AMC tended to keep things simple with its range of V8 muscle car engines, only offering differing sizes built on the same block throughout its relatively short history. It preferred to develop ...

Pontiac's 455 ci V8 engine was its largest ever, ideal for muscle cars in the 1970s for torque and lower emissions. The 421 ...

During the era when there was no replacement for displacement, these 5 ponies packed some ridiculously large big-block V8s ...

The Road Runner — named for the famous bird from "Looney Tunes" — was a hit for Plymouth in the late 60s and early 70s. However, as the muscle car era wound down, so too did the Road Runner. Its final ...

Chevy's Vortec 8100 — AKA the L18, AKA the Vortec 8.1 — was the last of The General's big block V8s, a line of engines that traced its lineage clear back to the fire-breathing muscle cars of ...

The 1970s were a big decade for muscle cars, which dominated the quarter mile with their aerodynamic designs and large, powerful engines. Muscle cars proved their worth by speeding down the track ...

A big horsepower number is a great selling point ... That's the most number of ponies ever squeezed out an N/A muscle car engine, but its 412 pound-feet of torque falls short of the record.

As the classic muscle car era developed ... The 1958 W-Series big-block V-8 really was a monster, with a dry weight of nearly 700 pounds. The engine block was made of cast iron, had a bore ...

It was a six-cylinder engine meant to be powerful enough to ... people just didn't want big muscle cars anymore and GM was forced to downsize just to be able to stay on the market.

But recently, hints at such an engine hasn't been ruled out at some point. So, the Dodge V8 muscle car may just be on hiatus. In the meantime, if a muscle car with electric power sounds intriguing ...