How NASCAR Truck Racer 'Dirty Bubba' Earns His Nickname In Practice

Before giving 'em hell in the NASCAR Trucks "" race at Eldora Speedway this week, driver Bubba Wallace AKA "Dirty Bubba" lets his truck rip on a dusty little dirt track in Rural Virginia. Here's raw in-truck footage of a few laps if you want to hear the glorious exhaust...

May 6, 2025

2015 Ford F-150 Weighs Less Than 5,000 Pounds, 2.7 V6 Makes 325 HP

The 's little 2.7 EcoBoost V6 will be able to tow 8,500 pounds with 325 horsepower and 375 lb-ft of torque. Official curb weight a 2015 F-150 SuperCrew Lariat, one of the larger models, is a slim 4,942 lbs. The current 3.7 base V6 is dropped for a 3.5, but...

May 6, 2025

Life-Sized Ninja Turtles 'Pizza Thrower' Hits 75 MPH, Shoots Real Pizza

"The toughest part was getting it to throw pizzas hard enough to look cool, but without hurting anybody." Did you have the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles "Pizza Thrower" toy? I did, along with joyous memories running around my parent's house shooting the shit out of my friends with it. Well...

May 6, 2025

Watch The 2015 Ford F-150 Race Ram & Chevy Up Davis Dam Towing 7,000 Lbs

Now that the specs on the 's have been officially announced, Ford just can't wait to show you how much faster their truck can haul a huge trailer up Davis Dam– that huge, hot, of a climb used by the SAE to for towing. Looks like all the trucks are...

May 6, 2025

Spies Say The Next-Gen Ford Raptor 'Sounds Like An EcoBoost V6'

Spy shots of been cropping up here and there of the next-generation Ford Raptor. They pretty much look like regular Raptors with weird rags draped over the grille, but a photographer has finally reported something interesting about it: apparently it sounds like a turbo V6. grabbed some images from photography,...

May 6, 2025

Riding In A Push Truck Around Eldora Speedway

It's hard to describe the atmosphere at a big dirt track race, but it's easy to understand it when you hop into a truck and start ripping sideways around the track with a complete stranger. Matt and I have just parked our RV and walked into the Eldora infield ()...

May 6, 2025

The Incredible All-Female Off-Road Rally You've Probably Never Heard Of

2014 marks the 25th year of the "Rallye Aïcha Des Gazelles;" a off-road navigation rally in the Moroccan desert with an exclusively female field of competitors. Autoblog's got to tag along and write up the adventure from the passenger seat. "Over nine days and six stages, each driver-navigator team has...

May 6, 2025

Ninja Turtles 'Pizza Thrower' Is Ready, Here's How YOU Can Shoot A Pizza

Here's the first picture of the on its way to Comic-Con where attendees will be able to shoot pizzas (albeit faux to avoid food waste) at targets like Shredder and The Foot Clan. You'd hardly recognize a 2002 Toyota Tacoma under there, right? This thing has been shockingly under-photographed for...

May 6, 2025

If Snoop Dogg Went Redneck, This Is What He'd Drive

The suicide-door'ed Lincoln Continentals of the mid 1960's are some of the coolest, most collectable luxobarges I can imagine. That's why I just can't decide what to make of today's "Nice Price Or Crack Pipe" classified question; is a lifted Lincoln worth $9,000? I know, I know... never buy someone...

May 6, 2025

The 6.2 V8 Ford F-150 Is Officially Dead For 2015, And Good Riddance

"The F-150 is dropping the 6.2 V8 for 2015. The 3.5 EcoBoost will become the premium engine, it along with the 5.0 will be carried over... but stay tuned for the new output of those engines." Ford told me last night. Guess that pretty much confirms we're looking at a...

May 6, 2025

Watch This Indian Worker Load His Backhoe Into A Truck With No Ramp

"Ramps? Ramps are for sissies," says this amazing Indian backhoe operator as he loads his backhoe into a truck without a ramp. Holy f-ing crap. This is one of those things that makes you hold your breath. How the hell did he get his backhoe into the truck bed? And...

May 6, 2025

2015 Porsche Cayenne Gets Plug-In Hybrid, "S" Drops V8 For V6 Turbo

The SUV now has a plug-in hybrid variant, borrows the 's turbo V6 in "S" trim and gets a tweaked look, dominated by headlights that look like spider-eyes Porsche calls "." A Porsche Cayenne Hybrid is already available, but 2015 will be the first year of a plug-in version. "The...

May 6, 2025

The '732 Lbs Lighter' 2015 Ford F-150 V6 Was Weighed Against A 2014 V8

It is very impressive that a Lariat four-door, one of the model's heavier setups, will only weigh 4,942 pounds. But it's important you know part of that "732 pound weight savings" came from the 2014 having a V8, while the 2015 had Ford's new 2.7 V6. Granted, the difference in...

May 6, 2025

This Craigslist Ad Will Break Every Truck Enthusiasts' Heart

"I was told this is an ... Some type of 4 cylinder engine." It's enough to make an enthusiast weep. I'm all for an "extreme-makeover" level restoration but I'm pretty sure this thing is at the point where the owner pays someone to haul it off, not the other way...

May 6, 2025

We've Finally Found A Porsche With Purist Performance And Real Utility

There's so much right about the Porsche 928 GTS. A big old front-mounted V8, bulbously-sleek styling of a greasy pig that's aged well while remaining quintessentially 90's. The only way to improve it would be to turn it into a pickup truck, of course. Which some dude in Denmark has...

May 6, 2025