GM Gearing Up to Produce New Sixth-Gen Small Block V8 For Trucks and SUVs

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GM Gearing Up to Produce New Sixth-Gen Small Block V8 For Trucks and SUVs

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Old-timers who aren’t necessarily sold on the viability of electric vehicles received a bit of a reprieve from General Motors this week.

GM just announced plans to invest nearly a billion dollars to get its facilities ready to build a sixth generation of small block V8 gasoline-powered engines, according to a story by Motor Trend.

Those engines will be used in GM trucks and SUVs, but details like engine specs, applications, and exactly when they’ll be available for customers have not been released yet by the company, according to Motor Trend.

GM plans to invest a total of $918 million (with some $854 million reserved for V8s and the remaining $64 million for EVs) in four facilities that will handle the production of various internal parts for the new generation of V8 engines, as well as their final assembly.

The biggest investment is $579 million at Flint Engine Operations in Flint, Michigan, where all those parts will come together to build the final products. Another $216 million is going for camshafts and connecting rods at the Bay City GPS in Bay City, Michigan, with $47 million for block castings at Defiance Operations in Defiance, Ohio, and $12 million for intake manifolds and fuel rails at Rochester Operations in Rochester, New York.

That’s certainly good news for enthusiasts out there who may be on the fence about electric vehicles. Apparently, there will still be gasoline-powered new vehicles available for the next decade anyway, based on this news from GM.


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General Motors

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5 COMMENTS

  2. Greenies are finally realizing that fossil fuels can’t go away. Had to laugh yesterday, saw a Tesla model S dead on the highway. Well can’t blame engine problems or no gas.

  3. I don’t want an EV, including the E-Ray because of the impossibility of maintaining it later. Everything is going to be locked down with e cryption, despite the FCC ruling on right to repair. We are already at the point with C7s and C6s where good luck getting a replacement Body Control Module. You get to flash your Vin into the EPROM and there is literally zero reason for those parts to be restricted to a single Vin.. It’s only going to be WAY worse on all electric vehicles.

  4. Nevermind the ele trial grid has exactly zero chance of supporting the electric vehicles that states like California are mandating in the not-too-far future. If the government and consumers don’t wake up to this soon, we’re in for a future where you won’t be able to charge your EV (or cool your house, etc) and you’ll be hard pressed to find gas for your conventional vehicle.

  5. It’s gratifying to read these comments to find I’m not alone in same thoughts. Government- mandated electrification has too many unresolved issues for wide-spread implementation and consumer acceptance. I’ve waited seven decades to buy mid-engine Corvette; and when it finally arrived, it had boy-racer bodywork, cramped cockpit, and limited baggage capacity for cross-country touring. It’s gratifying to see GM “hedging its bets” with continuing gas powered small blocks, but our governor has already banned sales and registration of all new gas powered vehicles in Washington State starting in 2035. Fortunately, at 80, I won’t have to put up with this foolishness much longer.

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