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V8

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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Years and years ago, Pamela Adlon, the actor and co-creator of “Better Things,” had to trade a Fox Body Ford Mustang with a V8 engine for a white minivan.

A V8, with or without a turbo, and hybrid in the region of 20-30% seems like a reasonable-guess possible compromise as things stand.

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Alonso won one of his two titles driving a V10 and one driving a V8, and when he demonstrated his 2005 Renault at the 2020 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix he clearly had a lot of fun chucking the car around.

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"I love the the sound of the V8, V10, and, you know, we all experience that, and it's probably one of the best memories I have from Formula 1 and one of the best cars that I drove," Alonso said.

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Perhaps manufacturers would agree to a different, bigger engine - a V8, for example - with a turbo and some hybrid element, but not as much as the 50% of total power planned for next year.

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