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