5 Greatest American Straight-Six Engines Ever Mass Produced
28 Feb 2024, 00:26 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / Though never as powerful as the V8s found in muscle cars, US manufacturers have built some legendary straight-sixes throughout the years
Mark IV LS6 454: A Look Back at One of the Muscle Car Golden Age's Most Impressive V8s
26 Feb 2024, 17:37 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / At the height of the muscle car horsepower wars, Chevrolet introduced the largest big-block V8 ever fitted into one of its production cars
Chevy L88 427: A Look Back at the C2 and C3 Corvette's Mythical Big-Block V8
18 Dec 2023, 16:10 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / Introduced in 1967, the L88 was race engine that found its way into the street-legal Corvette, becoming one of America's most legendary V8s
5 Best High-Performance V6 Engines Ever Fitted Into Production Cars
17 Dec 2023, 10:04 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / Though generally underrated, the V6 configuration has shown that it could result in legendary engines, like these five high-performance masterpieces
5 Legendary Mass-Produced Hemi Engines That Were Not Built by Chrysler
29 Nov 2023, 17:06 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / The HEMI moniker is famous world wide thanks to the series of Chrysler V8s, but those weren't the only legendary engines with hemispherical combustion chambers
Turbo-Rocket V8: Remembering the Automotive World's First Mass-Produced, Turbocharged V8
27 Nov 2023, 11:34 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / For gearheads, the 1960s is the decade when muscle cars were born in the US, but it's also when the first mass-produced turbo engines were introduced in cars
BMW S50 EU-Spec: The M3's First Six-Cylinder, an Iconic Engine That the US Couldn't Have
20 Nov 2023, 11:50 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / A worthy six-cylinder successor to the E30 M3's mighty S14, the S50 was a legendary BMW M engine that US buyers couldn't have
5 Greatest European V8 Engines Ever Mass-Produced
20 Oct 2023, 21:05 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / Though American-built V8 are far more popular, the Old Continent's premier manufacturers have also built some iconic V8s
Mopar Max Wedge: The Forgotten Orange Monster That Helped Kick-Start the Muscle Car Craze
26 Sep 2023, 12:12 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / Overshadowed by the 426 HEMI, the legendary Max Wedge was Mopar's go-to performance engine during the first part of the 1960s
Coyote V8: The Evolution of the Iconic V8 That Made the Ford Mustang Great Again
21 Aug 2023, 15:08 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / In service since 2010 and, hopefully, for years to come, the Coyote engine has transformed the modern Mustang into a thoroughbred muscle car, becoming a V8 icon
5 Fastest Muscle Cars Powered by Ford's Iconic 428 Cobra Jet
19 Aug 2023, 10:31 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / Ford's trusty big block was one of the company's well-respected engine during the original muscle car era, powering epic models such as these five
American Eight Cylinder Legend: Remembering the 95-Year-Old Duesenberg J Straight-Eight
14 Aug 2023, 12:25 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / This venerable straight-eight was an impressive piece of engineering that introduced the notion of high-performance to American road cars
Remembering the Quirky Yet Legendary Y-block, Ford's First OHV V8
26 Jul 2023, 13:28 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / Introduced in 1954, the Y-block became the heart of Ford and Mercury models for the next decade, and continues to fascinate hotrodders to this day
Ford Indy DOHC V8: Remembering One of America's Craziest Competition Engines
21 Jul 2023, 21:17 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / Whether naturally-aspirated or turbocharged, Ford's Indy V8 was a gorgeous and extremely successful race engine that dominated the Indy 500
1949 Cadillac OHV V8: The Engineering Marvel That Revolutionized the Industry
23 Jun 2023, 20:25 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / More than seven decades ago, Cadillac introduced its first OHV V8 which became an engineering milestone of the American automotive industry
Ford's 427 Le Mans: The V8 That Helped the GT40 Dominate the World's Most Famous Race
5 Jun 2023, 14:44 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / At the heart of the Le Mans-winning GT40 Mk II and MK IV, this gargantuan V8 from the golden era of muscle cars is the most decorated American race engine
Lightweight Legend: A Look Back at Buick's Revolutionary 1961 All-Aluminum V8
29 May 2023, 15:08 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / Aluminum block engines are common place today, but the unit that had the biggest impact on their development was revolutionary V8 introduced by Buick in 1961
5.9-Liter Cummins: The Evolution of America's Most Reliable and Tunable Diesel Engine
15 May 2023, 22:06 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / In a world of gas-guzzling V8s, the 5.9-liter Cummins turbocharged inline-six diesel dared to be different and became a legend
5 Awesome 4-Cylinder Engines With Great Tuning Potential
7 May 2023, 07:08 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / These engineering masterpieces prove that, with a a few upgrades you can extract a healthy amount of power out of a small, four-cylinder engine
SRT Demon 170's 1,025-HP HEMI: The Most Outrageous V8 Ever Fitted into A Muscle Car
14 Apr 2023, 14:44 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / Yes, it can reach that figure when fed E85 fuel, but even if it runs on premium gas, the insane 6.2-liter HEMI is still the most powerful muscle car engine ever