While V6 and V8 engines are often associated with muscle cars, the origin of the "V" orientation engine actually didn't start ...

Flat-plane V8 engines have attained mythical status among car enthusiasts. These engines put out prodigious amounts of ...

Yet, despite a deep, seven-decade history of building engines for everything from small lawn tools to aircraft, the marque has long been just as well-known for a common engine it didn't build: the V8.

Rather, they were designed to power other forms of transportation, like airplanes and motorcycles. One of the first planes to successfully implement the V8 engine was the Red Wing, also known as ...

when Chrysler developed a 2,500 horsepower V-16 engine with hemispherical combustion chambers for the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft. If this sounds like Captain America's beginning ...

We’ve been living in the golden age of internal combustion, especially when it comes to the V8. At no point in history have V-8 engines, and the cars and trucks they are in, been more powerful ...

Many turbocharged V8 engines hit hard, but none does so with the finesse or intensity of the Ferrari F154. It might lack the serrated edge and piercing noise of the best flat-plane Ferrari V8s ...

Homework is the key, and we reckon the V8 offers the ideal blend of availability ... wish (although it has to be said, the flat-plane-crank engine was sonically disappointing).

Rather than an American muscle car, the roar of a V8 was first heard in an aircraft dubbed the "L'Aeroplane de Villotran," and although the experimental craft was a failure, the engine proved to ...