The Windsor engine is a 90-degree small-block V8 from Ford Motor Company. It was introduced in 1962, replacing the old Ford Y-block engine. Though not all of the engines in this family were produced at the Windsor, Ontario engine plant (all Ford small blocks came from Cleveland, Ohio until 1966), the name stuck. The mid-sized 335 "Cleveland" V8, introduced in 1970, was to replace the larger Windsors, but this design ended up outliving its replacement. In 1991, the Windsor engine began to be p...

The Leyland P76 was a large car produced by Leyland Australia, the Australian subsidiary of British Leyland. It was intended to provide the company with a genuine rival to large local models like the Ford Falcon, the Holden Kingswood, and the Chrysler Valiant.Prior to P76, Leyland Australia and its antecedent BMC (Australia) had not fielded a direct competitor in this market sector, which dominated the Australian car market. P76 was intended to provide that competitor.Previously, BMC and Leyl...

General Motors has announced that it plans to pursue the sale of its Nexteer Automotive business.

OSWEGO — Local racer Jeff Abold will be part of the festivities when racing legend Mario Andretti visits Oswego on Friday.

The Model B was a new Ford automobile produced in model year 1932. It was a much updated version of the Model A and was replaced by the 1935 Ford Model 48. Strictly speaking the Model B was a four-cylinder car with a Ford Model A engine, but it was at this time that Ford began producing a very similar car with Ford's new Flathead V8 engine. The V8 car was marketed as a Model 18, though it is commonly called the Ford V-8 today, and was virtually indistinguishable from the Model B. Until this t...

IRVINE, Calif., June 25 -- Kia Motors America (KMA) today announced an exclusive automotive partnership with the 2009 Vans Warped Tour(R) for the second consecutive year, which includes hosting and sponsoring on-site events and activities during each tour stop.

Penske will offer 5.75 million in common shares of its automotive retail division in a secondary offer, the company said Friday.

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A Chrysler Hemi engine, known by the trademark Hemi, is an internal combustion engine built by Chrysler that utilizes a hemispherical combustion chamber. Chrysler built three generations of hemi engines for automobiles: the first (known as the Chrysler FirePower engine) in the 1950s, the second from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s, and the third in the early 2000s.A hemispherical (i.e., bowl-shaped) combustion chamber allows the valves of a two valve-per-cylinder engine to be angled rathe...

Fred Mueller Automotive will once again host Automotive Career Awareness Night January 22.