It's V8 Month here at autoevolution. A month-long celebration of all the engines with eight cylinders arranged in a V-formation and all the wacky designs therein. That isn't just limited to things ...

Some of the world's most fascinating engineering designs didn't come from corporate design rooms with inspiration boards and cute espresso machines. Many came from impromptu sparks of genius, such as ...

The engines about which this paper is written are called 'Liberty.' They came in series of 4, 6, 8, and 12 cylinders and were developed for interchangeability of parts and ease of production. Without ...

Click to open image viewer. The Liberty's purpose was American mass production of standard engine units when the U.S. entered World War I. Co-designed in a week in mid-1917 by Jesse Vincent of Packard ...