For all the talk of EV mandates and changing tastes, there’s a long future for the V8 in the United States. It has proven to be the right mill for the kinds of big trucks and SUVs that make up a large portion of America’s fleet,

An $888 million investment will make the GM Tonawanda plant the second facility confirmed to produce GM's sixth-generation Small Block V8 engines.

The company said the investment marks its largest single investment in an engine plant, and makes Tonawanda its second propulsion plant to produce the sixth generation of V-8 engines.