Trucks

If you’ve ever wondered where Toyota tests their vehicles here in the States, it’s at the automaker’s proving grounds in the Sonoran desert outside of Phoenix, Arizona. The 12,000-acre facility, known as TAPG, offers a variety of terrain for testing and tuning the durability, dynamics, and capability of their vehicles.

Anyone who’s had to purchase a new vehicle this year knows that not only are pickings slim, but dealers across the country are adding hundreds or thousands of dollars over the MSRP. While adding so-called market adjustments is common in the automotive industry, typically, it’s on vehicles like limited-edition sports cars.

General Motors reuses the same platforms between its brands, such as the Tahoe/Yukon/Escalade SUVs. While both GMC and Chevrolet currently build pickups on the platform, Cadillac does not. To rectify this problem, a shop from Miami called Dom’s Garage has taken the front from a late model Escalade and grafted it onto a Chevrolet pickup.

No matter where you looked in the 1980s, there were F-150 pickups with two-tone paint jobs running all over the place. Two different people in my family owned Ford trucks of the vintage, and one of them was red and white two-tone, with the other being a strange red and maroon combo.

EV startup Rivian is readying its first production electric trucks, and they look quite impressive. Its R1T and R1S trucks will be available in a four-motor configuration, which has the potential to provide better traction control and off-road ability than traditional four-wheel drive systems.

If there’s one thing that Ken Block is known for, it’s his ability to drift through corners like few other drivers on the planet. For his Climbkhana Two video, Block got behind the wheel of his 914 horsepower F-150 Hoonitruck and drifted it through one of the world’s most dangerous roads.

If you like to off-road after dark, you need a good LED light bar. There are plenty of aftermarket options out there, and a couple of truck makers even offer them as a factory option. But I can say with a high degree of certainty that none of them are as bright as the one that rctestflight installed on a truck.

If I had the time to take a few months off of life and get away from it all, I’d want to do it in a rugged and versatile vehicle capable of providing comfortable shelter, while being able to handle any terrain or climate.

In preparation for this year’s Overland Expo WEST, Nissan is showing off an exceptionally well kitted-out custom of its already hefty Armada full-size SUV, which we recently reviewed. This very special vehicle was designed based on the wishes of Nissan Trucks‘ social media followers, who provided input on what the design should include, and how it should be wrapped.

Growing up, my grandfather always had a penchant for the El Camino. I always thought mixing a car and a truck together was weird, save for the Subaru Brat because of the fun reverse-facing truck bed seats.

Volvo makes some cool cars and big rigs for work and it races both types of vehicles. Big rig racing is something that most of us never see, but it happens, and Volvo’s latest weapon is called the Iron Knight.

One of the more impressive vehicles to turn up at the recent SEMA show in Las Vegas was this rugged off-road pickup truck which started out life as a Cummins diesel-powered Nissan Titan XD, but gained some serious camping chops thanks to Hellwig Products.

Sometimes car dealerships can be really frustrating places, but sometimes they do some really cool things. One of those really cool things is something Lexington, KY dealer Paul Miller Autogroup did to celebrate our nation’s birthday this year.