Ford Dearborn Truck Plant Promo Makes You Warm & Fuzzy For The F-150

Of everybody selling pickup trucks in the US, Ford owns promotional videos. Will you remember how many tons of wood they've recycled at Dearborn at the end of this clip? No, but you'll feel all warm and fuzzy inside and just might be ready to throw down for a 2015...

May 5, 2025

How To Stay Calm When Some Selfish Asshole Wrecks Your Car And Splits

On Friday night I parked the we're evaluating legally on a well-lit Brooklyn street. On Saturday I came back to two ravaged starboard doors and a scratch running the length of the side. No note, no way to ID the perpetrator. Nothing to say but "Well, S###." Initially I was...

May 5, 2025

Huge Pickup Truck Crash Results In Everyone Being "F*cking Good"

You just flipped your Chevrolet pickup truck spectacularly into the sand. You're upside down. So how are you? Well, according to these folks, they're "fucking good!" If they were honest, they probably could be better though. This crash occurred this past weekend at the Silver Lake Sand Dunes. These guys...

May 5, 2025

Why Trucks Beat Fighter Jets, From Someone Who's Driven Both

I have driven Trophy Trucks and I have flown the F/A-18. People always ask me which is more fun. I always tell them that the Trophy Truck is more fun – by far. And when they ask why, I say, "Because it's pure, visceral freedom." —Kent Kroeker Marine-turned-off-road racer and...

May 5, 2025

Meet The Huron: Darth Vader's Terrifying SWAT Team Schoolbus

I'm pretty sure that 75% of the Jalopnik readership is composed of warlords, dictators (deposed and serving), and various other fiercely important players in highly dangerous environments. I know I am. That's why I'm proud to present the global introduction of ' new armored personnel carrier, the Huron. The Huron...

May 5, 2025

Tipping Crane Drops Steel Beam Of Death On Baseball Diamond In Boston

On Friday morning Boston Fire responded to a crane collapse that put the business end of a boom truck right on third base at the Puopolo Park baseball diamond in the North End neighborhood. The crane operator and one bystander were treated by paramedics, but no one was killed. Fortunately...

May 5, 2025

Power Stroke Vs. Cummins Rivalry Is Stepping Up To Even Bigger Trucks

Ford and Navistar had been collaborating since 2001. Nav had the factory, Ford had the money, and they each got their own brand of medium-duty commercial trucks out of the deal. But Ford's broken off to go proprietary, and just like that former friends become rivals. The joint venture, "Blue...

May 5, 2025

Teal & Patina'ed Commercial Cab Joins The Natural Colorado Skyline

What's the year, make, and model on this retired landscaping truck? [/Flickr] ...

May 5, 2025

It Takes A Helicopter To Appreciate How Hard Off-Road Racing Really Is

Off-road racing is one of the most difficult sports to spectate. We stand sweating in the sun for hours for a glimpse of each vehicle and a face full of dirt. Somehow, it's more fun than it sounds... but the sidelines got nothing on the unadulterated chase view of a...

May 5, 2025

Grown Man Still Spending His Days Digging Dirt Jumps, And Loving It

Whether it was for bikes, 'boards, or remote-control trucks, a lot of us have great childhood memories digging dirt courses. Dave King took it to the next level, made dirt-track construction for BMX bikes his livelihood. King's got his own sport-landscaping outfit called Dirtsculpt, and builds some of the most...

May 5, 2025

Is China Importing Grey-Market Ford F-250s For Their Police?

Caught in action at an "anti-terror drill" in Beijing on May 15th, this is unmistakably a Ford F-250 Super Duty in Chinese SWAT Police livery on their 6th Ring Road. Ford doesn't sell the Super Duty in China, so how the hell did that happen? Ford is not offering F-250s...

May 5, 2025

Somebody Better Turn This Stretched Lexus LX Into An Off-Road Limo

A 1997 Lexus LX 450 is essentially an 80-Series Land Cruiser. That's a pretty solid off-road base, and look... somebody's added twenty feet of luxury to one! Get a lift kit and some good tires on this thing for the ultimate ferry to that backcountry brothel. on a classified site...

May 5, 2025

Watch Idiotic Firefighters Do Just About Everything Wrong At A Car Fire

It would appear that the fire department of Daran, Isfahan, Iran, has at least one operational fire apparatus, but not a single firefighter on staff who knows how to fucking run it without needlessly putting themselves in extreme danger. I broke down regarding car fires when I went to my...

May 5, 2025

Send The World One Last 'F You' With This Gloriously Gaudy Hearse

Spotted in Racine, Wisconsin— somebody's rolling to the grave in a custom Cadillac fit for a pharaoh. I... kind of love it? Why does death have to be such a somber occasion anyway? Maybe I want to be memorialized by a gold Caddy riding on what look like those wire...

May 5, 2025

New Ford 6.7 Power Stroke Diesel Good For Up To 725 Lb.-Ft. Of Torque

Ford has announced the 6.7 Power Stroke diesel in will be available in three power levels, starting with the highest standard output in class. As the only commercial truck company building engines and bodies, Ford thinks they'll be able to deliver a more seamless package than anybody. The second generation...

May 5, 2025