As is the case with any industry, fashions come in and go in the automotive world. Some trends become things of the past because of changing tastes, like those gold badges on the backs of Toyota ...

Decades before the V8 became synonymous with American engineering excellence, straight-eights ruled the road and the track. Out of these, arguably the greatest was the Duesenberg Model J engine. These ...

Concept cars exist in a segment of their own in the automotive world, simultaneously connected and yet separate from the ordinary production cars we see in our dealerships and on our roads. They are a ...

As for Chrysler, they went to great lengths to avoid the V8 fad at first, ensuring their much-beloved straight-eight engines lasted past the end of the war, even into the very early 1950s. This is the ...