Today’s cars and trucks are literally rolling test beds of technology, which has tended to make the days of the so-called shade tree mechanic and eyeball diagnoses of what ails a given model a distant ...

General Motors' Duramax diesel engine lineup has been powering GM trucks and SUVs and enthralling gearheads since its original release in 2001. While the most famous member of the Duramax roster is ...

Diesel engines, for all their rugged usefulness, can be tremendously polluting. They produce more NOx — nitrogen oxides-based emissions – than gasoline-fed cars, as well as more particulates, aka soot ...

Heavy duty diesel engines are designed for long hours and extreme loads, but even the toughest systems fail without early ...

About two decades after the launch of the 6.6-liter Duramax V8, GM's 3.0-liter Duramax inline-six turbodiesel arrived in 2019 with a promise to deliver "outstanding fuel economy, great horsepower, and ...

Like the trucks themselves, there also are many engines included in the long, rich history of Ford pickups, one of the biggest being the Power Stroke line of diesel engines. Some are iconic, ...

Problem rates for heavy-duty truck engines manufactured with emissions controls implemented in 2004 and 2007 are nearly twice as high, on average, as rates for engines built prior to these emission ...

Earlier this year, we found out that a class-action lawsuit had been filed against Ford over issues with its EcoBoost V6 engines. It turns out, those aren't the only EcoBoost engines in legal hot ...

Continuing our informal "series" on diesel-engine problems—common, and, not-so-common—we're focusing our attention on the Ford 6.7L Power Stroke (code name "Scorpion"), an engine developed exclusively ...