Knowing that building a Slant Six to the power of even a mild V-8 would compromise reliability and cost a significant amount of money, we decided it just made sense to swap a V-8 into our A-Body.

Two of the original muscle car era's most exciting homologation specials, these E-body twins became muscle car icons despite not hiding large-displacement V8s inside their engine bays. The 1970 model ...

After two generations on the A-body platform, the Plymouth Barracuda switched to E-body underpinnings in 1970. The overhaul also introduced a sportier design and added Chrysler's top big-block V8 ...

According to Chrysler, more than three million 383s and million 440s were produced between 1959 and 1978, when big-block production ended. Chevy seems to pump out that many small-blocks in a year.

Chrysler's Plymouth division put a surprisingly long list of muscle cars on the road during the era's peak in the 1960s and early '70s, including a few models that deserve more attention than they get ...

Engine development has taken thousands of small steps from the 1850s single-cylinder engine used by Carl Benz in the Patent Motorwagen to the 1,600-hp W16 in the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport. V8 engines ...