No love for the flathead Fords?

Everyone else is wrong

I don’t care what anybody else says. Anything from Pagani is absolutely stunning. Someone already mentioned the Huyara, but I love the Zonda R. The entire engine bay is a work of art.

Pretty much any horizontally opposed twin motorcycle motor from BMW.

Nelson Racing Engines tends to churn out some stuff that is pleasing to the eye... usually a little down on power though.

A great question...so many interesting answers. Here are mine:

Honda NSR 500 V4 2-stroke gets my pic. Just look at those expansion chambers.

It may not be the greatest engine ever (though it’s up there) but the 4AGE isn’t my desktop background for no reason.

Since the Busso V-6, Lampredi V-12 and Jag XK are already here,

Atom 500 H1V8

I may be a little partial, but...

I know that engine covers are supposed to be the antichrist, but I always really liked the mild application that Toyota used in the late ‘90s, especially when it’s cleaned up a bit like this 20v 4A-GE:

Cosworth DFV gets my vote:

here is every time the car died in my lifetime:

“We lost count.” - Range Rover

At least 2x a day on Jalopnik and its sub-blogs.

I’m truly shocked that people actually love Firebirds so passionately as to write poorly worded e-mails to blog contributors exclaiming their passions.

1. Eliminate the 3.0L turblows

This thing doesn’t even have power steering. How much more do you want them to strip out?

How about a 10-15k brz that comes with no engine and transmission, just some ls engine mounts.