Plenty of automakers have completely dropped the V8 in recent years, or they’ve begun phasing them out for turbo-fours, hybrids, V6s, and pretty much anything else you can come up with besides an eight-cylinder. So we’re looking back on a time, around the dawn of the last century, when V8s were not, apparently, regarded by the automotive industry as a piece of dated technology, but as the next big thing.
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