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– ...
Many people instantly think of the supercharged fifth-generation small-blocks when they hear someone mention General Motors' LT4 and LT5 engines. However, we shouldn't forget about the original LT4 ...
Around 1990, it looked as though the Lotus was going to get the Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1's LT5 V8, which made 375 horsepower ...
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 ...
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 ...
The automotive world is filled with near misses, vehicles and technologies that made itto production, only to get the hook just before rolling into the center ring. We know of dozens of ...
Chevrolet's new Corvette ZR1 bowed with an incredible 755 horsepower and 715 pound-feet of torque last month with a noteworthy engine under the car's shaker hood: a 6.2-liter supercharged LT5 V8 ...
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 ...
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 ...
At first glance, the Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna shown here looks a little too tame for SEMA. It's clearly been carefully restored and tastefully modified, but that's about it. So why would Chevrolet ...
The automotive world is filled with near misses, vehicles and technologies that made itto production, only to get the hook just before rolling into the center ring. We know of dozens of ...