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V8

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noun

  1. a car or internal-combustion engine having eight cylinders arranged in the form of a V

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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GM, for instance, is spending billions to upgrade factories that make lucrative pickups, SUVs and V8 engines.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

The last years of the V8 era, once refuelling was banned at the end of 2009, fluctuated between intensely competitive and, er, not.

From BBC May 19, 2026

In general, the manufacturers seem not opposed to the idea of changing the engines, nor to the principle of switching to a V8.

From BBC May 14, 2026

I met with the head chef of Disneyland, who was a Frenchman at the time, and I said we wanted to serve ugly crust pies at Flo’s V8 Cafe.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

The regent himself drove me to Engcobo in his majestic Ford V8.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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