The V8 engine is ingrained in American culture. At one point in our not-so-distant past, eight-cylinder powertrains were available in essentially every full-size pickup truck, such as the Ram 1500, large SUVs like the Toyota Sequoia, and even some midsize SUVs, like the Nissan Pathfinder. So what happened to them? People can blame everything from emissions regulations, which are partly to blame, to buyers’ personal preferences, but there’s no single answer to the slow disappearance of V8s.
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