While many classic car manufacturers had two separate engine sizes -- small blocks and big blocks -- Pontiac only had a single V8 platform.

Explore 10 of the biggest American production engines ever made, from a 1931 V16 to a 600-hp V10, with key specs and history.

There are many ways that automakers, particularly American ones, categorize the V8 engines they produce. They can essentially be put into one of two categories: big-block engines and small-block ...

The U.S. is known as the land of excess for many reasons. Take the automotive landscape, for example. You have big SUVs and even bigger engines. However, there was a time when engines in American cars ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

An aluminum Cragar adaptor housing was used to make the hookup between the T-Bird transmission and the'57Chrysler engine. Adaptor also allows starter motor to be moved to the right side where it will ...

Bench racing and jaw-boning had set us up with a lofty goal for our buddy Marko "The Rooster" and his 340 small-block. What started out as idle talk about building a 500-horse 340 while road tripping ...

Aston Martin's DBS successor will feature a new V-12 engine because it's what its customers want. So said Alex Long, the automaker's head of product and marketing strategy, in a recent interview with ...

Think of a Harley-Davidson powerplant, and chances are that some iteration of the company's big V-twin engines will come to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY(WBRE/WYOU) — American history has taken its place at Steamtown in Scranton and has done so in Epic ...