Hyundai Motor America has identified a rather worrying issue that affects 29 crossovers produced for the United States market. In these vehicles, the connecting rod bolts may not have been properly ...
Chevy V8 failures have been a topic of significant discussion lately. Earlier this year, we highlighted a video documenting the teardown of a junked 6.2-liter GM L87 V8 that was removed from a new ...
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, ...
Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...
The Honda S2000 is a true automotive great and not only one of the finest sports cars produced by Honda but also one of the very best to ever come out of Japan. While it is just about perfect as it is ...
The original Land Rover Defender started life back in 1983 as the ‘110’, a name meant to reflect the length of its wheelbase. Of course, we can go back even further if we’re talking about the family ...
Chevrolet's LS-series ("luxury sport") is one of the most popular V8 engines ever with literally dozens of different iterations available. Of those, the LS3 is at the top of the desirability heap, ...
Utah's Transcend Energy Group claims it has a relatively simple and cheap way to dramatically increase the torque output of combustion engines, simply by replacing the standard connecting rods with ...
The annual SEMA Show in Las Vegas always brings fans of the automotive aftermarket loads of new hardware to check out. Transcend Energy Group made waves this week by unveiling the industry’s first two ...
Although the C5 Corvette Z06 is still an incredible sports car bargain, the C6 is surprisingly affordable now, too. And for the most part, the 2005-2013 Corvette is a reliable used sports car. However ...
How Is This DOHC 32-Valve Flat-Plane V-8 a Small-Block?! There are virtually no parts shared with any other GM small-block V-8 and the Corvette Z06; the cylinder-block construction method and ...
Back in the early 1990s the Gen II LT1 and LT4 engines powered GM's hottest performance cars, but GM read the tea leaves and knew that this platform would not be able to get them where they would ...