While Ford hasn't ... Of course, a V8 isn't mandatory -- it will apparently work with any longitudinally mounted internal combustion engine -- but the fact that the patent application sketches ...

The Ford Voodoo V8 is ... intake runners to keep the engine happy. The engine was eventually replaced in the Taurus SHO with a naturally aspirated 3.4-liter V8 in 1995. While the Voodoo V8 ...

Ford was granted a patent this week ... hood of the Mustang Hybrid coming next year. The patent, first spotted by Autoguide, depicts a V8 engine with two electric motors mounted to the sides ...

Ford has filed an interesting ... First noticed by Autoguide, the patent for a “twin motor drive system for [a] hybrid electric vehicle” features an undisclosed V8 engine and two electric ...

Though it shared parts ... The engine was also used in the one-off Ford SHO Ranger. One of the biggest engines ever produced by Ford, the 8.8-liter 534 cubic inch Super Duty V8 was developed ...

More importantly, Ford boasted that the engine would ... the SHO achieved an estimated 20 miles per gallon. For comparison, a 2010 AWD Dodge Charger RT with a 5.7-liter V8 that produced 368 ...

Featured under the hood of early-90s Ford Crown Victorias, the Mercury Grand Marquis, and the Lincoln Town Car was not a Taurus SHO engine ... part of 15 years, but the Ford 4.6 Modular V8 ...

Ford still brought out a new SHO and gave it a Yamaha engine. Except, instead of going with a V6, Ford chose to shove a 3.4-liter V8 under the hood. Of a front-wheel-drive family sedan.

Moreover, these new patents could be a way to keep the combustion engine going for longer than anyone thought it would. It'd be hard to sell the Ford Mustang without that legendary V8 under the ...