This Company Wants To Give You $5,000 For Driving Off-Road

Jeep parts manufacturer Omix-ADA is writing grants for organizations that "helping to advance the off-road hobby" through its Rugged Ridge Trail Access Program. Get your shit together and come up with idea for making America a better place to off-road, and they'll give you five grand to get it done!...

Jul 14, 2025

Ford Ranger Just Beat Toyota Hilux As Africa's Favorite 4x4

The mighty , venerated as the ultimate unkillable work truck the world over, has been passed as the best selling 4x4 in South Africa for the first time in 34 years. The , about to be redesigned to match the new , has taken the region's top spot. Ranger beat...

Jul 14, 2025

This Badass DeLorean Monster Truck Doesn't Need Roads Either

I've always had a sneaking suspicion that my life was incomplete, but I was never sure why until tonight. It's because I don't own a badass lifted DeLorean monster truck like Rich Weissensel does. Rich is a software engineer from Chicago who has five custom examples of John Z.'s ill-fated...

Jul 14, 2025

2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE 450 AMG Coupe: This Is It

The 2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE 450 AMG Coupe is an SUV that feels like a sports car. A cruiser that can pounce. Basically it's the most versatile accessory since the black t-shirt, according to the folks who built it. All we know so far is it looks like an X6 and...

Jul 14, 2025

Mini To Extend Desert Racing Program Because All They Do Is Win

An upscale urban compact-car and extreme off-road racing might seem like a contrived paring, but Mini and have won the brutal for the , and have just committed to competing through 2017. Whether or not winning the brand's excellent record at the rally translates to selling more compact cars seems...

Jul 14, 2025

Plan To Pick Up SUV With A Crane Goes From Bad To Catastrophic Failure

Crane-style tow trucks are pretty common in places where space is limited. Even though this particular one seems to have plenty of room to operate; whoever hooked up this Volkswagen Touareg did just about everything wrong. At least(?) the SUV looks like it's already been wrecked before the flatbed operator...

Jul 14, 2025

Brand New 2016 Toyota Tacoma Looks A Lot Like The Tundra From Here

The 2016 Toyota Tacoma has been promised as an "all-new" mid-sized truck to finally replace the current rendition we've lived with for almost a decade. From the one photo the company has released so far, the new Taco sure looks like its big stablemate the Tundra to me. The redesigned...

Jul 14, 2025

I Have A 2015 Lincoln MKC For The Next Week

Yeah. Life isn't just Cadillac CTS-V Wagons all the time, kids. But believe it or not, I like the more than I expected to. Maybe I should have given it more credit. Lincoln's new small crossover has garnered mostly positive reviews so far. Over the next week, I'll try to...

Jul 14, 2025

Ford Will Make $10.8 Billion Just Selling $50,000+ Trucks This Year

Here's some data to support the rhetoric we all keep repeating: "Holy crap, pickup trucks are insanely expensive." has calculated which were the most popular $50K+ vehicles and versions of the Ford F-Series, Ram, Chevy Silverado, and GMC Sierra are all in the top ten. TrueCar is predicting sales over...

Jul 14, 2025

​2015 Nissan Juke Is A Rave That Makes Chevy Trax Feel Like Church Bingo

We spent Tuesday with the and ruled it was a fine-if-overly-innocuous tool of conveyance. Then twenty minutes with the proved that, holy crap, a crossover actually can make you feel like an of Kermit The Frog. Nissan announced an upcoming face-and-asslift for the Juke, and I'm not going to lie,...

Jul 14, 2025

Land Rover Is Using Augmented Reality To Sell Cars That Aren't There

Thehasn't hit dealerships yet, but customers will be able to sit inside the SUV, look around, and even fold the seats down thanks to an augmented reality program run from an iPhone. The key to the setup is an Durovis Dive headset, which you plop an iPhone into while running...

Jul 14, 2025

GM May Make The Off-Road 2016 Chevy Colorado ZR2 [Update: Rumor Denied]

GM trotted out this lifted, armored, diesel-powered at last month's LA Auto Show and proved the company had the off-road market on their radar. Rumors suggested Chevy might actually the ZR2 happen in as little as three to six months, at least in Canada. Like any show-car 4x4, the ZR2...

Jul 14, 2025

2016 Audi Q7: It's A Damn Station Wagon

A giant one, but a station wagon nevertheless. What a bold move! The 2016 Audi Q7 is also 716.5 pounds lighter than its predecessor and will be available as a diesel plug-in hybrid with quattro all-wheel drive as well. Just look at that! Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg, my favorite guy...

Jul 14, 2025

SUVs Will Come Full Circle And Be Wagons Again Soon

At every prodigal SUV and crossover launch this year I was told about the same things: "sportiness," and "car-like qualities." Now that we've seen the , I'm almost convinced automakers are going to make SUVs sleeker and sleeker until they just turn into wagons again. There was a time when...

Jul 14, 2025

This Truck Will Attempt To Break The Monster Truck Speed Record At COTA (UPDATE)

This is the Raminator. It excels at crushing cars and being generally awesome. But can it go faster than 96.8 mph? That's the current Guinness world record for top monster truck speed, and today at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, the Raminator will try to break it. I'm out...

Jul 14, 2025