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 ...

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 ...

After developing the 287, Pontiac engineers developed the engine to 370 cubic inches, giving this new engine the name Tempest 395-A. Equipped in the 1958 Chieftain, the Tempest 395-A could deliver ...

A big horsepower number is a great selling point for a performance vehicle, because it wows buyers, but when it comes to quick acceleration, the torque rating is more important. Cars that can ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It's a muscle car with a twist: the new Dodge Charger Daytona is fully electric. And it has the primary muscle car ingredient - power. "We didn't set out to design an EV first.