What's the difference between inline-eight and V8 engines?

While you might already be familiar with the classic V8 engine, there were actually inline-eight engines once upon a time too ...
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Project Car Hell, Cheap Straight Eight Edition: Buick Or Packard?

Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! You know what's missing from your grim, purposeless life? Straight ...
autoevolution

Hellcat of the '40s: The True Story of the Chrysler Spitfire Straight-Eight

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 ...
autoevolution

Straight-8 Orphan: This 1954 Packard Clipper Panama Marked the End of an Era

It's 2026, and you may not know it, but it's been exactly 70 years since the last true Packard automobile rolled off the assembly line. It happened in June 1956, and the said car was a Patrician ...
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BMW's M Performance Cars Won't Abandon Their Iconic Inline-Sixes and V-8 Engines

The inline-six and V-8 engines used by BMW's M performance cars are safe for the time being, according to Autocar. The U.K. publication spoke with the head of the M division, Frank van Meel, who said ...