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Atlas engine family: GM’s lost inline-5 experiment

In the late 1990s, General Motors faced a massive engineering crisis. The famous, iron-block 4.3-liter Vortec V6 – basically a small block Chevy without two cylinders – was a bulletproof workhorse. It powered millions of S-10 pickups, Blazers and Astro vans with years of farm reliability. But like any

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Which American car best symbolizes this great 250-year experiment?

Americans may not have invented the car, but the country has made itself the center of automotive production in the world. Henry Ford’s production lines created an important template for every automotive company we see today in mass production all over the world. Without Detroit and American innovation, would

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