With all good things that have come, there are the good ones that didn’t. As the new Ford 5.0 “Coyote” and the larger 6.2 “Boss” V8 engines are being unveiled the writing is on the wall for the Ford “modular” engine family. The 4.6 and 5.4 liter SOHC and DOHC V8’s will soon be fading into the history books next to the Windsor small-block V8’s, the Clevelands, and the big-block FE’s.

The 6.8 liter SOHC 3-Valve V-10 will soldier on for a short time as it has become a favorite for commercial truck chassis and industrial uses. The V-10 can be found in many gasoline and natural gas powered motor homes, panel vans, shuttles, and Super Duty commercial trucks. You can even find them in some residential and commercial generators too.

This brings us to pay homage to perhaps what might have been the top-dog of the modular engine family had it ever been produced. We are talking about the 4-Valve DOHC V-10 high performance engine. The aluminum block four-valve variant of the V-10 never made it to the showrooms though the high performance gurus within Ford’s SVT “skunk works” sure tried to get it there. This is evidenced by the fact variations of this engine were campaigned in not one, not two, but three concept cars in a three year period between 2003 and 2005.

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