In the 2000s, V8 engines were very much in vogue. And you could also have your V8 in a very practical saloon format, with ...

When automakers are considering building a new car, one of the first engineering decisions they need to make is the orientation of the engine in the engine bay: transverse or horizontal. The ...

Most automakers around the world agree: the V8 engine is a fine thing for rear-wheel-drive and all-wheel-drive applications. GM, though, never quite agreed on that point, building a whole rash of nose ...

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Since establishing the luxury marque in 1989, Toyota has dropped a wide spectrum of V8 engines into Lexus engine bays. As a matter of fact, the very first Lexus model, the LS 400, came standard with a ...

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Discussing which engine is better between a straight-six and a V8 is something that feels like a plotline from The Fast and the Furious, if the franchise actually cared about cars. It’s “import versus ...

Its roots can be traced way back to the '50s.