2008 Challenger SRT8 vs. Mustang Bullitt From the Archive: The latest, retro-styled motor city muscle cars duke it out on the streets of Detroit. For those who missed 1968 the first time around, not to worry: The sequel is way better. We were there—this journal and your enduring correspondent—back when Bullitt was a movie, not a Mustang. About a year later [ C/D, November 1969], we put the original Dodge Challenger R/T Hemi through its test-track paces, too. Fun? Yeah. Gas was thirty-some cents a gallon, and our hormones were raging. That said, those were the carburetor days, and we’d never go back.