This Is How A Pickup Truck Pretends To Be A Horribly 80's Sports Car

A reader spotted this perversion of what I think was once a Jeep Comanche, which now looks like some weird blend of overwrought retro sportiness sitting on a set of American Racing wheels. With sculpted slopes all over the place and intakes for days this has got to be one...

May 4, 2025

I Really Hope The 2015 Infiniti QX80 Is Going To Look Less Offensive

Nissan is promising a new face and fancier trim for their new flagship fatass SUV, the 2015 Infiniti QX80. The current QX has been one of my favorite designs to hate since it was introduced in 2011, so I'm actually pretty excited it's finally going under the knife. The QX...

May 4, 2025

Luxury Trash Truck Company Exists, Rolls With Supercars Because Dubai

Russians are setting up shop in Dubai to bust a whole new market wide-open: luxury garbage collection. And they've got the slick Scania garbage trucks escorted by a fleet of babes in supercars to make it happen. Head spinnin'? Let me break it down for you, compadre: MAG Group Dubai...

May 4, 2025

Land Rover Wants To Help Richard Branson Send People To Space

That Virgin Galactic spaceship isn't just parked next to the new Land Rover Discovery Concept on the deck of the Intrepid for a sweet photo op, it's a tie-in for Richard Branson's announcement that Land Rover will be the first corporate parnter to his his space-fairing venture. The spaceship isn't...

May 4, 2025

Discovery Concept Is A Trick To Make Us Accept A Land Rover Crossover

Land Rover put on a hell of a show unveiling the , raising us up a jet elevator on the USS Intrepid to bask in the SUV's glory. But after a closer look, I have to say I won't be holding my breath for its coolest features to see production...

May 4, 2025

Launching A Rocket Off A Remote Control Truck Looks Like A Blast

Giant many-axle'd ballistic-transportation trucks can be some of the meanest looking war machines out there, but this twelve wheel RC just looks like a lot of fun to play with. This has been another small-scale ! ...

May 4, 2025

1964 Land Rover Races Were The Best, Britishest Shenanigans Ever

With all this talk about , and , I think it's time to look back at why we fell in love with Land Rover in the first place— it's really the only vehicle for throwing down mudslingin' mayhem in peacoats and scally caps. Enjoy watching some British lads and ladies...

May 4, 2025

2015 Jeep Renegade Gearing Up For World Conquest With Three Plants?

When the was first announced, we were hearing sales-target rumors of . But new information has come to light suggesting Jeep's planning to sell way, way more. Jeep representatives are still staying quiet on numbers, but reports Chrysler is planning to christen their new plant in Goiana, Pernambuco, Brazil with...

May 4, 2025

GM Sets Price For Heavy Duty Pickup CNG Conversion At $9,500

GM's is converting heavy duty pickups to run on compressed natural gas for $9,500, adding to their CNG-capable fleet that already includes their van lineup and soon the Impala sedan. The Chevrolet and GMC vehicles are setup to be "bi-fuel capable," meaning they can still run on gasoline when CNG...

May 4, 2025

2015 Infiniti QX80 Gets A Facelift, Still Looks Like A Cyborg Bull

The has been subtly tweaked to look a little more closely related to the and get a larger rear bumper. It's a little sleeker up front, but the style is still polarizing. A "Limited" trim with even more chrome will also join the lineup for 2015. A new lower-grille and...

May 4, 2025

Here's How You Might Drive Your Next SUV From A Smartphone

Land Rover went a little bland with the design on their , but they made a good effort to compensate by cramming in a Starship Enterprise complement of gadgets. And the is far and away the coolest one. The concept Discovery uses lasers to survey terrain and determine the depth...

May 4, 2025

2015 Jeep Renegade Looks Twice The Size Of Jeep CEO Mike Manley

It's not Photoshop, folks. The just looks happens to look tiny while their CEO Mike Manley looks enormous from this angle. In person, it really does look more like a toy than I expected. Manley didn't reveal anything we didn't already know about the upcoming Renegade; it's a with a...

May 4, 2025

2015 Nissan Murano Is Striking In Person, And Not Just For A Crossover

It's usually easy to dismiss an automaker's PR rhetoric about how the iconoclastic awesomeness of a new crossover SUV, but I have to give Nissan some credit for taking the for a walk on the wild side. Over-lit computer-tweaked press photos don't really do justice to just how many curves...

May 4, 2025

Trucker Freaks Out As Big Rigs Crash In Slow-Motion On An Icy Highway

All hell broke loose on Interstate 80 in Wyoming earlier this week when icy conditions caused one semi-truck to plow into another, and another, in a vicious domino disaster. Calamity and some classic CB chatter ensues. Sorry about the Blair Witch camera work. ...

May 4, 2025

Land Rover LR2 Replacement Arrives In 2015 As The Discovery Sport

Land Rover Design Chief Gerry McGovern just announced that Land Rover's next SUV, which will be known as the Discovery Sport, will be "the most capable and versatile SUV in its class" when it goes on sale in 2015. The new Discovery will replace the LR2 at the "soft road"...

May 4, 2025