This American power unit has a track-record unlike any other modern V-8 engine.

In a market sector already inhabited by Studebaker and Rambler economy cars, the Big Three, Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler's compact car debut took place in late 1959. The new car buying public ...

General Motors began using LS V8 engines in its muscle car lineup in 1997 with the introduction of the 5.7-liter LS1, the first of its third-generation small block design. That first iteration, used ...