The Cadillac 500 V8 arrived at the height of America’s big‑car era, yet even in that context it was an outlier, a powerplant so outsized that it still sounds like a misprint. It was not just large in ...

The Cadillac 500 V8 is so interesting, in part, because it began to see a massive reduction in power almost immediately after ...

The malaise era. That decade-long stretch of time following the 1973 Oil Crisis, when cars were legally mandated to suck, claimed a lot of casualties and produced a lot of stuff nobody wanted to drive ...