As pointed out by Chevy ’s assistant chief engineer, Next Generation V8, Mike Kociba, “there is no replacement for displacement,” and to that end, the new LS6 grows in terms of both volume displaced ...
Some things are just fundamentally part of American culture. Baseball. Apple pie. Catchy ad campaigns. And small-block Chevrolets. For only the sixth time since the small-block arrived inside the ...
GM’s four-cylinder TurboMax engine has proven to be a solid alternative to old-school V8s—and it’s about to get even better. Next-gen GM pickups to get enhanced TurboMax engine. Four-cylinder mill ...
The 6.2-liter V8 engine recall saga is far from being over and no real solution appears to be on the horizon. GM recalls nearly 600,000 trucks and SUVs for potential L87 engine failures. Dealers ...
Federal regulators have opened a new inquiry after receiving 36 complaints alleging engine failures in GM vehicles even after the L87 6.2-liter V8 recall repair was completed. The recall remedy ...
11 lawsuits over GM’s 6.2L L87 V8 have been consolidated into a single class action, centered on engine failures tied to crankshaft and connecting-rod defects. More than 700,000 GM trucks and SUVs ...
Update, 2:45pm: This post has been updated to clarify the relationship between this latest investigation and GM's earlier recall of the L87 engine. Hysterical fears that V-8 engines would be wiped ...
Every General Motors LS engine is special, starting with the LS1, a 5.7-liter Gen III small block V8 which debuted in the 1997 C5 Corvette. In 2008, GM released the 6.2-liter LS3 based on the Gen IV ...
“We got it wrong and we’re fixing it,” Ram CEO Tim Kuniskis says. What did Ram get wrong? The truck maker nixed the Hemi V-8 option from the redesigned 2025 Ram 1500, making the more powerful and fuel ...
That didn’t take long: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into problems with GM’s 6.2-liter V-8 engines on January 16, and now, three and a half months later, ...
General Motors is recalling hundreds of thousands of trucks and SUVs equipped with its 6.2-liter V8 engine. It turns out some internal components may have manufacturing defects, the kind that don’t ...
General Motors is now the subject of an NHTSA investigation after more than a thousand complaints were logged over sudden and catastrophic failure of some of its “L87” 6.2-liter V8s—a core power plant ...