Cars are great and all, but there’s no getting around the fact that piloting a 4,000-pound hunk of metal can be dangerous. Both to people in other cars, as well as people who aren’t in cars. Unfortunately for pedestrians in the U.S., while other developed countries continue to get safer, the U.S. continues to get more…
American car companies may have spoiled us into thinking that all V8s should be huge with tons of power and gobs of torque. From Dodge and their Hellcats to GM and its Big and Small Block V8s, its ingrained in us. But V8s haven’t all been massive, some of them came in displacements you’d associate with a 4-cylinder.
Over the years, engine covers have become an important design element of any car’s engine bay. And it seems the more expensive or premium the model, the more elaborate the engine cover. Lift the hood on any Lexus, BMW or Mercedes and you won’t see the engine. Instead, you’re met with a sea of neat, clean plastic,…