It is a nightmare scenario for any car buyer: dropping nearly $100,000 on a top-tier luxury SUV, only to have the engine ...

GM argues its recall and 10-year warranty extension make the L87 engine class action unnecessary ...

General Motors knows it has a problem. While the company’s full-size trucks remain some of the best-selling vehicles in North ...

Problems occurring with new cars and their powertrains are nothing new. Just a quick search on the internet for EcoBoost engine reliability problems, or Honda's 3.5-liter V6 crankshaft problem — which ...

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General Motors is asking a judge to dismiss a class action lawsuit targeting the 6.2L V8 L87 gasoline engine, arguing that the plaintiff’s concerns have already been addressed following last year’s ...

As GM Authority has covered in-depth for months now, General Motors has issued a recall for certain units of the naturally aspirated 6.2L V8 L87 gasoline engine. Part of this latest GM engine recall ...

General Motors debuted the Gen 5 L86 6.2-liter EcoTec3 V8, one of the most reliable GM engines ever, in 2014 for use in various large SUV and full-size pickup truck applications. While similar to the ...

The lawsuits keep piling up for the brand’s L87 small-block V8. For many drivers of larger trucks and SUVs, a naturally-aspirated V8 is associated with superior reliability compared with the newer ...

Back in April 2025, the largest automaker of the Detroit Big Three issued recall 25V-274 for nearly 600,000 trucks and truck-based sport utility vehicles equipped with the L87 small-block V8. In the ...

More than 28,000 complaints. Three internal investigations. Twelve crashes. Twelve people injured. Forty-two fires. Thousands of cars bricked that left their owners stranded in the middle of nowhere.