8 cycling 4 stroke?

[bruce plecan]

In the new Sport Compact Car (Apr 98) they memtion, big
cammed V-8 engines, only firing every other compression
stroke, at idle !!.
  Can any one comfirm this?.
  I've had some big cammed motors, on various scopes
but I've never seen a cylinder fire every other time.  May
be I missed something here.  I've seen short burn times,
and erratic firing voltages, but firing every other compression
stroke, that doesn't seem likely.
  Bruce