It’s the late 1980s, and Toyota has spent most of the past decade building a reputation around reliability, efficiency, and no-nonsense engineering. Their practical, simple, and durable cars routinely ...

GM's LS engine has been swapped into all sorts of cars. Now some enthusiasts are swapping them into airplanes, though with plenty of modifications.

You've likely heard of plenty of Chevrolet engines known as "LS" in one form or another. But is there actually any deeper meaning to those letters?

Ryan de Villiers is a budding automotive journalist based in South Africa and serving as one of the newest additions to the CarBuzz team. He immediately pursued a career in journalism after finishing ...

You swap an engine when you want more power, and the GM LS range of engines is, with the Honda K-engines, the logical choice to achieve this. The LS engines are a range of small-block V8s made from ...

This American power unit has a track-record unlike any other modern V-8 engine.

Iconic engines. Think Honda's K-Series, Toyota's 2JZ-GTE, McLaren F1's V12, to name a few. In the last century, America has been the home of several iconic engines, from the Willys "Go-Devil" that ...

What was the first-ever Lexus? It was the LS, which made its debut for the 1990 model year to launch the Lexus brand. Back then the concept of a large Japanese luxury car was unusual, but no more—just ...

At the top of Lexus' car lineup is the LS full-size luxury sedan. The original 1990 LS was the first-ever Lexus, which established the brand as Toyota's luxury division. On sale today is the ...

There are so many little tasks in an engine swap. Anyone undertaking such a multi-step project is familiar with how you re-prioritize those steps, either consciously or unconsciously, on your mental ...