Celebrating the Greatest Naturally-Aspirated Engines

For this month's 15 Years of YouTube throwback, we're not just giving you one video, but a whole series celebrating the best naturally-aspirated engines.

More and more, we're favouring cars with soul, and it's these engines that give their cars that feeling of emotion, of specialness everyday cars or even some turbocharged supercars simply can't match.

It's not just us either, viewers turned their speakers up and this series was so well received that it inspired more NA Heroes videos down the line.

For now though, let's sit back and enjoy the aural pleasure of the first NA Heroes series, and should you get tempted by the noise, I've picked out a nice example of each on the market right now.

BMW E92 M3

Some thought shoehorning a 4-litre V8 into an M3 was sacrilege back in 2007. It was too heavy, out of character, an M3 should have a straight six! But that V8 revved to 8,400rpm, sounded like a NASCAR at full chat, and in hindsight, created one of the greatest BMWs of all time, the likes of which we'll never see again.

ON THE MARKET - E92 M3 LE500

2013 | 9,900 Miles | 1 of 500 | £43,980

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Ferrari 458 Speciale

Speaking of cars we won't see the likes of again, Ferrari may have just released another model called Speciale, but the 458 Speciale was the last ever naturally-aspirated V8 from Maranello, and what a way it was to bow out. It's exciting, revs to 9,000rpm, delicately balances raw brutality with cutting-edge tech, and is rightly regarded by some as Ferrari's greatest driver's masterpiece.

ON THE MARKET - 458 SPECIALE

2014 | 6,327 Miles | £367,950

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Lamborghini Huracan

Lamborghini needs praise for giving life to the naturally-aspirated engine for as long as humanly (and corporately) possible. With the Huracan, that was right up until last year, now the twin-turbo hybridised V8 Temerario has replaced it. The Aventador may have had the big V12 and the Revuelto still flies the NA V12 flag, but the way the Huracan made Lamborghini madness more affordable and more drivable is something to be celebrated in itself, and that barking V10, especially in rear-wheel-drive format as it is here, is a properly exciting recipe.