- a variation of V-eight.
V-8
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V-8's
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The company is spending billions to increase production of its biggest, priciest vehicles, while rolling out V-8 engines, new pickups and high-end Cadillacs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
This newspaper recently detailed Stellantis’s bringing back Hemi V-8 engines for its Ram trucks because customers demanded it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday it was launching the probe into vehicles equipped with a particular GM V-8 engine that had already been the subject of an earlier recall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The “Hurricane,” a turbocharged six-cylinder engine, would replace an archaic gas-guzzling V-8 that hadn’t changed much in nearly 15 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
He’d buy a brand new V-8 car every year hut he couldn’t see the logic in buying new clothes when you got cheap hand-me-downs fior free.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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
The last of four new Ford V-8's went out at 360 miles.
From Time Magazine Archive
To keep up with Chevrolet's new V-8 engine, Ford has boosted its own V-8's horsepower from 130 to 162, with optional carburetors and dual exhausts to push it to 182.
From Time Magazine Archive
It weighs only 1,000 pounds, in contrast to a Ford V-8's 3,000 pounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
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