The Libya Rally, 1,500 Miles From Libya, Has The Coolest Trailer

High production value, groovy soundtrack, and insane footage of some incredibly cool vehicles makes this my favorite desert racing clip right now. Reckon it's good enough to forgive organizers for naming another race after a place it doesn't go to? The 2014 Libya Rally is raging right now until April...

May 4, 2025

How Jeep Does Design A Little Differently In China

Jeep brought four special SUVs to this year's Beijing Motor Show. Two of them answered our most burning questions about the brand: will LED bars ever make it to the front bumper of a Wrangler and can you fit 20's on a Renegade? Yes, to both. I never would have...

May 4, 2025

The Cleanest Open-Wheeled Truck You Can Drive From An Adirondack Chair

A 1972 longbed Chevrolet C10 pickup crawled into a chrysalis and emerged as a beautiful butterfly of a hot rod with suicide doors, a scrunched up face, and front wheels open to the elements. Somehow, it all kinda comes together. Oh yeah, and the seats are "Adirondack style." Not sure...

May 4, 2025

The Most Beautiful 1979 Mercedes Is Half El Camino

Clean. Tasteful. Elegant. These are not adjectives I tend to reach for when we're looking at a car converted into a pickup truck, but this 1979 Mercedes-Benz 300TD-El Camino lovechild is one of the prettiest Jimmy Carter-era Mercs I've ever seen. It's a classic diesel car with heaps of utility...

May 4, 2025

Street Racing Idiots Turn Their SUVs Into Very Expensive Bumper Cars

"WHY DID YOU TURN?!" Looks like a BMW X6 can corner a little harder than a Mercedes-Benz ML 63 AMG, dealing instant karma for ass-hattery. Hat tip to Carscoops! ...

May 4, 2025

The Kawei K1 Is A Diesel, Manual, Shameless F-150 Knockoff From China

Kawei Auto took a good look at the shape of the Ford F-150; threw in a splash of chrome here, a Ranger-style vent there, wrapped it all around a tuner-car interior and strapped it to a 100 horsepower diesel engine so they could sell it for about $16,000. Our friends...

May 4, 2025

New Hennessey Cadillac Escalade Is An Ass-Hauling American Experience

Hennessey Performance can now boost the by about 140 horsepower with their HPE550 supercharger kit. Aesthetic mods are minimal, so you'll just have to watch for the 's Jurassic-Park-fence of a grille barreling down on you to know when to get the hell outta the way. The HPE550 includes a...

May 4, 2025

Is The Story Of ERF Trucks A Sad Allegory For Civilization?

A man runs with a great idea. That becomes obsolete, so he adapts and succeeds with another great idea. But then that man dies and everything he built is picked over and finally left for dead. This is the story of ERF trucks. Is this what's happening to our planet?...

May 4, 2025

Russian Semi-Truck Swings Like A Ship In The Perfect Storm

What the hell happened in the cab of this semi truck that made the driver swerve hard enough to damn-near dumped his rig onto its side... twice? Hat tip to Carscoops! ...

May 4, 2025

Recall Issued For Wayward Golf Carts Reigning Terror On The Green

E-Z-GO golf carts and off-road utility vehicles are being recalled because somebody at the factory didn't screw some steering wheels on tight enough, leaving the carts to run every which way at the pace of a potentially-lethal brisk walk. Apparently some 30,000 E-Z-GO, Cushman and Bad Boy Buggies carts are...

May 4, 2025

Icon's Land Rover D90 Makes The Original Look Like A Cheap Tractor

The Land Rover Defender is beautiful in its own agricultural stock glory. I've been perilously close to buying some heavily rusted "restorable" examples myself. But taking a deep dive with of Icon 4x4 shows how much prettier the truck can be when someone really sweats the details. After wrestling with...

May 4, 2025

Jacked-Up Jeeps Riding Through A Spaghetti Western

American Expedition Vehicles (AEV) brought us the , among other . Now those business-savvy bros are taking customers on trail rides to show them just what their machines can do, and will probably sell a bunch more gear as a result. This clip is basically a commercial for how much...

May 4, 2025

Luxurious, Off-Roadable, Hybrid Diesel: Can A Range Rover Have It All?

The Long Wheelbase has leg room has leg room for days, is one of the best stock off-roaders you can buy and gets 44 MPG in combined driving. Do we finally have a 4x4 that really can do everything? Land Rover has already proven that its Hybrid SUVs are ....

May 4, 2025

Formula 1 And Off-Road Racing Won't Coexist In Russia This Year

The Silk Way is one of the biggest off-road races on Earth. Modeled after the Dakar Rally, it's been attracting huge off-road teams to Russia since since 2009. But this year the Russian government decided dealing with the Sochi F1 and the rally was too much. Guess which one got...

May 4, 2025

Forget The Lasers, Tailgate Seating Is The SUV Option I Want

Land Rover really worked to impress us at the . No, not like all the other automakers— Rover rented out an aircraft carrier, for real. They blathered on about "" but slipped the SUV's coolest feature; fold-out tailgate party seats, into a dark corner of their press release. is awesome,...

May 4, 2025