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- The first known V8 was the Antoinette, designed by Léon Levavasseur, and built in 1904 by the French Antoinette company for use in speedboat racing, cars, and later, airplanes.
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BMW's first V8 engine was the 1954–1965 BMW OHV V8 engine, a petrol engine with overhead valves and all-aluminum construction. The company resumed production of V8 engines in 1992 with the BMW M60 aluminum double overhead camshaft engine, and V8 engines have remained in production until today.
Sep 14, 2022 · One of the first production automobile V8s was introduced in the US in 1914 by Cadillac, a division of General Motors, which sold 13,000 of the 5.4-liter (330 cu in) L-head engines in its first...
Frenchman Leon Levavasseur was a 39-year-old inventor in 1902 when he took out a patent for the first V-8 engine he called the Antoinette. The V8 since then has become the most reliable and efficient internal combustion engine to power automobiles and to see extensive use in power boats and early aircraft.
The Cadillac V8 engine is credited as the first mass-produced V8, and when Ford Motor Company acquired rival luxury marque Lincoln in 1922, it was already producing a flathead V8 with fork and blade connecting rods which remained in production after Ford took over until 1932.
Although the Ford V-8 was not the first production V-8 in automotive history, it was the first compact (because of the V alignment of the eight cylinders) and powerful engine that was available to the general auto buying audience.
Apr 23, 2018 · Mercedes-Benz was developing the V8 it had introduced in the 1960s, one result of which was the 450 SEL 6.9 saloon with its extraordinary thrust, while in Italy Ferrari approached the V8 idea very differently for its 308 by using a 'flat' crankshaft.
Aug 11, 2022 · The story of the V8 engine begins with the development of the internal combustion engine itself. The first successful two-stroke engine was invented by Sir Dougald Clerk in 1891, while Nikolaus Otto produced the first four-stroke “gasoline” engine in Germany in 1876.
