Category: Garage
Under The Hood: 2020-2023 Kia Telluride
Under the hood of the 2020-2023 Kia Telluride and Hyundai Palisade with the brand's Lambda-II 3.8-liter V6 engine, a power plant that has been around in various forms since 2005. Here it produces 291 horsepower an...
Under The Hood: 2022 Toyota GR86
For 2022 the Toyota GR86 and Subaru BR-Z was given a larger evolution of the venerable horizontally opposed “Boxer” naturally aspirated four-cylinder engine. Now with a larger bore of 94 mm up from 86 mm, the engi...
Under The Hood: 2022 Cadillac CT5 V Blackwing
The 2022 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing uses the most powerful version to date of the explosively powerful 6.2-liter LT4 supercharged V8. Available with both a 10-speed automatic and standard with a 6-speed manual, it p...
Under The Hood: 2024 Chevrolet Trax
The 2024 Chevrolet Trax and Buick Envista use a well proven LIH 1.2-liter turbocharged and direct-injected three cylinder engine mated to a six-speed automatic transmission. In this vehicle it produces 137 horsepo...
2016 Nissan Titan XD 5.6 V8: Engine Build & Plant Tour
The new 2016 Nissan Titan XD 5.6 liter V8 is a next-generation of the engine found in the 2015 Titan as well as the current NV-Series vans. Here you see it in prototype form packed into the 2016 Titan XD, I note this ...
Under The Hood: 2016 Kia Optima 2.0 GDI Turbo
In the 2016 Kia Optima, the company's 2.0 liter turbocharged direct-injected four-cylinder engine is somewhat de-tuned from previous versions, this one offering up 245 horsepower and 260 pound-feet of torque. This ...
Under The Hood: 2022 Ford Maverick Hybrid
The Ford Maverick Hybrid features a powertrain well proven, an evolution of hardware that has been in production for nearly a decade powering Ford Fusion, C-Max and Escape Hybrid models just to name a few. In t...
How It’s Made: 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning
With over 150,000 reservations on hand for the new electric F-150 Lightning pickup trucks, the first pre-production units are now rolling off the line. Everything about how the Lighting is put together is subs...
Under The Hood: 2016 Toyota Prius
The 2016 Toyota Prius is the first all-new one in several years, with a host of new technicals under its hood. While its engine designation is still 2ZR-FXE, the engine is heavily revised for this year and hybrid driv...
Under The Hood: 2017 Volkswagen Passat 1.8
The standard engine now for the Volkwagen Passat is now the brand's 1.8-liter turbocharged four-cylinder EA888 mill, replacing the old naturally aspirated 2.5-liter five cylinder engine a couple years ago. And thou...
