R.I.P. Ford V8 1932 - 2017

[motormatt]

The whole point of a V8 is the fact that it's a V8. Plain and simple.

 

In my eyes most cars have become boring over engineered appliances with no soul. Just look at the original golf GTi and compare it to the new golf GTi. Steel wheels vs alloys, 1.6 vs 2.0 turbocharged, 110bhp vs 200+

I'd take the Mk1 anyday of the week simply because it has soul.

[oman5]

That might be dangerous though, imagine all the little kids running out into the road everywhere you go... (Do ice cream vans playing hideously distorted melodies still even exist?)It's an idea though, a big pa speaker playing engine noises could keep everyone happy, especially if the pitch & volume was linked to engine speed and loud pedal. It could even have a menu with alternative noises:Ford V8Chevvy V8MerlinWright CycloneHarley Davidson (potato potato potato...)F-15Tie fighterMilk float, complete with chinking bottlesVW air-cooledLawnmowerWe should patent this now, before someone else thinks of it (yeah, right)(sorry, feeling a bit odd today...)

1976 Chrysler alpine tappets

Ford cortina mk3 camshaft rattle

Maestro Perkins diesel

Napier deltic

Detroit diesel 8v92

Commer Ts3

Cummins 14 litre through a straight pipe (with jake brake sound on breaking)

Scania 14 litre V8 with twin eminox stacks

Metro 1.0 Hle gearbox whine

This idea is kind of already around with these things-

http://www.soundracer.se/?p=98

I've got one, they do actually work! The v8 muscle car sound comes through the stereo speakers, and rises and falls along with the engine.

[Junkman]

Of all the septic V8s ever made, the Fords were the best sounding of the bunch.

Not the most technically advanced, because they were the big Cadillacs of the Seventies. But they were the best sounding ones.

Add to this, that with any Ford V8 powered car, and I mean any, you could boil the rear hides without the engine as much as sounding stressed.

And yes, this includes the Rover 75 V8 and the '78 Country Squire, of all things rotten.

That all this is going to be relegated to history, not by popular demand, but by government interference, is not only sad, but frightening news.

They are going to launch a new GT40. One of the hallmarks of half a century of GT40 history, is its V8 power.

Now, the upcoming GT40 will be V6 powered.

 

Welcome to The Fourth Reich.

 

And don't give me this modern is better horseshit.

[steve_earwig]

This idea is kind of already around with these things-

http://www.soundracer.se/?p=98

I've got one, they do actually work! The v8 muscle car sound comes through the stereo speakers, and rises and falls along with the engine.

Dammit, fame and fortune elude me once again

[warren t claim]

On the plus side Ford are importing the new Mustang into the UK in RHD form with the full fat V8 as well as the Ecoboost 4 pot.

[OwdChina]

http://refreshingnews99.blogspot.in/2015/01/americas-best-selling-cars-and-trucks.html

[dieselnutjob]

the manufacturers should agree on a standard removable battery pack.

When your battery is nearly flat you would pull into the petrol station and park over a special bay

there would be a robot under the bay which would remove your flat battery and plug in a fully charged one

you would then pay for the difference in energy between the new one and the old one, and drive off

when you are at home or work or whatever you could also plug it in thus reducing the number of visits to the petrol station if you wanted

you wouldn't need to own the battery packs, you would just be renting/using one like calor gas bottles

the EU could define all of the standards and stuff so that all cars would take the same battery pack

[Junkman]

When a car has batteries other than one 12V starter battery, you should avoid it like bedbugs.

If your government wants you to buy cars with batteries other than the one 12V starter battery, you should start a revolution.

Regarding the EU, vote UKIP.

Now go and buy something Ford V8 powered, before it is too late. Once it became illegal, you'll regret every inch you didn't drive it.

 

The Rover 75 V8 is one of the very few newfangled things, that make me want to be richer than I am.

[twosmoke300]

oman5 , oooo a jake brake , now thats a sound !

 

prob a bit specialist for here but a fiat 110/90 turbo tractor with a straight stack off the turbo . hmmm

[steve_earwig]

the manufacturers should agree on a standard removable battery pack.

When your battery is nearly flat you would pull into the petrol station and park over a special bay

there would be a robot under the bay which would remove your flat battery and plug in a fully charged one

you would then pay for the difference in energy between the new one and the old one, and drive off

when you are at home or work or whatever you could also plug it in thus reducing the number of visits to the petrol station if you wanted

you wouldn't need to own the battery packs, you would just be renting/using one like calor gas bottles

the EU could define all of the standards and stuff so that all cars would take the same battery pack

I'm sure the Japanese already tried this. Or was it the Chinese? I saw a video once, the car goes in on a conveyor track, the batteries get unhitched and lowered, then new ones get stuffed in and off it goes. It seems like an eminently practice idea, however, due to the amount of time it'd take to fully charge the batteries, wherever it was done would have to have a stack of the things which someone would have to pay up front for, which nobody would be interested in coughing up in these days of short-term gains and zero investment.

[AnthonyG]

Junk man, I don't get how the U.S. govt is banning V8s, given that GM/Chrysler/ze Germans/Lexus/Jaguar are still offering theirs. Even fapping Hyundai sells a V8 over there in the Genesis range.

 

It sounds a lot more like Ford can't arsed developing a new one as part of their 'one Ford' policy which may make financial sense but has already given us delights like the current Focus and the new Mondeo (even bigger than the 2007 one and been sold in the US for the last three years). I also predict death for the Lincoln brand now the RWD ones are no longer made.

[danthecapriman]

Here's my Ford V8, in 429ci (7.0 litre) big block flavour!

 

 

It sounds great. One of my favourite things to do is find a nice steep hill, roll down the windows and nail it up the hill! V8 symphony, who needs a radio!

 

 

Junk man, I don't get how the U.S. govt is banning V8s, given that GM/Chrysler/ze Germans/Lexus/Jaguar are still offering theirs. Even fapping Hyundai sells a V8 over there in the Genesis range.

It sounds a lot more like Ford can't arsed developing a new one as part of their 'one Ford' policy which may make financial sense but has already given us delights like the current Focus and the new Mondeo (even bigger than the 2007 one and been sold in the US for the last three years). I also predict death for the Lincoln brand now the RWD ones are no longer made.

It wouldn't surprise me if the Lincoln name was ditched, they have already killed off the Mercury name and Lincoln don't really serve much purpose now the big rwd stuff is ending production.

[scruff]

 

prob a bit specialist for here but a fiat 110/90 turbo tractor with a straight stack off the turbo . hmmm

 

Some would say the noise was the best bit...!

[twosmoke300]

Yes it was !

[mat_the_cat]

prob a bit specialist for here but a fiat 110/90 turbo tractor with a straight stack off the turbo . hmmm

 

That's the rest of my evening gone on YouTube then...

[cort16]

I've just been slavering over the 2015 gt 350 with a 500bhp v8 so it's not deed yet.

 

[cort16]

Dodge charger hell cat. 707bhp v8

 

[twosmoke300]

That's the rest of my evening gone on YouTube then...

Sound nice don't they?