However, when it comes to the most versatile engine ever created by Ford, the honor must go to the 4.6-liter V8, part of the Modular engine family. Over the course of its decade-and-a-half tenure ...

That V8, a fourth-generation Coyote, has a long history and is the descendant of Ford's modular V8 engine family that first appeared back in 1990, in the form of the 4.6-liter SOHC V8 engine.