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GM’s L87 V8 Woes Continue This year has been rough for General Motors, which has been dealing with an investigation, a recall, and multiple lawsuits tied to its 6.2-liter L87 small-block V8. The safety campaign affects nearly 600,000 L87-powered trucks and SUVs from the 2021–2024 model years, making this reported blown L87 engine on a relatively new 2026 GMC Yukon shared on Reddit especially hard to ignore. According to the original poster, the GMC Yukon was delivered on October 30, 2025, follow

Among the Few With This Spec Mecum Auctions has listed for sale a 1966 Plymouth Satellite, notably equipped with Chrysler’s 426 Hemi V8, widely regarded as one of the most iconic American performance engines ever built. This particular example – one of only 817 produced with the Hemi engine – has undergone a comprehensive restoration and shows just 84 miles on the odometer. The 426 Hemi first appeared in 1964 as a race-only engine and immediately made headlines after Plymouth achieved a 1-2-3 fi

Where Cadillac Learned to Go Fast The Nürburgring Nordschleife in Germany has long served as a proving ground for high-performance vehicles, and Cadillac was no exception. General Motors recently revisited the early development work that led to the Cadillac CTS-V, the brand’s first purpose-built V-Series performance car. Ken Morris, now GM’s senior vice president of product programs, recalled taking an early CTS prototype to the Nürburgring in the late 1990s with a clear objective: to engineer a

The Trade-Offs As turbochargers and other advanced engine technologies become more common, newer vehicles generally deliver measurable gains over their predecessors in efficiency, emissions, and performance. However, YouTuber speedkar99 argues that this added complexity can come at the expense of long-term reliability, a claim he supports through a teardown of Honda’s R18 engine. The R18 is a 1.8-liter naturally aspirated inline-four used in the 8th- and 9th-generation Honda Civic. It is also n

A new car purchase is never a decision to be taken lightly, and with the average new car price in 2025 exceeding $50,000 for the first time ever, finding a bargain may feel almost impossible. But new research from Hagerty indicates that the Mazda MX-5 Miata is an incredibly high-value purchase because, adjusted for inflation, it's cheaper in 2025 than it ever has been. Working off data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the report says that a current-generation ND Miata has been cheaper t

Several spy shots of the new BMW 5-series, in both its sedan and Touring formats, are making rounds on the internet. While that’s happening on one end, as per, someone from Russia has decided to liven things up, rendering the new facelifted 5-series LCI based on what we know so far. Kolesa.ru shared a few photos of the non-camo’d Bimmer online, which, taken at face value, does make it seem like BMW is moving away from its beaver-teeth ethos. Although the design never fully made it to the 5-serie

Bobby Rahal is letting go of one of the crown jewels in Japanese car history. His 1967 Toyota 2000GT, chassis MF10-10128, is currently listed on Bring a Trailer as a dealer-consignment Premium auction through Graham Rahal Performance. One of just 351 examples built during a three-year production run, this right-hand-drive Solar Red coupe comes with an unusually well-documented global backstory, a fresh mechanical pedigree, and a recent class win at the 2024 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. A

While we have seen Bluetooth controller access in modern infotainment systems, this is the first time we’re actually seeing PS Remote Play natively offered in any production car. The feature is made available in Sony-Honda Mobility’s Afeela 1 EV, a joint venture backed by two of Japan’s largest conglomerates. Playing video games while your EV charges or when the passenger is bored during your long trip are likely the proposed use cases here. The company says your PS5 and PS4 controllers can remo

The Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 has been setting records all over the world, becoming the fastest American production car to lap the Nürburgring. It's also recently been crowned the fastest car ever to lap Sonoma Raceway, and the fastest car around five other American racetracks. Now, Hennessey has taken a stock Corvette ZR1 to another record, though perhaps one not quite as prestigious as the others, beating a Hennessey Venom 1000 Ford Mustang by setting the highest speed ever achieved by a road-leg

Reinventing the Door Handle Design-wise, flush exterior handles look sleek and help reduce aerodynamic drag slightly. At the same time, electronic handles have made their way inside cars, too, ranging from buttons to, again, electronic handles. We're now at the point where the simple and reliable door pulls are getting electronically assisted. It's forced manufacturers who make such doors to make emergency door openers in case of emergencies, such as fires. However, there have been some serious

You can buy AAA batteries for pennies each, or you can spend dollars each, and I always wonder if the cheap ones are actually worth buying or not. And then the cheap ones you get included in something you buy on Amazon sometimes don’t even have a label, and yet they seem to last forever in whatever they came in which doesn’t help me think I need to buy name brand batteries. In recent years I’ve gotten to where I mostly buy Kirkland batteries from Costco because they are supposedly Duracell batte

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A railroad speeder is one of those little tiny cars that ran on the train track back in the day to do repairs, check on track conditions, etc. Remember the ones in cartoons where two guys were hand cranking one to get it to cruise down the tracks? That’s a speeder, except later models actually had engines and could cruise down the tracks at speed. In the 1980 and 1990s speeders went away as the railroads changed over to road rail vehicles, which are those pickup trucks with the narrow wheels and

