2015 Jeep Renegade Will Work For Bruce Wayne In New Batman Movie

Detroit-based PR guy spotted this "trail rated" rocking what looks like Wayne Industries security livery on the set of the upcoming movie. Guess we can look forward to seeing a few of these (probably) get obliterated by pyrotechnics in dramatic slow-motion. Looks like a Trailhawk trim, based on the red...

Jul 10, 2025

Honda Ridgeline Still Outselling Nissan Titan, Ford Grows Lead Over GM

Last month Americans bought 8,425 more pickup trucks than they did in June. Ford F-Series, which eeked out a sales victory over GM's pickups in June, more than doubled its lead despite Sierra getting a substantial sales bump. The Nissan Titan still wallows in last place, 268 sales behind the...

Jul 10, 2025

Honda Will Start Making Even More Stuff That Isn't Cars

Honda is investing $8.5 million to its Power Equipment factory in Swepsonville, North Carolina with the goal of "innovating production processes and adding new products" like snow blowers and generators. Honda develops and builds things like engines, generators, lawn mowers, pumps, snow blowers, tillers and trimmers at the 345,000 square-foot...

Jul 10, 2025

How The 2015 Ford F-150 Saves Another 60 Pounds, Aluminum Aside

Aluminum's not the only thing putting the on a diet. The company says a greater proportion of "high-strength" steel in the frame, increasing from 22% to 77%, will let them drop 60 pounds out of the frame while improving rigidity. Metalsa, which makes frames for many passenger and commercial vehicles,...

Jul 10, 2025

Dodge Will Make Your Base Model Look Like The Sporty Model For $1,590

The is one of my favorite SUVs. Just enough noise to scare the neighbor's chihuahua, practical enough to spare you from public shaming when you roll up to a gas station or your grandmother's house. Now you can get the $29,000 base model to look like the $39,000 sporty one...

Jul 10, 2025

Watch The Jeep Renegade In The New Batman Slide During Its Chase Scene

We spotted this decked out in on the set of the upcoming Batman Vs. Superman movie just hours ago. Now we're sure it's going to get at least a little action time; watch it rip around Detroit just inches off the nose of this Mercedes ML camera rig! Instagram user...

Jul 10, 2025

Holden Is Making The Fastest 'El Camino' Ever Before It Gets Shut Down

GM's Australian automaker Holden, famous for beastly , is shutting its doors in 2017. But before the company goes out of business, they're reportedly cranking out their fastest-ever utility car. In Aussie vernacular, a "ute" is anything with a pickup bed; car or truck. Here in the US, if anyone...

Jul 10, 2025

This Jurassic Park Explorer Is A Race Car

The 24 Hours of LeMons is part motorsports, part theater. Nobody does the theater part better than Speedycop. You know, the guy who made . Well, here's a perfect Jurassic Park Explorer recreation from him. And it's going racing this weekend. This is the first Explorer ever in LeMons, but...

Jul 10, 2025

Interesting Infographic Breaks 2015 Ford F-150 Down To The Atomic Level

You've probably heard by now that weight savings was a priority in the the . But if there's any confusion left over what exactly the truck is made of, this neat chart should sort it out for you. Here's another interesting illustration of the 2015 Ford F-150's body construction, highlighting...

Jul 10, 2025

These Truckers Have No Sympathy For Car Crashing After Cutting Them Off

Somebody overzealously merged onto a highway in Australia, causing their car to spin out and into solid barrier while cutting off a semi-truck. The crash looks pretty gnarly, but the blokes in the big rigs seem to figure he got what he deserved. We hear from the truck filming: "He...

Jul 10, 2025

The Range Rover Sport SVR Is The Fastest Land Rover Ever

There's a certain subset of people that find the Mercedes-Benz ML63 AMG, the Porsche Cayenne Turbo, and the old BMW X5M and goes, "no, those are German. I want something tasting more of... the Queen." Enter the new Range Rover Sport SVR, with 550 horsepower. And here's some more numbers...

Jul 10, 2025

Watch A 6x6 G-Wagen Bully Its Way Around A Racetrack Full Of Supercars

A Mercedes crashed "SupercarSunday" at the Zandvoort race circuit this weekend. It didn't tip over, but I bet the cockpit felt like a Navy foul-sea simulator going around those corners. It looks sketchy running full-tilt in the straights! The G 63 does look lovely (and appropriately elephant-like) in that muddy...

Jul 10, 2025

The Squarest Volvo Ever Is Also Totally Badass: Off-Roading The C303

Before Volvo melted into just another European sedan brand, they were known for two things; "squareness" and "safety." What you might not know is that they also made army trucks, like the 1975 C303 we just had around the off-road course at Monticello Motor Club. And as we found, out...

Jul 10, 2025

After Forty Years Of Farm Life This '69 Scout Gets A Rolling Restoration

Pearson Hurst's '69 Scout will be our first "reader's ride" featured in the (semi-regular) column because, as regular readers will know, I reckon they're pretty much the coolest things on four wheels. This 800A is particularly lovely, and true to its nature was raised on farms. In response to our...

Jul 10, 2025

Nissan Xterra + Juke Nismo Mashup Looks Like A Street-Legal Lunar Rover

Nissan has been posting wacky photo'chops of their vehicles "" to get people to share them, and while I recognize I'm playing right into their plan I must admit the 2014 Nissan Xterra with a Juke Nismo front clip looks a little bit awesome. I mean, the rough angles of...

Jul 10, 2025