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The Buick Riviera once defined “personal luxury car” with rear-wheel drive and big-block V8′s.Now that GM recently trademarked the Riviera name, it could be a signal of the return of a rear-wheel drive V8 to the Buick lineup.

The 80′s GM G-body coupes don’t get half the love they deserve. Luckily, Holley is hard at work on Project G-Force One, a G-body Pontiac Grand Prix with a 750 horsepower supercharged LS7 engine under the hood.

Lug nuts never get any love, but having the wrong ones can lead to disaster. Watch as this ’02 Camaro Z28 tries to go for a hard launch at the drag strip, only to sheer off BOTH rear wheels right off the starting line…That’ll leave a mark.

Honing the engine block of a Camaro ZL1 motor is a more intensive process than you might think. This video breaks down exactly how GM engineers keep the high horsepower LSA cylinder block from warping while they do the machine work.

Cadillac has finally put a price on its upcoming 3-Series fighter, the ATS. Starting at $33,990, the ATS undercuts the BMW by almost a grand…but will that really matter to buyers in the luxury car market? Click here for all the details…

Cadillac Racing has had a good season so far with the Pirelli World Challenge series, with drivings Johnny O’Connell and Andy Pilgrim sitting in 1st and 2nd respectively. In this next video, both drivers navigate us turn-by-turn through Miller Motorsports Park in Toole, Utah.

On paper, the Camaro ZL1 seems outmatched compared to the 2013 Shelby GT500 and its 662 horsepower. But give the guys at Lingenfelter two weeks to tune the ZL1, and they’ll give you 720 wheel horsepower and a 202 mph top speed. Check out the video of the run here. It’s on!

Speculation has been rampant that GM is plotting a new Chevy performance car called the SS. One intrepid blogger has uncovered via the OnStar website that this is indeed the case, and that the vehicle is planned for the 2014 model year. Can we get an Amen?

Ever want to own a classic Formula 1 car but couldn’t stomach the cost? Well for just $64,000, you can own an authentic-looking Honda RA273 Formula car powered by a not-authentic 5.3L Chevy small-block. Could this be the most perfect pairing, ever?

Fresh from the factory floor, the Camaro ZL1 makes 580 horsepower. However, in the hands of famed tuning house, Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, the ZL1 makes that much power at the wheels! Even so, it wasn’t quite enough to break into the 10-second quarter-mile range just yet. Click here to watch the video.

For 2013, GM is introducing a host of new high-tech and performance features for the 5th-generation Camaro. But is it enough to keep up with its main competitor, the 2013 Mustang? You tell us…after checking out this list of new features.

Video game companies pull out all the stops when it comes to a new launch, and Prototype 2 aims to be the next great game you play. To garner some attention, they are giving away a themed Camaro SS. Even if you don’t like video games, we bet you love Camaros… and here’s your chance to get one for free.

GM’s large-and-heavy Zeta platform seems doomed to be replaced sooner rather than later, though GM’s Mark Reuss has defended the $1 billion platform as viable going forward. But is it really?

We may never know if GM intended to base the C7 Corvette around the 2009 Stingray Concept, and we may never own such a car. But someone will end up with this remarkably accurate (save for the color) recreation of the unique GM concept Corvette.

GM plans to unveil the 2014 Chevy Impala at the New York Auto Show next month, and to build up anticipation, they’ve released this first teaser shot of the Impala’s rear pillar. So what info about the new Impala can we get from this single picture?

While rumors of a mid-engine Corvette will never die, we just don’t think it is going to happen. Ever. That is, unless you take matters into your own hands. The V7 Corvette is a custom job sporting a mid-mounted, twin-turbo LSx engine making about 1,000 horsepower. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

In a surprise announcement that has caught the aftermarket auto parts industry off-guard, SEMA announced its purchase of the Performance Racing Industry today. The deal is set to close at the end of March, and marks the marriage of two of the industry’s largest trade shows.

With the 2010+ Chevy Camaro being such a sales success, GM has a bit of a problem; how do they follow up such a great car? Among the concerns of GM’s designers are weight, looks, and fuel economy. How are they going to pull this one off?

In the Arab world, drifting isn’t the same as what we’ve come to expect. Rather, wealthy young men skate their cars across massive (and mostly empty) highways. Alas, these untrained drifters sometimes screw up, as is the case with the driver of this poor Chevy Caprice…

Muscle cars aren’t supposed to be good at autocrossing, but Brian Hobaugh’s LS3-powered ’73 Camaro is proves the popular mythos wrong. Just watch as he weaves in and out of an autocross course in a car built during Nixon’s first term in office.