The Best Jumps, Crashes, & Fires From The TORC Truck Race In Charlotte

Charlotte Heights, North Carolina played host to the on the weekend of April 25th, which gave them even more hours of epic jumping, rollovers, and fire-belching-exhaust-pipes footage to make one hell of a one-minute highlight reel. April 25th's race was won by Johnny Greaves (Pro 4), CJ Greaves (Pro 2),...

May 5, 2025

Dakar 'Big Truck' Racing At The Baja 500, If They Remember To Sign Up

Gerard De Rooy, almost-winner of last year's "big truck" class at Dakar, is reportedly competing in this year's Baja 500 as per his team's Facebook page. Problem is, he's nowhere to be found on the official 2014 Baja 500 entry list and the registration deadline is tomorrow. Somebody get that...

May 5, 2025

The Biggest Off-Road Adventure Convention In America Is This Weekend

The Overland Expo is an annual gathering off all things off-road and adventure travel. Think ComicCon but with khaki shirts and Merrells instead of Batman blouses and Starfleet uniforms. So yeah, I went last year and had the Best Time Ever. This year's event is taking place this weekend: May...

May 5, 2025

Watch A Pickup Truck Take Down A Car In An Act Of Road Rage Gone Wrong

A dash cam recorded a pickup truck tailgate then side-swipe a sedan on San Diego's Interstate 8 last Saturday, sending both vehicles tumbling like a cartoon animal fight in the breakdown lane. There's really no "right" way to do road rage, it's only a terrific way to stick a wrench...

May 5, 2025

Oshkosh M-ATV Is The Next War Machine Going To Battle Without A Driver

Oshkosh's freshly-updated M-ATV, a giant off-road war machine they consider "medium," is now being fitted with the company's TerraMax technology. This allows the M-ATV to , with the purpose of clearing paths for larger, clumsier cargo-transporting trucks that are more vulnerable to attack. This year's M-ATV has been up-fitted from...

May 5, 2025

This Off-Road Party Barge Is A Redneck's Wet Dream

This is pretty much just another classic clip of party animals mud wrestling and turning fuel into noise... until "Purple Platinum" shows up. It looks like something Jimmy Buffett might have commissioned in a cocaine rage, not to mention tremendously unsafe and a lot of fun. It's basically the ultimate...

May 5, 2025

Should America Force Mexico To Free A US Marine They Busted With Guns?

Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmorressi has been locked up in Mexican jails since March, when for possessing firearms on their side of the border. Tahmorressi maintains he's incarcerated over a misunderstanding, and some members of Congress want to suspend US aid to Mexico until charges are dropped. The Marine is slated...

May 5, 2025

2014 Baja 500 Route Features Beaches, Lake Beds, Mountainous Terrain

The Official 2014 Baja 500 route has been announced; it'll be a 446.9 mile loop starting and ending in Ensenada with a long run down the Mexican west coast, sprints back and fourth across the Diablo Dry Lake, and a charge back north through the hills in the middle of...

May 5, 2025

Pickup Pulls Semi-Truck Out Of The Sand In Badass Beach Recovery

Somebody decided the beach of South Padre Island, Texas was just a fine place to park a semi-truck cab, until it was . Luckily for them somebody showed up with a stout pickup, which beat that old devil wheelspin to rescue the rig. Two Ford F-150s are daisy-chained to the...

May 5, 2025

Watch Maniacs Race Tandem-Tractor Rally Carts Around A Wild Dirt Track

Apparently insane tandem rally cart races have been going down for 26 years in Betxi, Spain. This year Red Bull took it upon themselves to sponsor the event, and 50 teams brought their own sketchy lawnmower-powered off-road contraption to pit against the others and a hell of a hairy track....

May 5, 2025

Dump Truck Rusts In Peace: Pike County, Ohio

Can anyone identify this old dump truck, rotting by Route 335 in Pike County, Ohio? [/Flickr] ...

May 5, 2025

'Obliteration By Overpass' Is Why There Are Height Limits On Parkways

A reader driving on a New York's Meadowbrook State Parkway, which prohibits commercial truck traffic, watched this rig destroy itself by scraping against one overpass after another until it was finally reduced to derelict status on the roadside. It doesn't look like the cab took too much damage, but the...

May 5, 2025

Dartz Turned A 6x6 G-Wagen Into The MRAP From Die Hard 5

Remember that we saw dressed up like an evil Tonka Truck, peeking out of a jet plane? It was built by Russian luxo-warmachine factory "Dartz" for a customer who wanted them to recreate the 6-wheeled monster military truck from Die Hard 5. You won't remember Die Hard 5: A Good...

May 5, 2025

Honda Just Made The First ATV With Paddle Shifters

To win some much-needed attention in the Side-By-Side ATV market, the 2015 Honda Pioneer 500 will be the first vehicle of its type to come with a paddle-shifted electronic transmission. Honda has been stalled at "also ran" status in the Side-By-Side scene, cowering in the shadow of industry-dominating entries from...

May 5, 2025

1 Millionth Land Rover Discovery: Sexier Than The Three-Door Original?

Land Rover's venerable PR machine paraded every generation of Discovery through Windsor Great Park today. Check out the first-ever Disco next to the millionth one built. They've definitely given her a prettier smile, but they really nailed the graphics on that three-door. The facelifted Discovery II from 2003-2004 will always...

May 5, 2025