Some small V8s offered great performance for their day, such as the 2.0-liter V8 in the Ferrari 208, for example. Some of ...

Ferrari downsized its V8 engine to avoid high taxation, resulting in the creation of the small-engine 208 GT4 sports car. The 208 GT4 featured a 2.0-liter V8 engine, making it the smallest ...

The story of the first car to run on a V8 engine goes back to 1905. In Great Britain, engineers working under the Rolls-Royce banner decided to try out the V8 on only a small handful of cars.

The V8 was the go to engine for everything except the smallest of cars. For a few decades in the middle of the twentieth century, the eight-cylinder burble was the soundtrack of highways and ...

Which brings us to the LT4 and LT5, the most impressive and insane small-block V-8s GM ever blessed a performance car with. In 2015, GM took their 6.2-liter V-8 small-block LT-1 and added a 1.7 ...

The Corvette's new LT1 V8 engine is ... engine requirements for a production car and a race car are remarkably similar," said Jordan Lee, Small Block chief engineer and program manager.

The Ariel Atom V8 is bonkers. 500bhp in a car that weighs 550kg, giving a power to weight ratio of over 900bhp per ton and 0-60mph in a claimed 2.3sec. According to Ariel boss Simon Saunders ...