When cars were first invented, they were little more than what they were initially called: horseless carriages. Designers simply took an existing design that was commonly available and familiar to their target audience and inserted an internal combustion engine into it. Looking at old pictures of these first models you can see a certain innocent charm to them, as if the people designing and building them had no idea about where these new inventions were going to go, and how they would revolutionize America.
And for a while, it worked. The early engines had only a few horsepower, and thus speeds and performance of the mechanical engines were more or less identical to animal power they replaced. Unfortunately, as technology progressed, many carmakers failed to anticipate the changes new power plants would have on the frames they put them in, and accidents began to occur.
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Almost twenty years ago I became very angry, mostly frustrated. I owned, operated and jacked of all trades a trucking company. When you are paying (high at that time) fuel, oil, grease and parts for a bunch of trucks, you yell, kick and scream. Then you pay the bills.
I went one step further. I listed everything which would make a perfect engine.
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Set to replace the current Triton V8 engine currently powering Ford trucks today, the Boss 6.2 liter engine is the newest project for Ford Motor Company. The all new large displacement V8 engine was put on hold in early 2005 but is being brought back in hopes of providing serious competition for the Larger Dodge Hemi and General Motors 7.0 liter Vortec engine. The hope is that the new Boss engine will infuse the sluggish Ford Truck market with some seriously needed new, vibrant blood.
Ford showed off its latest design at the 2008 SEMA show. The engine will make its debut appearance in 2010 in the F-150 SVT Raptor. Originally dubbed the Hurricane, the name was changed to the Boss after Hurricane Katrina devastated much of the Louisiana and Mississippi coast line in August 2005.
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