Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

Chevy's Vortec 8100 — AKA the L18, AKA the Vortec 8.1 — was the last of The General's big block V8s, a line of engines that traced its lineage clear back to the fire-breathing muscle cars of the '60s ...

Actively reporting, writing, and editing on automotive news and since 2021, Dave has brought his acerbic wit and love of European car culture to brands such as HotCars, CarBuzz,and TopSpeed.

Swapping an LS engine into a car is popular among folks inclined to do such things. It's a great way to gain the horsepower potential and reliability that makes the General Motors LS engines so ...

When you think GM, you think trucks and SUVs; you think power and size. Among GM's engine ranks, there's one that you'll find in many vehicles that need power to hurl their big sizes around but don't ...

Lacking Apple CarPlay and front trunk Not quite as sporty to drive as it looks Higher starting price than others in the class After much waiting and anticipation we've finally gotten our first ...

In his 1981 book, Disturbing the Universe, the late physicist Freeman Dyson wrote, “A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.” Jordan Lee ...

To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to bring you some of the stories that exemplify the core of what HOT ROD is and reflect the brand's influence on America's car ...

I saw the Camaro in the movie Transformers and fell in love with its style and shape immediately. I saw the Camaro in the movie Transformers and fell in love with its style and shape immediately. It ...

You can’t help but respect a working truck, no matter what flaws it may have—mechanical or aesthetic. That said, nobody could blame you for putting a couple of car lengths between your rig and this ...