Using thicker engine oil may have only thickened the plot on this engine saga.

GM's current 6.2-liter V8 made headlines for all the wrong reasons in 2025. Internally known as the L87, it's been slapped with recalls and lawsuits since April of last year. The reason? It's mainly ...

The government is investigating dozens of new complaints about L87 V8s failing after a recall fix was supposed to resolve the ...

NHTSA just reopened the GM 6.2L V8 headache. On January 19, 2026, the agency said it opened a new recall query into about 597 ...

It didn’t take long for General Motors to go from announcing a massive recall to facing a class action lawsuit. Just a few weeks after GM recalled nearly 600,000 trucks and SUVs in the States due to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As of May 1, American automaker General Motors, which has a manufacturing plant in Tennessee, has recalled nearly 600,000 ...

Back in 2021, a class action lawsuit was filed against General Motors over valve lifter-related issues in certain Cadillac, Chevy and GMC models outfitted with certain V8 gasoline engines. That ...

With the launch of Chevy's small-block V8 in 1955, General Motors introduced an engine family that would make its way into millions of vehicles across the world. It was especially known as a mainstay ...

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 ...

As of May 1, American automaker General Motors, which has a manufacturing plant in Tennessee, has recalled nearly 600,000 full-size SUVs and trucks (721,000 globally). This is the largest recall of ...