Only one American engine family switched its fundamental firing sequence mid-production run without changing the car around it. The Chevrolet Camaro happened to be sitting right on top of it…
Few vehicles on American roads carry as much engine history under one nameplate as the Chevrolet Express. A van built in 2001 and one built in 2025 might look nearly…
Cadillac only needed two engine families to cover the entire first-generation SRX lineup. By the time the nameplate retired in 2016, three different V6 displacements and one V8 had passed…
Three distinct engine families powered the Cadillac CTS across its 2003 to 2019 run, and each one fires its cylinders in a completely different sequence. A base sedan built around…
The Buick Enclave has been powered by one engine family across its entire production run — GM's High Feature 3.6-liter V6. Different engine codes arrived with each generation, power outputs…
The Volvo EX30 arrived as something genuinely unexpected — a Scandinavian luxury electric SUV that was also the fastest Volvo ever made, packaged into a body smaller than a Corolla…
As we know every engine has a heartbeat, and for the Buick LaCrosse, that heartbeat is its firing order. Get it wrong during a tune-up, and the engine will cough,…
Most MDX owners never need to think about firing order — until a cylinder misfire code appears on the dashboard and suddenly it becomes the most important number in the…
Beauty in a car is never an accident. It is the result of someone — a designer, an aeronautical engineer, a sculptor who happened to work in aluminum — making…
Front bench seats were once as standard as a steering wheel. Slide across, make room, and pack everyone in — that was the original logic of American vehicle design. Then…