In March 2024, YouTube channel Rugged Wrench showed the engine can still run if you find it in good shape. That's likely the exception to the rule, but it proves some Rocket 88 V8s are still kicking.

A small (by 1962 standards), all-aluminum V8 produced by Oldsmobile, the innovative Turbo-Rocket introduced turbocharging to the masses. These days, most of the internal combustion engines that ...

For its part, the V8 team has released version 5.4, a new branch of the engine. “V8 5.4 delivers a number of key improvements in memory footprint and startup speed,” the team said in a bulletin.

V8, an open source Google project, is a powerful JavaScript engine for Chrome that's helped advance the web and web applications. V8 also powers the server-side runtime Node.js.

For reference, Ford's extremely popular flathead V8 was generating only 100 horses in stock form. The Rocket V8 was also good for a healthy 253 pound-feet (343 Nm) of torque.

Google and Microsoft, which now both contribute to the Chromium project, apparently share concerns about the Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Microsoft's Edge ...

This shim implements the most essential V8 APIs so that the underlying JavaScript engine change is transparent to Node.js and other native add-on modules written for V8,” Seth said.