Ford has designed some beastly engines across its history, but one stands out with its stratospherically-high redline.

Once upon a time, you didn’t have to spend an exorbitant amount of money to own something with a high-revving engine. Today, though, it’s a rarity. There are exactly zero cars priced under $100,000 ...

The Cadillac 500 V8 arrived at the height of America’s big‑car era, yet even in that context it was an outlier, a powerplant so outsized that it still sounds like a misprint. It was not just large in ...