Photo: Dodge V10 engines aren’t particularly common in road cars, but there was a time when two of America’s Big Three automakers engineered V10s to replace big block V8s in their heavy duty truck platforms. Even before the Volkswagen Group, BMW, and Lexus built their outstanding V10 performance engines, America was already mass-producing producing 10-cylinder … Read more
You’re ready for summer, aren’t you? Not quite yet, because you don’t have this totally buck-ass wild Dodge Viper convertible in your garage. If you had to make a list of all the things you wanted for a perfect summer, surely it would include a 740-horsepower naturally-aspirated 8.3-liter V10 engine, a manual transmission, a convertible … Read more
Toyota’s upmarket brand Lexus has always been focused on innovative engineering concepts, though not typically in the service of speed. The pocket protector dorks at the company usually spend their efforts trying to find a way to make cars quieter or softer, but for a short time from 2010 to 2012, those engineers assembled 500 … Read more
