When most people think about engine swaps, they want to go bigger and better. Gen III and Gen IV GM LS engines are all the rage, and for good reason, but bigger isn't always better when you're trying ...

You may be reading this and wondering why PHR is doing a story on a four-banger. The answer is simple: this new turbocharged Ecotec makes V-8 power, while retaining four-cylinder fuel mileage. To ...

General Motors is stepping up its engine game. Today it released first details of a new range of three- and four-cylinder Ecotec engines from 1.0 to 1.5 liters that replace no fewer than three ...

The standard 2.5-liter, 197-horsepower engine that comes on the Malibu LS, LT and LTZ trim levels should be enough power for anyone. But Chevrolet is now making a brand-new 2.0-Liter turbocharged ...

Automotive engine technology has come a long way since Carl Benz put a one-cylinder 2/3 horsepower engine on the Patent Motorwagen in the late 19th century. Modern engines are cleaner-burning, highly ...

General Motors Co. will pour $185 million into a former Saturn car plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., to make a new generation of small gas engines to power some of its bestselling small cars and crossovers ...

GM introduced its new modular family of Ecotec engines on Wednesday at its powertrain headquarters in Pontiac, Mich. The new, reduced-in-size three- and four-cylinder mills will replace three of GM's ...

PONTIAC, MICHIGAN—Kendell Fulton, one of the key engineers behind General Motors' ambitious new portfolio of engines, patted two of the powerplants and said with a smile, "If both of these were ...

General Motors has announced a new lineup of Ecotec engines that will power its smaller offerings through the end of the decade. Slated to arrive in both three- and four-cylinder applications, the ...

Developed by an international A-team of GM engineers and then refined by Lotus Engineering, the DOHC four-cylinder Ecotec is considered by the General to be the small-block Chevy of four-cylinders. A ...