The 1973 oil crisis cannot be understated in how it affected how car companies wanted to develop their engines. With fuel prices skyrocketing, the mid-to-late 1970s was filled with automakers attempting to figure out how to maximize their engines’ fuel efficiency along with making these engines lighter weight.  At the time, Ford’s mid-size cars and smaller pickup trucks were being powered by a V8 engine, which was simply too much of a burden to keep around. So, in 1977,
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