Back in 1986, General Motors purchased Group Lotus, a well-regarded British engine and auto manufacturing firm. GM was in need of a high-performance powerplant for a new version of the C4 Corvette– ...

LT5 will always remain one of GM’s most significant alphanumeric engine codes. When it turned up in 1990 the high-revving DOHC architecture was a bombshell dropped on the American performance ...

After merely a year of production, the LT5 crate engine is listed on the Chevrolet website as discontinued. The most powerful motor ever offered in a Chevrolet-branded production vehicle was ...

Well, well, well, it looks like General Motors may have finally tipped its hand as to what's lurking under the hood of the upcoming Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. LSXMag, via Weapon X Motorsports, has ...

Documents, which have since been pulled from the internet, hint a new powertrain may soon be slipping between the fenders of the 2018 Chevrolet Corvette. Not only does the addition of a new engine ...

Katech Performance, as I’m sure Corvette enthusiasts already know, is a company that provided GM Racing with the LS7.R small-block V8. More recently, however, the peeps over at Katech Performance have ...

Chevrolet has discontinued the LT5 crate engine—the most powerful General Motors production engine—after just one year of availability. The news was first reported by Motor Trend, and subsequently ...

We here at The Drive endorse the use of high-revving, naturally aspirated V8 engines in lightweight hill climb cars that originally came with something less substantial—like a piddly little inline ...

Chevy has been perfecting the old-school pushrod V8 for a long time now, but its day may be nearly over. Internal GM documents have leaked that hint that the 2018 Corvette might get an entirely new ...

You can opt for a 420hp engine in a Tahoe, but it’s worth remembering that it was only a little more than 10 years ago when the C6 Z06 stunned the world with 505 race track-derived horsepower from the ...

Chevrolet’s LT5 V8 engine is a beast out of the box out of the crate but expert GM engine builder Katech has just announced a heavily-modified version of the engine it dubs the ‘Track Attack.’ As ...

General Motors has refiled a trademark application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the name LT5. The automaker initially filed for the LT5 trademark back in April 2013 and in ...