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What's tortured about it? "V engine" seems to be a perfectly acceptable term of art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_engi

• csours 11y ago
  > Almost 14% of the cars we service have an eight-cylinder V engine, more commonly known as a V8 Re-write: About 14% of vehicles we service are powered by V8 engines with two banks of four cylinders in a V arrangement. The tortured part is that no car enthusiast or anyone in the car business would refer to it that way, and it also doesn't help anyone who is not a car enthusiast understand anything.