There are people who will tell you that the roar of a V8 engine is one of the most beautiful sounds of all time — a point that's hard to argue with. The deep and thunderous growl of a powerful V8 ...

Not every great idea nails it on the first try. Henry Ford designed and built nine vehicles before perfecting his formula with the Model T, and the Corvette didn’t even offer a V-8 engine until its ...

In an internal combustion engine, air and fuel are injected into the cylinders, where ignitions occur in a controlled environment. The combustion cycles force pistons to move, and that movement is ...

Pontiac’s Ram Air V program sits at the intersection of factory engineering and underground legend, a racing engine that was fully real yet never officially reached the showroom. Conceived as the ...

If you were to pop open the hood of any random automobile on the planet, chances are extremely strong that you are going to see an inline engine — sometimes referred to as a straight engine — or a V ...

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 ...