Forget Pebble, 'International Nationals' Is The Best Car Show In August

As returning readers will recognize, I'm pretty much obsessed with a little 4x4 called the . Mostly because they're just delightful looking, so I've spent all week pawing through these pictures from the biggest annual gathering of the trucks anywhere– generally known simply as "Nationals." Which is kind of funny...

Jul 11, 2025

Ford Everest SUVs Spied In Nebraska: More Evidence They'll Be Sold Here?

A pair of camouflaged s, the small-but-tough SUVs Ford sells in global markets, were spotted testing in Nebraska last week. Seeing these in Colorado can be explained away as "high elevation testing," does an appearance in America's Heartland make a stronger case for their potential entry to the US market?...

Jul 11, 2025

Can Modern Vehicles Pull Off The 'Derelict' Look?

Spotted this ancient Nissan (Datsun) pickup, beached in an AutoZone parking lot like a sea turtle about to lay eggs. The is weird, even little offensive to my conservative sensibilities. Yet I find it undeniably alluring. Derelicts have been around forever; the idea is you've got a functional (generally upgraded,...

Jul 11, 2025

Why The New Ram Trucks Boss Picked A Great & Awful Time To Get Promoted

Reid Bigland is moving from his position as the Head of Ram Truck Brand to take command of Alfa Romeo in the NAFTA region. Taking his place at Ram is Chrysler veteran Robert Hegbloom. When Ram was broken off the Dodge brand to start an empire of its own, basically...

Jul 11, 2025

Holley's 1967 Chevy C10 Truck Is Restomod Done Right

The good thing about Chevy's C10 pickups is that they are pretty and light. Add more power, a proper suspension and air-conditioning, and you got yourself a fast workhorse. Meet Holley Performance Products' own show truck. It's basically a Corvette under the C10 body. A fuel-injected LS3 small block with...

Jul 11, 2025

You Can Shoot This BMW X5 With An AK-47 And Drive It Away

The 2015 Security Plus, set to be revealed at the Moscow Auto Show later this month, is the next iteration of the company's armored SUV line. Sure looks like a standard X5, but all the body panels and windows have all been replaced with a variety BMW claims is "AK-47...

Jul 11, 2025

This Lifted Lincoln Limo Is Way Cooler Than Your Stretch Hummer

If you want a grossly gaudy ride to the prom that looks fresh off a rack at Toys R Us, get a Hummer H2 and slap 20 feet of fuselage between the wheels. Real rough n' tumble off-road party goers will pick this jacked-up Lincoln Town Car every time. Maybe...

Jul 11, 2025

Crash Testing For Trucks Is Way More Hardcore Than You Thought

We've seen plenty of front, side, and even rollover simulations performed on vehicles to suss out how they'd fare in a crash. But I can't remember ever seeing something get its ass kicked as hard as this Volvo dump truck that gets shoved off a pedestal and down a cliff....

Jul 11, 2025

Starting A Vehicle Restoration Project: A Fierce Whirlwind Of Emotions

isn't so much a place, as it is a state of mind. Actually, it sort of is a place. A place where you're damned to be wrenching and fighting rust until the end of eternity against a restoration project of impossible odds. Well, I've just swam across the River Styx....

Jul 11, 2025

Land Rover Defender Racing Is What I Want To Do All Day Every Day

Remember the set up by Bowler, makers of the most insane off-roaders of the all? Well, it's a muddy blast. We should all move to Wales. Can you imagine a rally stage where a diesel Defender 90 with 170 horsepower is faster than an ex-WRC Subaru Impreza rally car? Welcome...

Jul 11, 2025

A Brief History Of How The Aftermarket Invented GM's 4WD Trucks

Just after World War II, Willys Jeeps and Dodge Power Wagons were first to sell 4WD trucks to consumers. GM, Ford, and even Studebaker saw the demand for trucks with a transfer case, but before they could offer their own 4WD systems cost-effectively they outsourced it to the aftermarket. The...

Jul 11, 2025

2015 Chevy Silverado Gets Big Wheels & Racing Stripes As Factory Options

2015 Chevrolet Silverado crew and double-cab trucks are getting "Rally Edition" options, which give the truck a body-colored grille, black bowtie badge, black trim and some sweet racing stripes. You're not getting any extra power, but you're definitely going to feel faster looking down a hood with two big ol'...

Jul 11, 2025

This Is The 'Olympics' Of Truck Driving

In the dark of the moon on the 6th of June, a whiskey-fueled argument between truckers was escalating. Rubber Duck reckoned he ran his rig better than Big Ben, Ben smashed a bottle over The Duck's head... They both got tossed out the front window but the question remained; how...

Jul 11, 2025

This Gruff Old Army Truck Has The Perfect License Plate

The K5 Chevy Blazer was a sweetheart of the US Army in the 1980's, but since then pretty much all of them have been sold as surplus to find their way into the hands of regular folks. Regular folks who love America, and are cool with being mistaken for the...

Jul 11, 2025

Report: New Land Rover Defender Design Is Done, Looks Nothing Like DC100

Land Rover has been threatening to mess with the design of the timeless (archaic) Defender for years, and now rumor has it they've settled on a new look that we'll see in 2015. But apparently it won't look anything like the Power Wheels/FJ Cruiser lovechild "DC100" concept we saw in...

Jul 11, 2025