V-shaped engines like the V6 and V8 power lots of cars, but you probably never think about what, exactly, that V angle is.

In 1932, Henry Ford, the acknowledged all-time master of automotive mass production, dealt his competitors a severe blow and elevated the standard of middle-class transportation by introducing his new ...

For decades, Chrysler has had something of a stranglehold on the market when it comes to hemispherical engines. These are engines where the combustion chamber is shaped like a hemisphere, though the ...

Pontiac’s Ram Air V program sits at the intersection of factory engineering and underground legend, a racing engine that was fully real yet never officially reached the showroom. Conceived as the ...

Not every great idea nails it on the first try. Henry Ford designed and built nine vehicles before perfecting his formula with the Model T, and the Corvette didn’t even offer a V-8 engine until its ...