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Hartley V8 engine

motor vehicle engine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ115803017 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Hartley V8 engine is a series of a four-stroke naturally-aspirated DOHC V8 engines, designed, developed and built by American John Hartley and Hartley Enterprises, which has been produced since 2004. It was famously used in the well-known Ariel Atom 500 V8 sports car model.

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The public source identifies “Hartley V8 engine” as motor vehicle engine. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hartley, engine and motor.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hartley, engine and motor providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hartley V8 engine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.