General Motors' Vortec engine has powered some of the best cars GM ever made, but it's not without its problems. Which years ...

The ZR1's $175,000 price pales beside rivals from Ferrari, Bugatti, Aston Martin and Lamborghini but not its performance.

Engines are the heart and soul of the cars we love. America has long produced some of the most iconic engines, especially in ...

An oil crisis, tightening emissions controls, and the simple fact that people had less money in their pockets meant that the ...

Muscle cars were so common then that many of them sat on dealership lots for weeks or months; many of those same cars, like ...

Big block engines might have been a product of the golden age of the muscle car, but these robust designs outlasted their ...

The Chevy 454 SS wasn’t just a two-wheel-drive pickup with a big engine, but a complete performance package with enhanced handling courtesy of a thicker front anti-roll bar, quicker steering ...

This is where the 454 comes in, an engine that, while no longer in production, was so good that the company fitted it in 14 vehicles. Chevrolet's big block engine family saw its infancy in 1958.

To ensure that the chassis could keep up with the newfound horsepower, Chevrolet engineers outfitted the 454 SS with a quicker ... inline four-cylinder or V-6 engines that were typically found ...

Introduced in 1970, the Chevy 454 — affectionately known as the Rat Motor – was the largest displacement Chevrolet engine to enter the big-block engine showdown of the muscle car era.