Trucks : Car News And Reviews

I believe am a very good driver. I have spent years driving cars on the racetrack and teaching others to do so. Despite all my track day prowess, I can’t back my way out of a paper bag with a trailer behind a truck.

I have been on the track with driving students and behind the wheel on more than a few occasions when the car has spun out. It’s not so bad when I am behind the wheel, because I know what I am going to do.

/Big Muscle gives us a fun history lesson about one of Cadillac’s most unusual experiments. Between 1975 and 1976 the company commissioned 204 Coupe DeVilles to be turned into pickup trucks, not unlike Chevy’s El Camino.

Freightliner is working hard to build future big rigs to save fuel and reduce accidents. Among its accomplishments, the company unveiled the SuperTruck not too long ago that is able to get 12.2mpg with a full load.

Ford has previously offered a version of the popular F-150 that could be powered by compressed natural gas or propane. The catch was that the truck was only offered with a V6 at the time. Ford has now announced that with the 2016 F-150, it will offer a package from the factory that prepares the 5.0L V8 engine to run on either CNG or propane.

The latest member of Kahn Design’s Flying Huntsman Land Rover Defender line is certainly an odd one. As is the series’ trademark, the 105 Pick Up has a 15″ longer wheelbase and 16″ longer bonnet than a stock Defender, but the snout is even more pronounced here because it’s visibly larger than the truck bed.

I’m not normally a fan of car/truck or truck/SUV mashups. I was never an El Camino fan and I don’t really like the Chevy Avalanche. Brabus has taken a Range Rover and turned it into something awesome, and I really like it.

We all see big rigs cruising the streets just about every time we get onto a highway. You may have never thought about how much fuel these big trucks consume when they are fully loaded, but the Department of Energy and owners of the trucks sure have.

For many years, there were a bunch of smaller pickup trucks in the US market. If you wanted a cheap truck, that is exactly what you bought. As the years went by those smaller trucks suddenly became as expensive as a full-size truck leading many people to just buy the big truck, and sales declined for mid-size trucks.

Food trucks are wonderful little restaurants crammed haphazardly into old vans. Sometimes, if they’re either part of very successful food truck empires or started by well established chefs, they’re even haphazardly crammed into new vans. You know what would be even cooler?

As part of his New Zealand series, The Smoking Tire’s Matt Farah found what he says is “probably the world’s fastest two-bedroom home.” It’s a lovely house built on the bed of a 1985 Hino truck.

Big Rigs drive the highways around our nation and the world each day carrying all sorts of cargo. These massive trucks can survive head on collisions that crumple other vehicles into balls of useless metal. These trucks are so big and heavy I bet you have never thought of anyone jumping one of them into the air on purpose.

I’ll start out by saying this: The 2015 Ford F-150 King Ranch is the best pickup truck I’ve ever driven. It’s loaded with luxuries and comforts not typically associated with pickups, and doesn’t sacrifice utility in the least.

Many of the concept cars that we see at auto shows around the world will never come to market. The few that do come to market are usually watered down versions of the concept car awesome we loved.

Mercedes-Benz and AMG only made a handful of its over-the-top G63 6X6 off-roaders before ending production, and presumably most of them went to sheiks, oil magnates and other insanely wealthy show-offs. And while Mercedes is now working on a 4×4 version of the 6×6 that’s based on a 4×4, you can actually own one of the proper 6x6s if you’ve got the cash.