European Cross-Plane V8 Engines You Should Know About

Shop FCP Euro’s Winter Garage Sale for all your Genuine, OE, OEM, and car care parts needs this season. It’s a new year, and with that, new inventory. We’re clearing out our “garage” while helping you stock yours. Universal tools, parts, and fluids, that not too often go on sale are now available...

Although it may seem like the end of our gasoline-powered fun, the internal combustion engine likely isn’t going away in the next couple of decades. Electrification is rising as the future of standard transportation, and that’s better for the planet and even us automotive fanatics. Leaving...

  If you’re reading this, you’re probably aware of the phenomenal prices that used German cars have been fetching on auction websites over the past several years. What started with the ‘Porsche bubble’ at higher-end auctions has spread to other makes and models with surprising speed. Websites...

The eighties were a magical time of budding technology, bright colors, and endless streams of money influencing everything from toasters to the cars we drove. The latter became a huge focal point of the decade as turbocharging made its way into more accessible vehicles, and the mid-engined...

In just two years, Porsche’s Taycan and its sister car, the Audi e-tron GT, have redefined the performance EV market. Their instant torque and ridiculous power figures have made them the quickest cars on the street, dethroning Dodge Hellcats and Porsche 911 Turbos everywhere while providing the...

Clutch or torque converter? Three pedals or two? That’s the question prospective buyers asked themselves around twenty years ago when ordering their new Porsche 996 and the one you need to ask yourself before looking for a 996 on the used market. Porsche offered their first water-cooled Carrera...

For many years, the long-roofed sedan was the transport of choice for the American family. Better known as a wagon, the decade and a half following the oil crisis forced the hatch-bearing body into a running joke thanks to soul-crushing designs of the malaise era. It was a paradigm shift that the...

There was a time when the engineers at Porsche were commissioned to build a W124 Mercedes-Benz. This factory widebodied, V8 powered 500E was the result. What happens when a top-tier German automaker wants to release an ultimate version of their popular W124 chassis, but their own resources are...

The gasoline-powered world that we know and love is in its waning moments. The naturally-aspirated engine is nearly dead, and we’re only about a decade away from the end of new internal combustion engines. Supplementing the inevitable demise of combustion is the growing electric vehicle market....