V-8

Most car enthusiasts are well aware that a project car comes with a whole lot of baggage, namely in picking and sourcing appropriate parts. The engine is especially important, and depending on the individual's goals, making a lot of horsepower can get really expensive, really quickly. Enter Katech...

Tampering with vintage Ferraris is seen as a big no-no to many gearheads, but one gearhead said to hell with tradition. This 1963 Ferrari 250 GTE surfaced about two years ago and made a splash with its 302 cubic-inch Chevrolet V-8 under the hood. Now, it's up for sale. The ChevFerrari surfaced for...

This nitro-methane-powered hot rod is no toy.

The Cadillac CTS-V is a favorite of tuners.

This pro-stock Ford racing engine produces nearly 2,000 horsepower without forced induction.

Even though the first Corvettes started with the Blue Flame in-line six-cylinder engine as the standard powerplant, the V-8, offered since 1955, has become the car's iconic means of motivation. Today, as part of the car's ongoing 60th anniversary celebrations, GM has released a short history of the...

Heresy it may be, but we don't care. Not even a little bit. This (apparently Southern) gentleman with an LS7-powered 911 Carrera is our newest hero. As Hooniverse (via VWVortex's The Car Lounge) points out, the LS7 is not only more powerful and more American than the Porsche flat-six it replaced...

Infiniti is helping to restore a classic Chris Craft Holiday speedboat, to be powered by the 5.6-liter V-8 from an Infiniti QX56.

In honor of the 100-millionth small-block Chevrolet V-8, which just rolled off the lines, we thought we'd bring you a photographic visit to the plant that built it. In July 2010, Chevy announced it would offer a new program to buyers of its Corvette sports car. Not only could they watch their very...

The S6, S7 and S8 will all feature a new V-8 engine that Audi has detailed ahead of the Frankfurt Auto Show. The engine will also be featured in the Bentley Continental GT.

The Endora SC-1, based on the Chevrolet Corvette, is now available for order, with production to start in the near future.

It's not really car-related, but since it uses the 5.6-liter V-8 from the Infiniti QX56, we find the company's plan to build a boat around the big engine pretty interesting. So far, Infiniti has done little more than reveal it's working on the project--but there's some special stuff in store...

Last year Mercedes-Benz started replacing its naturally-aspirated 5.5-liter V-8 engine in high-end models like the CL550 with a more powerful, yet more efficient, twin-turbocharged 4.6-liter unit. The new engine delivers up to 32 percent more power than the one it replaces yet it’s 20 percent...

Earlier this week we brought you the first details about Lotus’ new in-house developed V-8 engine, which is set to appear in the upcoming Esprit supercar as well as several other new models currently in development at the automaker’s Hethel facility in the UK. Here we divulged that the...

We’ve known for some time that Lotus was working on a new V-8 engine for its upcoming Esprit supercar, even word that the automaker was pulling funding from other projects to ensure that both the new engine and the supercars that it will eventually power are truly world class. Now the first...

If you’ve got 5w 30 coursing through your veins like we do, that question posed in the title may be along the lines of “would you like to keep breathing?” Of course the answer is going to be yes, and General Motors is giving you the opportunity to win the ultimate car enthusiast...

The 2013 Lotus Esprit is to be the first of a new-generation of luxurious sports cars from one of the most renowned performance marques in the industry. Styled under the watchful eye of former Ferrari designer Donato Coco, the new Esprit has already been previewed in concept form and is destined to...

Update: The official details on the 2012 BMW M5 are out. Click here to view our latest post. Though it isn’t set to make its official world debut until this September’s 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, the new 2012 BMW M5 has hit the Internet by way of a leaked report and is already starting...

Going a long way towards confirming previous reports that a third-pedal option would be offered on the 2012 BMW M5, at least in the U.S., this latest image reveals that BMW is testing prototypes on local soil fitted with a conventional manual transmission. The prototype was spotted in Los Angeles...

The stunning 2012 Jaguar XKR-S is still doing the rounds of auto show appearances ahead of an official showroom debut later in the year, but its time in the limelight may not last that long as there’s word that several other high-performance ‘R-S’ Jags are in the works. A Jaguar...