Modular engines have their defenders and detractors, but nearly everyone agrees it wouldn't hurt if the things displaced a few more inches. Size matters and all that, and with only 281 ci of working ...

The Ford Mustang faced an identity crisis when it made the switch from its time-tested overhead-valve 5.0-liter V-8 to an entirely new DOHC “modular” eight-cylinder engine family in the mid-1990s.

When General Motors rolled out the LS, the Ford Motor Company found itself between a rock and a hard place. Chevy squeezed out 345 hp and 350 lb-ft (475 Nm) from the LS1 of the 1997 model year ...

Volvo once created an engine known as the redblock. Its production didn't continue into the 2000s, but it's still regarded as a fantastic engine today.