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June 6, 2015

A Monster Truck for the Upper Crust

A Monster Truck for the Upper Crust
If a monster truck just ain’t monstrous for enough for you, then I have an incredible monstrosity you may want to consider. But it’s going to cost you.…
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June 1, 2015

Ford F-150 Frame Shortage Slows Production

Ford F-150 Frame Shortage Slows Production
There may have been a question in some people’s minds as to how the all-new aluminum bodied F-150 would be received by buyers when it was first announced.…
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May 28, 2015

Insane Driver Uses Flimsy Boards to Load Truck onto Ship

Insane Driver Uses Flimsy Boards to Load Truck onto Ship
I once bought a turbocharged spec Miata racecar, and when I showed up with my trailer to pick it up, I quickly found that the car was much too low to actually make it up my trailer ramps.…
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May 27, 2015

Ken Block Tears up Utah in his RaptorTRAX

Ken Block Tears up Utah in his RaptorTRAX
Back in January, Ken Block gave us the a look at his ultimate snow vehicle in the form of a Ford Raptor truck with tank treads instead of wheels at each corner.…
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May 27, 2015

Shelby Baja 700 Ford F-150 Raptor

Shelby Baja 700 Ford F-150 Raptor
As if you couldn’t already get your 2x4s home faster than everyone else, Shelby American took the current-gen (2011-2014) Raptor and bumped up its F-150 SVT’s power like Vladimir Putin rides horses, with utter abandon.…
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May 22, 2015

2016 Ford F-150 Gets Pro Trailer Backup System

2016 Ford F-150 Gets Pro Trailer Backup System
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.…
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May 16, 2015

Stadium Truck Indestructible, Driver’s Underwear Not So Much

Stadium Truck Indestructible, Driver’s Underwear Not So Much
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.…
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May 10, 2015

Driving Cadillac’s Pickup: The Mirage

Driving Cadillac’s Pickup: The Mirage
/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.…
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May 6, 2015

Freightliner Autonomous Trucks Land Utah License

Freightliner Autonomous Trucks Land Utah License
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.…
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May 5, 2015

2016 Ford F-150 to Offer CNG/Propane V8 Option

2016 Ford F-150 to Offer CNG/Propane V8 Option
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.…
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May 3, 2015

Kahn Design Flying Huntsman 105 Pickup

Kahn Design Flying Huntsman 105 Pickup
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.…
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April 16, 2015

Brabus Startech: The Range Rover Avalanche

Brabus Startech: The Range Rover Avalanche
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.…
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April 8, 2015

Freightliner SuperTruck Gets 12.2 mpg with a Full Load

Freightliner SuperTruck Gets 12.2 mpg with a Full Load
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.…
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April 7, 2015

RAM Won’t Make Mid-Size Pickup

RAM Won’t Make Mid-Size Pickup
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.…
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April 7, 2015

Peugeot Design Lab Made a Dedicated Food Truck

Peugeot Design Lab Made a Dedicated Food Truck
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.…
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