Good morning and welcome to The Downshift, or TDS for short. Dense, tight, and quick, TDS gathers the latest automotive news from around the globe and puts it in one spot. Stories are summarized in a ...

If you’re off-roading, it’s a neat idea to use your engine to top up your battery, which prompted Bluetti to launch the Charger. You could hook it to your alternator and draw off energy as you drove ...

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 may have been the most underrated game to release in 2025. It's difficult to say that about a title that came fourth in our own Game of the Year 2025 list and picked up ...

Taking all that in, some may conclude that the premium fuel may account for the horsepower difference. However, the real reason is a bit more nuanced. We reached out to General Motors for details on ...

11 lawsuits over GM’s 6.2L L87 V8 have been consolidated into a single class action, centered on engine failures tied to crankshaft and connecting-rod defects. More than 700,000 GM trucks and SUVs ...

Battlefield 6 has apparently been preventing 2.39 million attempts at cheating in online matches, which says a lot about the state of online play. While cheating has always been a factor in gaming, ...

One of the most significant contributions in the history of propulsion technology came from a 19th-century engineer named Rudolf Diesel. While his idea was patented in the 1890s, it wouldn't be until ...

Want to use The Outer Worlds 2 console commands? No matter how good the RPG is, there comes a point where you'll feel the urge to use console commands to aid you in some way. The console can be used ...

The replacement for that engine, though, is anything but ordinary. Stellantis’s new Hurricane 4 uses a few high-tech tricks—unusual in an engine that will be produced by the hundreds of thousands—to ...

Update, 2:45pm: This post has been updated to clarify the relationship between this latest investigation and GM's earlier recall of the L87 engine. Hysterical fears that V-8 engines would be wiped ...

Alex Co has been writing about games for 15 years and running, and is a huge fan of online shooters and anything horror related. Regardless of the game, it's never fun to deal with cheaters. It's not ...