Are Trucks 'Saving The American Economy?'

Derek Thompson of The Atlantic says trucks are so hot right now— selling at more than twice the rate of cars and essentially driving American transportation spending. He's got some great graphs, but is he right? Apparently people in the US spend more on new and used vehicles than health...

May 5, 2025

Vintage Fuel Truck Is Pretty As The Montana Mountains It's Posing With

With a retro-futuristic art deco design and perfect patina, this 1941 Ford Cab-Over-Engine "Aero Fuel Truck" might be the best thing unearthed on eBay all year. Seller says it's rear-wheel drive with a Mercury 239 V8 under the hood. Er, I mean under the cab. Rust looks minimal and a...

May 5, 2025

Who Watched That Wild Container-Truck Police Chase?

The California Highway Patrol just ran down a big ass stolen Freightliner truck carrying an empty container (trash dumpster?) For those of you who didn't with us... it was some GTA IRL shit. As of 5:33 PM EST. Apparently the chase started at around 1 PM Pacific Time today about...

May 5, 2025

'Only In Maine:' Truck Spills Potato Load Swerving Around A Moose

A trucker is telling Maine State Police he was trying avoid a moose when he put his potato-hauling semi-truck into the ditch, splitting the cargo box and starting an impromptu potato farm on the side of Interstate 295. He got off with minor leg injuries. Hat tip to 505Turbeaux, images...

May 5, 2025

Freightliner, CASE, & Mercedes Make The Ultimate Construction Unimog

If you ever wanted to do build a badass off-road course, and then run it with the same vehicle, I think you've found your weapon of choice. Hanging out ,this special 1989 Unimog 419 was something of a collaborative project between Freightliner and Mercedes; with Merc providing the base and...

May 5, 2025

Google Car Is A Toy, But Self-Driving Trucks Could Change The World

Semi-truck driving seems like exactly the kind of repetitive, yet awareness-intensive activity that robots were born to bear the burden of. Why bother with a self-driving when 'bots could be taking the efficiency of ground transport to a whole new level? I concede there are some obvious issues with autonomous...

May 5, 2025

Absurd Machines Of Upcoming Rob Lowe 'Monster Truck Movie' Spotted

Everyone who seems to know agrees that Rob Lowe has joined Danny Glover, Lucas Till, and some other less-famous people to make a live-action/CGI hybrid action/comedy movie about monster trucks. I know, right? But that's about all anybody knows; every outlet confirming the movie's existence also says the plot is...

May 5, 2025

2015 Ford F-150 Prototypes Have Been Working At A Gold Mine Since 2011

Ford's PR team has been snapping pictures of their trucks in action at the massive Barrick gold mine in Nevada. One caption revealed these F-150s are aluminum 2015 prototypes disguised in the old body style, and have been in service for three years! No details yet on how the trucks...

May 5, 2025

VW Built A Pickup With A 5,000 Watt Sound System, Because Partytime

Volkswagen went happy hardcore once again for the Wörthersee festival with the Amarok Power Concept. Rumor has it that the 5,000 watt DJ set can only play Scooter. Summer is officially here, and what better to celebrate than by integrating a fully portable sound system into a custom Amarok pickup?...

May 5, 2025

Owners Didn't Know They Were Driving 2015 Ford F-150 Prototypes [Update]

Last night we learned the Barrick Gold Mine has been working prototypes . They weren't the only company testing the trucks, but nobody knew what exactly they were driving. Some of the drivers at the mine gave their impressions on the F-150 for a Ford video. They say they knew...

May 5, 2025

Tide Drowns 'Hundreds' Of Vehicles On Florida Beach 'With No Warning'

Over 100 vehicles got a salt bath at Huguenot Memorial Park in Jacksonville, FL over Memorial Day Weekend when a car got stuck and blocked the only escape from rising tide. Somebody complained "they were not warned." Not sure who could have possibly issued a warning that a vehicle might...

May 5, 2025

We Took A Ford F-150 Autocrossing And We Didn't Die

"View's a little different from up here," said an SCCA instructor kung-fu gripping the passenger handle of the black-striped red 2014 Ford F-150 FX2 Tremor. I was criss-crossing the race line on his track like Barney Gumble at a sobriety test and of course, he was right. Truck yeah we...

May 5, 2025

Double The Size Of Your Audi Q3 With This Space-Age Inflatable Tent

Audi has teamed up with outdoor company heimplanet to build an rough-weather-ready geodesic retractable tent for the Q3 SUV. I'm not sure how deep into the great outdoors a Q3 could really get, but you'll certainly look cool wherever you pitch this bad boy. The tent has just been presented...

May 5, 2025

2014 Baja 500 Trailer Shows A Tight Course & Some Big Roll-Overs

The 2014 SCORE Baja 500 trailer has the angriest soundtrack of any promo I've ever watched, but it's cool to see how skinny the course gets at points. Looks like some classes were right on top of each other this year, too. Got some clips of your own to share?...

May 5, 2025

Ford Festiva 6-Wheel Pickup Looks Like Something Out Of A Cute LEGO Set

A bright-red 1991 Ford Festiva with a badger on the door, pickup bed and six wheels is about to join baby sloths, lemurs, and ducklings in the elite fellowship of things that make you go d'awww! On right now for $8,900, the seller of this badger brandishing one-off says it...

May 5, 2025