News & Car Culture

Welcome to The OnAllCylinders Winter Games

While most of the world turns its attention to Sochi, Russia for the next two weeks, everyone with a little 110-octane coursing through their veins (you and us) should keep our attention right here. Because… We are proud to introduce: The OnAllCylinders Winter Games. While NBC inundates us with stories dripping with sentimentality and American

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Interview: A Few Minutes with Hot Rodding Legend Gene Winfield

[portfolio_slideshow id=27903] Gene Winfield has been customizing vehicles for longer than most of us have been alive. He has customized vehicles for many TV shows, movies, and commercials. Some of the shows and movies that have featured Winfield’s vehicles include Blade Runner, Robocop, Batman, Get Smart, and Star Trek. While visiting the Cavalcade of Customs

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Sneak Preview: See All the Auto-Related Super Bowl XLVIII Commercials Now!

Are you ready for some football? The “Big Game” is still three days away, but many of the Super Bowl commercials have been strategically posted to YouTube. We took the liberty of finding all the automotive-related spots and have posted them conveniently below. We then took the further liberty of ranking them from first to worst—at least according to

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Top 10 Engines of All Time (#1): Small Block Chevrolet (Gen 1) 350

Editor’s Note: This series counts down the Top 10 engines of all time—see how the voting was done by reading our initial post. The small block Chevrolet changed the hot rodding world forever. It was the small block Chevrolet 265 that started the revolution back in 1955, but the Chevrolet 350 is the standard-bearer for this

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Top 10 Engines of All Time (#2): Chrysler 426 HEMI

Editor’s Note: This series counts down the Top 10 engines of all time—see how the voting was done by reading our initial post. “That thing got a HEMI in it?” Yes, your Top 10 Engines of All Time list does have a HEMI in it—and it’s the legendary Chrysler 426 HEMI “Elephant.” History Mopar is celebrating the

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Top 10 Engines of All Time (#3): General Motors LS1

Editor’s Note: This series counts down the Top 10 engines of all time—see how the voting was done by reading our initial post.   The LS engine family made up a huge number of votes for your 10 favorite engines of all time, but the LS1 proved to be the most popular. The 5.7-liter, 346 cubic-inch LS1

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NASCAR Changes Qualifying to Knock-Out Format

NASCAR qualifying may never be the same. The world’s premier stock car racing series will switch to “knock-out” qualifying for the 2014 Sprint Cup, Nationwide, and Camping World Truck Series. Single-car qualifying is no more. The new qualifying format will be similar to what you see in the IndyCar Series and Formula One. This new

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Top 10 Engines of All Time (#4): Ford 300 I6

Editor’s Note: This series counts down the Top 10 engines of all time—see how the voting was done by reading our initial post.   Some are undoubtedly puzzled that this inline 6-cylinder engine landed fairly high on the list. Others might be surprised it made the list at all. The rest of you—the ones that have actually owned the

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Top 10 Engines of All Time (#5): Chevy 427

While Chevrolet did produce a select few 427-cubic-inch engines a few years prior (the Z11) for the Chevy Impala, the wildly popular Chevy 427 V8 engine became available to the general public in 1966. The engine won instant fans, because the powerplant offered versatility and piles of horsepower. The 427 powered vehicles across the spectrum

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