![]() Chrysler’s current third-generation Hemi V8 engines are sold under the classic name, but use a clean-sheet design from 2003. Chevrolet’s current LS-based V8 design debuted in 1995, but is a direct descendent of the marque’s new-for-1955 small-block. The Bentley L Series V8 was produced, in growing displacements culminating with 6.75 liters, from 1959 until June of 2020. ![]() Rather interestingly, after a 20-year hiatus, Ford is jumping back into the over-head valve game with its very own 7.3-liter Godzilla big block. These include the Chevrolet LS-based small block V8, which traces its roots directly back to 1955, and the Chrysler Hemi, which is still going strong in everything from the Jeep Grand Cherokee to the Dodge Hellcat and Demon. Right now, General Motors and Fiat-Chrysler still manufacture and sell vehicles with pushrod V8 engines. The ultra-luxury British marque-which is actually owned by Volkswagen-isn’t the only one still using a pushrod V8 engine though. It’s hard to believe Bentley was still using a pushrod V8 in the Mulsanne, which starts at $310,800 ($342,000 for the Speed version) for the 2020 model year, but it’s the truth. But even with an archaic design that had been massaged and tweaked over the years to conform with modern power and emission requirements, the L Series earned the respect of the automotive community. In today’s world of quad-cam, multi-valve engines paired with direct fuel injection, turbocharging, and some form of drivetrain electrification, the overhead-valve Bentley V8 was a dinosaur. Back in June, after 61 years in production, Bentley’s long-running L Series V8 was finally phased out. ![]()
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