Video by Top Gear

In this video, Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson looks at another use for the V8 engine engine -- a food blender!

The gasoline injected V8 engine was invented in 1902 by Léon Levavasseur. He shrewdly named the light, but powerful, eight cylinder engine the 'Antoinette' after his financial backer's young daughter.

Watch an animation of the ways cylinders are usually arranged in multi-cylinder engines at How Stuff Works

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