When Carl Benz built what is regarded as the world’s first car, the Patent Motorwagen, he powered it with a single-cylinder engine that produced less than one horsepower. More than a century’s worth of evolution since then has brought us monsters like the nearly 1,000-horsepower marvel that is the Bugatti W16. Most engines fall somewhere between those two extremes, with four, six, and eight-cylinder configurations being the most common.  V8 engines powered many of the muscle cars of the 1960s and early
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