- a variation of V-eight.
V-8
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And software can make it feel as if the driver is controlling a V-8 engine.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Primm Valley, Whiskey Pete’s and Buffalo Bill’s all hosted at one time the famed Bonnie and Clyde V-8 Ford riddled with more than 100 bullets in 1934.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
Instead, those plants will build gas-powered trucks and V-8 engines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
The company has two engine plants in Canada that build V-8 motors for F-series and Super Duty pickups assembled in the United States.
From Reuters ● Sep. 19, 2023
It was an old Ford Model A, nothing like the slick Ford Model 730 Deluxe V-8 sedan.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
The guy who won the unlimited fuel class drove a massive machine powered by four blown hemi V-8’s making in excess of 3,000 horsepower.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2019
Horsepower is up a bit to 425, from 414, while torque is 406 pound-feet, a sharp increase from the old V-8's 295 pound-feet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2015
I've grumbled over BMW's recent designs, but the 645Ci quickly ingratiates itself with a pleasing silhouette and its 4.4-liter V-8's frisky 325 horses.
From Time Magazine Archive
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One day the elder Ford was driven in one of his V-8's 35 mi. to Marquette to telephone Edsel.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The last of four new Ford V-8's went out at 360 miles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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