Kevin and the KSR Performance and Fab crew headed out to Bradenton for Cleetus McFarland’s Christmas Tree Drags, but like most folks in the motorsports world it was with a heavy heart after the unfortunate death of Greg Biffle and his family. He wasn’t alone, as he and many of the other racers at the Christmas Tree Race were friends with Biffle or raced with him in a variety of races at Bradenton and the Freedom Factory. But even though Greg’s death put a big of a dark cloud over the weekend, th

I’ve seen some personalized or vanity plates that I was surprised made it through the approval process, but then I’ve also heard about others getting kicked that I didn’t think were bad. To be honest, I wonder who it is that actually approves or denies all the ones that people come up with and submit. I’ve had several personalized plates over the years, but none of them were anything controversial. With that said, I’ve seen a ton I laughed at and wondered how they got approved. Watch the video

The unfortunate and tragic death of Greg Biffle made news worldwide but for Garrett Mitchell, aka Cleetus McFarland, the news hit home much harder. Biffle and his family were on their way to Florida for some birthday and racing fun with Garrett and his family and friends when they had issues and were forced to turn back to the North Carolina airport they had just taken off from. Their crash landing has been discussed thoroughly over the last few days, but the video below is a fitting tribute to

We love barn finds, and I know you guys do too, and part of the fun of a barn find is seeing what it looks like after the first wash. With decades of dust, dirt, and bird poop, this 1970 Chevrolet Suburban needs a bath in a big way, and the 90 year old man who owns it hasn’t seen it clean in at least 40 years. 40 years! Watch WD Detailing work their magic on this thing. Video Description: War Veteran Surprised With His Truck Cleaned For The First Time in 40 YEARS! EMOTIONAL REACTION Today, w

A Clash of Modern Performance Icons The Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 has delivered since its introduction last year, already racking up multiple performance benchmarks – including a Nürburgring lap time that beat the Ford Mustang GTD. But how does America’s most extreme production Corvette stack up against the tech-forward Ferrari 296 GTB in a straight-line battle? Thanks to DragTimes, we now have a real-world drag race between the two modern performance cars. The Corvette ZR1 lines up at the quarter-

The Kia Tasman is a midsize pickup, and that should mean it's automatically a smash hit, right? Kia's reliability and practicality in a segment that always has plenty of buyers sounds like a winning recipe for the brand, but the Tasman's quirky design appears to be the one big thing counting against it. And yet, Kia is in no rush to redesign the truck, despite sharing renders of a better-looking Tasman on its own website. Speaking with local publication Drive, Kia Australia general manager of pr

I have lots of friends who drive winter beaters, and while some of them drive the same one for several years I also have friends who buy something every year or two and drive them like assh@les because it puts a giant smile on their face. So anytime I see someone buying some winter machine, I think about how much fun we can have with them. I’m not alone obviously, as the Grind Hard Plumbing gang just bought this 1970s Snowcat and they are throwing a new engine in it that makes three times the po

Tesla’s “Robotaxi” fleet is getting a lot bigger on paper, but the rollout looks very different from the fully driverless future Elon Musk has been pitching for years. In California, the company has registered well over a thousand vehicles for paid Robotaxi service in just a few months, yet every one of those cars still needs a human driver behind the wheel. At the same time, Tesla is testing dedicated driverless prototypes and showing off future designs, from a Model S–based Robotaxi mule to

New engines are significantly better than older engines in many regards, but not in all of them. And new engines being better than old engines doesn’t mean that old engines aren’t good. Another important thing to remember is that better and good are not technical descriptors when it comes to anything that has to be quantified with data. So you might be able to look at data and then describe one engine as “better” than the other in a particular test, but saying that something is “good” doesn’t ac

Living Up To Expectations It's hard to follow up on a "great," and more often than not, it might be better to just have the one iteration and let the lore stay that way. That wasn't the case for the Acura/Honda NSX, an ambitious project that involved the very best of Honda in the '90s and even a certain F1 driver named Aryton Senna; it became the antithesis to the European idea of a sports car. The follow-up act came in 2015, and it was supposed to have the same core ideals as the first generati

'Tis the season! With the holiday season in full swing, crunch time has arrived for anyone still searching for that elusive gift for the gearhead in their life. Whether they’re into cars, trucks, racing, or simply anything mechanical with wheels, automotive enthusiasts can be notoriously difficult to shop for. To help ease the pressure, here are five simple, but genuinely thoughtful, gift ideas that are likely to land well. Automotive enthusiasts, gearheads, petrolheads - call them what you will

EVs Match or Beat ICE on Radiation Safety Most people picture an electric vehicle as a massive battery pack on wheels, packed with high-voltage wiring and powerful electric motors. While that isn’t too far from the truth, the mental image does cause concerns about electromagnetic radiation exposure. As it turns out, those fears are less rational than one would think.  Research conducted by Germany's ADAC automobile club showed that electric vehicles produce extremely low levels of electromagneti