The Pontiac brand was established in 1926 by General Motors and was so successful in its early years that GM abandoned its similar Oakland division in 1933. Pontiac had begun to flounder by ...

While there have been some iconic big-block engines over the last few decades, it's difficult to argue with the success of the small-block engine. Small-block engines not only weigh less — allowing ...

Most of Detroit’s great big-block muscle machines have soared into six-figure auction stardom, yet one of the most iconic of them all remains surprisingly attainable. Coming out of the General Motors ...

Liters, cc’s and—my favorite—cubic inches are all terms you’ll hear when folks talk about engines. While these terms are all based on different increments of measurement, they’re all used to describe ...

Engine builder Ken Duttweiler(right)and Dave Halderman are plenty pleased with the 2 horsepower-per-cubic-inch performance of their single 4-barrel Buick V6. Duttweiler found that torque readings and ...

Why did they call musclecars factory hot rods? Because Detroit emulated the hot rodders by putting the biggest V8s at their disposal into some of the smallest/lightest passenger car bodies in their ...

This monstrous motor clocks in at over 10.3 liters of displacement and makes more than 1,000 horsepower on pump gas without a turbo or nitrous. Kyle Hyatt (he/him/his) hails originally from the ...

Take a look at your calendar…yes, today (Thursday) is 3/27, a date that—in numerical form—is a tribute to Chevrolet’s legendary “mighty mouse motor,” the 327-cubic-inch small-block V-8. It was likely ...

Originally published in Sports Car Illustrated in February 1957. "There's no substitute for cubic inches." That's a popular theory among American auto enthusiasts which eight years of bigger and ...

From the February 1967 issue of Car and Driver. Seven liters! Four hundred and twenty-eight cubic inches in a Mustang! We were expecting a cataclysm on wheels, the automotive equivalent of the end of ...