The V8 could be the most versatile performance car engine configuration, powering everything from Ferrari supercars to Ford ...

Before being retired in the early 2000s, the old Buick motor got to be as big as 305 ci with British sports car maker TVR.

It deployed classic TVR elements: a light body, a Rover V8 up front, rear-wheel drive, a manual transmission, and not much else. The safety feature was the car's brakes, since ABS, airbags ...

The rest is history, with the likes of TVR and Marcos stretching it beyond ... Antiquity eventually caught up with the Rover V8, its low efficiency and relatively low output impressive by the ...