The internal combustion engine, for all its mechanical sophistication, still runs on a 19th-century mechanical idea: pistons rising and falling, a crankshaft spinning, a steam-age architecture ...

One overbuilt V-8 that quietly racked up 250,000 or even 300,000 miles.

The V8 is not dead. Far from it, actually, specifically for General Motors. New reports recently surfaced, shedding some details on Detroit’s next generation of thundering ochos. Announced last year, ...