What are the greatest engines ever to come out of Detroit?. While all of the big players made masterful motors during the horsepower wars, few had as big an impact as the Chevy big block and Dodge's's ...

The late 1960s and early 1970s were the golden age of muscle cars. Packed with charisma, outrageous power, and ostentatious design, they thrived during the muscle car wars of the mid-1960s. Chrysler ...

Introduced in 1970, the Chevy 454 — affectionately known as the Rat Motor – was the largest displacement Chevrolet engine to enter the big-block engine showdown of the muscle car era. At 454 cubic ...

Introduced in 1960 as a full-size car, the Dodge Polara was re-assigned to intermediate duty in 1962. That's when the nameplate entered the horsepower wars thanks to the iconic Max Wedge engine. In ...

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 '60s ...

Will joined the TopSpeed team over two and a half years ago, bringing his lifelong automotive passion, writing experience, and editorial expertise along with him. Whether classic or modern, American ...

Today, stick shifts are found in increasingly small numbers and, aside from the occasional Toyota Tacoma, found in small cars. But if you want something heavier to row gears in, might we interest you ...

The well-known names in classic muscle car performance were almost always associated with big-block engines, be they Ford Mustangs, Plymouth ’Cudas, or the Chevrolet Chevelle SS. What you may not know ...