Transverse V8

"mkbruin, Atlas VP" (mkbruin)
10/13/2017 at 09:37 • Filed to: None

Can Oppo list ALL production transverse V8 cars/trucks? No looking for a Wikipedia page, try from memory...

DISCUSSION (18)

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > mkbruin, Atlas VP
10/13/2017 at 09:44

Volvo S80

Volvo XC90

Buick Allure Super

Pontiac Grand Prix GXP

Chevy Impala SS

Chevy Monte Carlo SS

Buick Lucerne

Lots of early 2000's Cadillac’s I can’t name.

Arrivederci > mkbruin, Atlas VP
10/13/2017 at 09:45

Let’s see. GM did a bunch:

- Cadillac Seville/STS Northstar
- Cadillac Deville/DTS Northstar
- Pontiac Grand Prix GXP
- Chevy Impala SS
- Buick LaCrosse Super
- Buick Lucerne Northstar

I’m sure I’ve missed a few.

HammerheadFistpunch > mkbruin, Atlas VP
10/13/2017 at 09:45

The Northstar vehicles, STS, sls, etc.

Grand Prix gxp

Taurus SHO

Um that’s all I got

Ash78, voting early and often > mkbruin, Atlas VP
10/13/2017 at 09:46

How about Caddy Allante?

The poster child for transverse V8 is always the Impala SS in my mind.

Aaron M - MasoFiST > mkbruin, Atlas VP
10/13/2017 at 09:47

Pontiac Grand Prix GXP, Buick Lacrosse Super, Monte Carlo SS, Impala SS (The LS4 cars, I don’t remember years).

Cadillac Deville/DTS/STS (The Northstar ones)

Oldsmobile Aurora, Pontiac Bonneville GXP (Also Northstar?)

Volvo S80, Volvo XC90?

Ford Taurus SHO 3rd gen

That’s all I got.

E90M3 > mkbruin, Atlas VP
10/13/2017 at 09:49

Lots of cars made by GM.

Few of them that weren’t.

merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc > HammerheadFistpunch
10/13/2017 at 09:49

No SHO though, that’s a 6..... oops I see the third gen was a V8. Wow didn’t know that, good find. (I did have to cheat and consult the Wikipedia)

HammerheadFistpunch > merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc
10/13/2017 at 09:52

My neighbor had one growing up is how I remember

DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > mkbruin, Atlas VP
10/13/2017 at 09:52

Here’s what I know.

20??-2016 Volvo S80

2006-2015 Volvo XC90

1996-1999 Ford Taurus SHO

1993 Cadillac Allante

1993-2003 Cadillac Seville, Seville SLS/STS

1995-2005 Cadillac DeVille, Deville d’Elegance/Concours/DHS/DTS

1993-2002 Cadillac Eldorado, Eldorado ESC/ETC

2006-2011 Cadillac DTS

1995-2003 Oldsmobile Aurora

2004-2006 Pontiac Bonneville GXP

2006-2011 Buick Lucerne CXL/CXS/Super

2005-2009 Buick LaCrosse/Allure Super

2006-2009 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS

2006-2009 Chevrolet Impala SS

2006-2008 Pontiac Grand Prix GXP

crowmolly > mkbruin, Atlas VP
10/13/2017 at 09:53

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > mkbruin, Atlas VP
10/13/2017 at 09:53

Taurus SHO

Cadillac Seville/Deville/Eldorado

Olds Aurora

Lancia Thema (bet you forgot about that one)

Buick Lacross

Pontiac Bonneville

Volvo XC90

Are we including mid engined cars? Because this list gets much bigger with them included.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > mkbruin, Atlas VP
10/13/2017 at 09:54

Transverse U8 (not V8) that never got beyond prototype, there was a Matra Bagheera.

LongbowMkII > mkbruin, Atlas VP
10/13/2017 at 09:54

Ferrari 308/328/348, Monidal 8 and all their permutations.

bhtooefr > mkbruin, Atlas VP
10/13/2017 at 09:55

Lancia Thema 8.32

Volvo S80

Volvo XC90

Ford Taurus SHO (the one that nobody likes)

Lincoln Continental (the one that’s actually a Taurus)

Chevy Impala SS

Chevy Monte Carlo SS?

Pontiac Grand Prix GXP

Buick LaCrosse Super (I think that’s all of the LS4s? Or was it a Lucerne, not a LaCrosse?)

Cadillac Allante

Cadillac Eldorado and variants (I think that’s basically ETC?)

Cadillac Seville and variants (SLS and STS?) - also, I’m counting multiple generations here, the HT-4100s are accounted for by this.

Cadillac Deville and variants (DTS?)

Cadillac XTS

Oldsmobile Aurora I think had a N*, too?

Ariel Atom RST V8 (and the engine is in the back this time)

I feel like some Ferrari, maybe the Mondial or something, was transverse V8?

Cizeta-Moroder was TWO transverse V8s sharing a crankshaft. OK, that’s cheating, except it really was designed as two V8s - the firing order would be different if it were a true V16.

And I think that’s it.

LongbowMkII > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
10/13/2017 at 10:04

according to wiki it was longitudinal. I had to look up that weird little duck.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > LongbowMkII
10/13/2017 at 10:11

Huh. The normal I4 in the Bagheera was transverse, so why the crap did they change for the U4? I didn’t know that - thought I’d seen a pic in transverse...

merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc > HammerheadFistpunch
10/13/2017 at 10:15

That’s pretty cool, I didn’t even know they made the SHO in that gen of Taurus, let alone that it was a V8. I thought they were all 6's, with the earlier ones having the Yamaha heads.

Cé hé sin > mkbruin, Atlas VP
10/13/2017 at 10:21

This post is suffering from a shortage of Lamborghinis, particularly these ones:

Urraco

Silhouette

Jalpa