Every Gearhead Should Follow The Mint 400 This Weekend, Here's How

The 2015 motorsport circus has raged in and around Las Vegas, Nevada all week. The actual race goes down tomorrow, and the afterparty will take festivities all the way through Sunday. Put these channels in your feed and you'll see why so many people go nuts over desert racing. In...

Jul 16, 2025

Retooled Kansas City Plant Will Start Building Way More 2015 Ford F-150s

Today the first work-whistle sounded on the redesigned Kansas City Assembly Plant's truck division. 900 new human and 500 new robot employees will be cranking out even more 2015 Ford F-150s, but their priority isn't another super-lux Platinum rig. No; the F-150 variant warranting its own assembly line is the...

Jul 16, 2025

This Soviet 6x6 ATV Is The Perfect Airport Shuttle For NASA Astronauts

As long as the airport in question is a frozen field somewhere in Kazakhstan and your plane happens to be the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft. Expedition 42 commander Barry Wilmore of NASA landed with Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) near the town of Zhezkazgan...

Jul 16, 2025

Why The Pan-American Highway Is Not The Adventure You Think It Is

You can have a great adventure on any road. But if you're planning an epic trip specifically to challenge man and machine, the — 30,000 miles of road from Alaska to Argentina — isn't the way to go. Beyond a particularly impressive total length the fabled PAH really is nothing...

Jul 16, 2025

BMW's First 'Mainstream' Plug-In Will Be This 71 MPG X5 Hybrid

BMW knows you progressive gentry love hybrids, but their ‘i-car” sub-brand is a little too wacky ( ) and flashy () for many. So they’re porting their hybrid tech to the ever-popular ; which gets 313 horsepower and supposedly as much as 71 MPG as the 2016 BMW X5...

Jul 16, 2025

This Mint 400 Gallery Is Like An Acid Trip Through Off-Road Heaven

The off-road race you saw in Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas is a real thing, and it just rocked the sun-scorched desert of Nevada last weekend. Feast your eyes on this glorious photo gallery of the and you'll see why we're always calling it one of the best motorsport...

Jul 16, 2025

Is A 1961 Willys Wagon The Ultimate Campmobile?

Is buying a Willys Wagon that's been sitting in a garage since 1978 ? As long as you live close to a desert, I say hell yeah! On this episode of Dirt Every Day, Fred goes down the barn find route ending up with a 1961 Willy's with a dead...

Jul 16, 2025

Why So Many People Are Leasing Pickup Trucks Right Now

It's not your imagination; average pickup truck prices have risen aggressively in the past few years. Trucks are moving upmarket, buyers want to trade-up sooner, and they're focusing on "payments" over "price" so they can "afford" these heavy-duty luxury vehicles every three years. reports that the average pickup truck sale...

Jul 16, 2025

The First Range Rover Autobiography Will Always Be The Finest

Today any nouveau riche nincompoop with $137,995 can buy a Range Rover Autobiography. But 21 years ago, when an in-car fax machine was next-level baller status and nobody would dare use the word "bespoke" near a Brooklyn thrift shop, the badge meant something. Behold the 1994 Range Rover Autobiography; one...

Jul 16, 2025

Did Every Lowered Truck In Texas Get Wrecked In This Massive Pile-Up?

If you're a fan of trucks with big wheels and no ground clearance, avert your eyes because this parade of pickups got turned into a conga-line of destruction that just keeps going and going and... seriously, it's unbelievably long. Haven't heard back from the Texas Department of Public Safety on...

Jul 16, 2025

Holy Crap: Tiny Buggy Hip-Checks A Trophy Truck Into Oblivion Mid-Race

How freaking fierce is this crash!? A Class 1 buggy came off a big bump right next to the Vest Racing trophy truck, slamming it with just the right force and angle to send it careening into next week. Photog Eric Minks was perfectly positioned to shoot a whole roll...

Jul 16, 2025

Why The 2015 Jeep Wrangler Is The Cheapest Car In America To Insure

In a survey that quoted 1,500 new vehicles with six major insurance companies in every state, the 2015 Sport was found to be the cheapest to insure. Its average annual premium was less than a third of the most expensive insurance case; the 2015 Nismo. "Insurance rates are all about...

Jul 16, 2025

This Rare Compact Airstream Looks Boss With A Matching Ford Raptor

You don't need an off-road trailer to get to some incredible camping spots. Check out how good this Airstream Basecamp looks with a color-matched Ford Raptor posting up on the Oregon Coast! These images were posted to a long time ago, and the photographer finally found my request to share...

Jul 16, 2025

The Real Reason 2015 Ford F-150 Insurance Prices Haven't Skyrocketed

Since the came out, people have been asking if its unprecedented aluminum construction translates to higher and costs. Well, thanks to the way insurance premiums are calculated the definitive answer is "no." At least, for now. After looking through TrueCar's study on , I got to comparing quotes on different...

Jul 16, 2025

'Biggest' 2015 Jeep Renegade 2.4 4WD Rated At 24 MPG Combined

The EPA has certified the 4WD with the larger 2.4 Tigershark engine at 24 combined MPG, 21 in city conditions, and as high as 29 on the highway. The 2WD variant can top 31 MPG. Here's the quick breakdown of the new Renegade's ratings with its bigger engine option: CityCombinedHighway2WD2225312WD...

Jul 16, 2025