The Wildest, Weirdest, Home-Made Custom Vehicles

Many of you good readers have brought this 1998 Honda Accord to our attention today. With good reason— it's re-goshdarn-diculous. Who builds these wacky home-brewed, zombie-cars? Why? And what are some of the greatest ones you've ever seen? I don't think it's that hard to see the line between "modifications"...

May 5, 2025

You've Never Seen An 8x8 Off-Road Tow Truck So... Relaxing

A melodious soundtrack really changes the vibe on an off-road video. Watching this feels like being hauled off to heaven on the boom of this eight-wheeled wrecker. And such detail... if it weren't for the "giant grass" you might mistake it for the real thing! Check out more small-scale action...

May 5, 2025

Cool It With The 2015 Ford F-150 Awards 'Til Someone Actually Drives It

The New England Motor Press Association just bestowed the "Yankee Cup" award on the , reckoning it's "tougher, smarter and more capable," based on information that could only have come from Ford & Friends. Which only begs the question; what's the point of that? "The Yankee Cup is a technology...

May 5, 2025

SpinTires Will Bring Gran Turismo-Level Detail To An Off-Road Video Game

British software outfit Oovee has been tweaking and beta-testing their off-road simulator SpinTires for many moons. Now that the full-featured version is almost ready to go, I'm ready to believe this game might be the first and last title for ultra-realistic, aesthetically beautiful, off-road adventuring. SpinTires might be the first...

May 5, 2025

Brooklyn Outdoor Shop Will Drive You To The Woods To Use Your New Gear

Gear To Go Outfitters in Brooklyn, NY has realized none of their customers can actually use the stuff the store sells, so they're running a "Trail Taxi" shuttle service to get New Yorkers away from the infernal clatter of the subway and into the relative-wilderness of some upstate hiking trails....

May 5, 2025

Why Ram's Biggest, Baddest Off-Road Pickup Won't Get A Diesel Engine

Road & Track's Zach Bowman talked to Ram Trucks head of engineering Mike Cairns to find out why Ram passed on the 6.7-liter Cummins I6 and 3 liter EcoDiesel V6 options for their off-road work truck;the Power Wagon. Read right here on Road & Track: . ...

May 5, 2025

Kid Races Grampa's Car Through A Busy Park 'Til Vigilante Truck Rams Him

A 14-year-old kid commandeered his grandfather's Hyundai Veloster on Saturday, blazing through a park full of children and generally terrorizing Syracuse, Utah. His reign of mayhem was only reeled in when a citizen plowed into him with a Ram pickup. Miraculously, everyone walked away uninjured. Here's the on-scene cellphone footage...

May 5, 2025

Chrysler, Mitsubishi Teaming Up Again... To Make A Fiat Pickup Truck

It ain't no fun if the homies can't have none. Just when we thought we saw the last of any , Fiat is now courting the Japanese automaker for a new pickup truck. Diamond Star Motors lives! According to , Fiat will essentially rebadge a version of Mitsubishi's L200 large...

May 5, 2025

New Nissan Pickup Gets LED Eyebrows, But Styling Stays Conservative

Nissan just trotted out this teaser of their next pickup truck, which they promise to reveal all of on June 11th. It looks small enough to be the and Navara to me, but the roofline is reminiscent of the current Titan. Whichever slot the new truck slides into, it looks...

May 5, 2025

Dog Rides A Truck Into River Rapids, Harrowing Rescue Ensues

Jessie the dog was just hangin' out in the bed of owner Paul Picolet's Ford F-250 this weekend when it up and rolled into the Chewuch River. The dog decided against swimming, so Okanogan County's Swiftwater Rescue Team was deployed to pluck the pup and carry it to safety. Vikki...

May 5, 2025

Chinese Knockoff Batmobile Is Just $11,207, Some Assembly Required

26-year-old Li Weilei and friends have built a full-scale Tumbler Batmobile replica out of scrap metal at a warehouse in Shanghai. Doesn't look quite as off-road ready as the , but apparently it was built for about 11 grand. Oh, and it can't actually move under its own power. Check...

May 5, 2025

See How The 2015 Ford F-150 Is Built At A Whole New Level Of High Tech

With its unprecedented utilization of aluminum, the will go through a manufacturing process Ford claims technologically surpasses anything they've ever done. One thing's for sure, those enormous rivet guns are insane. Ford's engineers say the new F-150's assembly line represents a culmination of everything they've been innovating on over the...

May 5, 2025

2016 Mercedes GLK Loses Some Hard Edges, Slated For Sale In New Markets

A camouflaged 2016 Mercedes GLK SUV has been spied testing in Dubai, and it looks like the sharp creases of the current bodystyle have been sanded down for a softer look. What we can see of the new front end is a dead ringer for the current C-Class. caught this...

May 5, 2025

What Do You Want To Know About The 2015 Lincoln MKC?

I'm among the first group of journalists to drive the 2015 Lincoln MKC— a little SUV FoMoCo hopes will propel their brand into a new era of coolness. I'm going to give it as much hell as the handlers let me... but what should I be looking out for in...

May 5, 2025

The Troller T4 Is The Modern Ford Bronco We Need And Deserve

If you made a list of all the American classic cars we'd like to see resurrected, the classic would rank pretty high up there. Troller, a division of Ford, just debuted the most desirable neo-Bronco I think I've seen yet. Too bad it's not headed our way. This is the...

May 5, 2025