American Motors Corporation never had the budget or marketing muscle of its Detroit rivals, yet it managed to field some of the most deceptively light V8 performance cars of the late 1960s and early ...

The absence of a Hemi V8 in the new Dodge Charger is a bitter pill to swallow, no matter how good the 550-horsepower six-cylinder version is. One of the last true muscle cars has shed a big part of ...

Gearheads love to say that there's no replacement for displacement, but when you've got small engines more powerful than ...

While the new Charger has room for a Hemi, an additional V8 option needs make sense amongst other powertrains.

During the 1960s and 1970s, American carmakers devised several clever marketing strategies to promote their high-performance vehicles. Among those were cool names that gave the potent V8s at the heart ...

Though the late '60s and early '70s gave us some impressive production muscle cars, it also saw the introduction of these ...

Mercedes-AMG is set to unveil a spiritual successor to the legendary V8-powered C63 model, performing an extraordinary backflip with one of its most popular cars.

For more than 60 years, the American V8 engine has been more than a powerplant — it has been a cultural symbol. It fueled drag-strip legends, muscle-car mythology, movie icons, and generations of ...

HEMI engines have a long history in NASCAR and in muscle cars, but how did the two of them meet? Here's what made this racing ...

Buying a muscle car isn't the best way to remain on the downlow, but this classic Pontiac was built to address that.

Thomas has spent two years working in the auto journalism industry, contributing to a UK-based newspaper and writing for Euronewsweek. A full-time writer and lifelong engineering enthusiast, he now ...

In 1979, Wheels pitted the all-new V8-powered Falcon XD and Commodore VB manuals against each other in a battle to crown 'The King of the Hill'.