When it comes to eight-cylinder gas engines, GM has some twisted engineers who are hard at work in its labs. No, they're not crazy, unless you consider the almost fanatical obsession they have with ...

Decades ago (OK, half a century or more), there was a product advertised in many of the performance magazines called the Varicam. The idea was a set of springs attached to a centrifugal device that ...

QUESTIONI'm in the process of transplanting an L77 from a 2012 Caprice 9C1 PPV [police pursuit vehicle] along with its 6L80E [six-speed, longitudinally mounted electronic automatic overdrive ...

GM Powertrain announced today it will deliver a 3.6-liter V-6 gasoline engine with direct injection and variable valve timing (VVT) technologies in the 2008 model year. A vehicle application will be ...

When Chevrolet announced that the fifth-generation Camaro would come with two different V-8 engine depending on what transmission the customer ordered, many enthusiasts were a bit confused. The LS3, ...

Despite many believing Euro5 will spell the end for air-cooled motors, there are still plenty around – just take the new BMW R18 as the perfect example. Low-revving motors aren’t a problem for Euro5, ...

Engineering patents often provide an insight into the future of the automobile, and if Nissan's latest is anything to go by, the Japanese brand might have found a way to squeeze a little extra life ...

Ben came to MCN back in 1997 fresh from university and dropped plans for a career in law to pursue the dream of writing about bikes for a living. Landing as a junior news reporter he discovered a ...

Maar liefst 90 procent van de Nederlandse Toyota Yaris-klanten kiest voor de Yaris 1.5 Hybrid, die vooral wordt geroemd om zijn zuinige karakter. Het alternatief is de wat aantrekkelijker geprijsde ...

Decades ago (OK, half a century or more), there was a product advertised in many of the performance magazines called the Varicam. The idea was a set of springs attached to a centrifugal device that ...