Boss is the internal name for a family of large-displacement V8 engines from Ford Motor Company intended to compete with Chrysler's Hemi and General Motors' 6.0 L Vortec engines.

Originally named Hurricane, development of the engine was cancelled in 2005, then revived in early 2006 by Mark Fields[1] In light of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, it was renamed the Boss engine.

The V8 shares design similarities with the Modular Engine family such as a deep-skirt block with cross-bolted main caps, crankshaft-driven gerotor oil pump, overhead cam valve train arrangement, and bellhousing bolt pattern.

[2] This V8 went into production in early 2010 and debuted in the 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor as a late-availability option.

[2] For 2017, the 6.2 L V8 in the Super Duty received new tuning and modified camshafts to bump torque to 430 lb⋅ft (583 N⋅m), while power remained at 385 hp (287 kW).