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 ...
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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 ...
NHTSA has officially asked General Motors to recall more than 721,000 full-size SUVs and pickup trucks equipped with 6.2L V8 engines after the company voluntarily issued a stop sale late last week. As ...
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 ...
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The Dodge Challenger has always had a strong reputation for robust performance power, dating back to the '60s. The 1969 Challenger R/T offered a massive 7.0-liter V8 engine that could crank out 425 ...
Many classic four-cylinder cars have so little performance potential that owners give up and swap their engines out for V8s. They may soon have an appropriate four-banger performance option, though, ...
Engines for upcoming and future Chevrolet/GMC pickups are in the spotlight. Chevy recently announced the turbocharged 2.7-liter L3B I-4 powerplant as standard for its 2022 Silverado 1500 LTD (all ...
The 6.2-liter V8 Supercharged LSA is an engine that was produced by General Motors for use in high-performance vehicles. The LSA is part of GM’s fourth-generation V8 Small Block engine family, though ...