The Amazing 20-Hour Process Of Building A New Ford F-150 Raptor

Bloomberg's Matt Miller just paid a visit to Ford's Dearborn Truck Plant known as "The Rouge" to pick up his new F-150 Raptor and see how the most popular pickup in America comes together. The setup is pretty impressive. Over the 20-hour course of a Ford F-150's assembly, 1,000 people...

May 4, 2025

Did Faulty Trailer Wiring Burn This FJ Cruiser To The Ground-- Twice?

Patrick of Dallas, TX had been towing with his 2012 for months, until a run with a rental trailer turned his truck into a ball of fire. Can we figure out what happened? Patrick took to to share his plight, video and a few pictures as well as a detailed...

May 4, 2025

Next Phase Of The Rally Fighter Features Intel Integration

My head was only still for a few seconds of my , but that's all it took for me to notice the accessory controls were the vehicle's biggest letdown. Local Motors is seeking to rectify that with the integration of an open-source "Galileo board" from Intel. A Galileo board is...

May 4, 2025

Why The 2015 Dakar Rally Could Look Very Different

The 2015 Dakar Rally will consume a 9,000 kilometer loop beginning and ending in Buenos Aires, Argentina and passing through Bolivia and Chile. Cars, trucks, and bikes will have more separation and alternate rest days to keep them out of each other's way. Peru will not be included in next...

May 4, 2025

Help Us Caption This Absurdly Anglogasmic Range Rover Marketing Photo

Believe it or not, Land Rover and fancy woodsy clothier Barbour have not been officially affiliated until now. Their celebratory press release included this clichebomb of a photo, which I sure hope you'll help us make a lot funnier. The companies announced their new partnership with a long-winded cut-n-paste from...

May 4, 2025

Motorcycling Legend To Drive In Peugeot's Off-Road Return To Dakar

Peugeot has announced its "lion will roar again" at the , when the French automaker is throwing its beret in the epic off-road race for the first time since 1990 with a new car and legendary motorcycle racer Cyril Despres at the wheel. Though this will be Despres' first-ever Dakar...

May 4, 2025

Beer Cans Littering The Street Like 'Walking Dead' Extras Is Tragic

Two semi-trucks collided at around 7 in the morning yesterday on I-95 in McIntosh County, Georgia. Nobody was hurt, unless you count boxes and boxes of spilled Budweiser as a mass casualty. Apparently some kind of mechanical failure caused a northbound truck to sideswipe another that was sitting on the...

May 4, 2025

An Amazing Articulating Air-Cooled Army Truck You Never Knew Existed

Before the Chevrolet Corvair was deemed "unsafe at any speed" its air-cooled engine saw duty in the AGL-4 truck; an incredibly capable GM Defense Research Laboratories experiment showcased here in some recently unearthed old archive footage. The Fallout 3-style clip's narrator tells us the AGL stood for "Articulated General-purpose Logistical...

May 4, 2025

This Trailer Has Me Fired Up About Racing All Over Again

Anyone with eyes can appreciate the glory of tires spitting sand in slow motion. And with insane trucks woven between cuts of epic landscapes over an evocative soundtrack, this trailer is downright inspiring. Maybe monologue is a little heavy, but the drama-dripping narration and high production value of the trailer...

May 4, 2025

Why Are These Non-Jeeps Pretending To Be Jeeps?

The only caption for 's photo here was "competitors on rocks." If Jeep's forcing other SUVs to wear its badge to participate in an event... that's egregious hazing if I ever saw it! ...

May 4, 2025

How The 2014 Chevy Silverado Is The Cheapest New Truck To Own

It's a bold claim, to be sure. But established automotive analysis outfits concur that the will have the lowest "ownership cost" of any new truck you can buy in America, almost any way you crunch the numbers. Vincentric, which provides analysis for several valuation firms including NADA Guides, announced Chevrolet...

May 4, 2025

I'd Live In A Scale Shed If It Comes With This RC 1966 Ford Bronco

The attention to detail in this is nothing short of spectacular. The little cabin almost looks ready to be lived in, and you can almost smell the oil leaking from the perfectly "aged" 1966 Ford Bronco. ...

May 4, 2025

All-Around Asshattery Ends In Instant Karma For Tailgating Truck

A Florida driver has documented just how much rage you give a tailgater by cruising in the left lane, with a side note on the importance of looking ahead while driving. There's no doubt the guy in this Ford F-250 was driving like a dick. But the filmmaker wasn't exactly...

May 4, 2025

Denver Bronco DeMarcus Ware Tries His Giant Hand At Off-Road Racing

Defensive end DeMarcus Ware has only just signed with the Denver Broncos, but he's already tossed his football helmet for a racing helmet to throw down in "America's oldest off-road race," the out of Las Vegas, Nevada. Ware's been in the NFL since 2005, and more recently become affiliated with...

May 4, 2025

This 6x6 Hilux Is The Truck You Need To Drive To The South Pole

Nineteen year old Parker Liautaud has just set a speed record for skiing from the Antarctic coast to the South Pole, followed by a beastly Toyota Hilux 6x6 to manage communications and collect data pertaining to climate change. The "Willis Resilience" Expedition set out to collect meteorological and environmental information...

May 4, 2025