Offroad

Dennis G. Casebier, adventurer, steward, author, and historian, has passed away at the age of 87. Casebier is most famously known for his work to re-establish the famous 140-mile Mojave Road off-road trail in California, a path he hiked in its entirety twice before realizing the appeal it would have for off-roaders. Through Dennis, a View the full article

It’s not an uncommon practice for auto dealerships to add a premium to vehicles that are highly popular and in short supply. This happens most often to halo vehicles and introductory model years. We’ve become accustomed to seeing $5,000 added to the sticker price and even tolerate $10,000 or $20,000 at times (depending on the View the full article

Half-doors have officially come to the new Jeep Wrangler JL. The half-door option was recently added to the Jeep configurator, meaning the symbolic and useful half-door feature is finally a factory option for the newest Wrangler, the JL generation. Once upon a time—say, when the two-generations-ago TJ Wrangler was on sale in the 1990s and View the full article

On This Week’s Podcast: 2022 Nissan Frontier 2021 Ford Raptor The 2022 Nissan Frontier and 2021 Ford Raptor have been announced! Listen to this bonus episode as the guys discuss the new trucks and share the important info that you need to know. Will the Nissan have a manual? Will the Raptor have a V-8? View the full article

On This Week’s Podcast: Air Lift Performance’s Mike Alexander Listeners respond Holman can’t time it Mini trucker, former magazine guy, and founder of Flo Airride, Mike Alexander joins the guys to chat about his company’s recent acquisition by Air Lift Performance and his story of how he went from working at Circuit City to being View the full article

While we patiently await the unofficially official Ford Ranger Raptor, Ford’s still-excellent Ranger has been relegated to playing in the sandbox with Colorado Z71s and Tacoma TRD Off-Roads with the company’s FX4, while ZR2s and TRD Pros get to venture a little further down the trail. After announcing Tremor versions Super Duty and F-150, Ford View the full article

Colorado TRD Here is a pic of my 2010 Toyota Tacoma TRD Off Road with 4.0 V-6 and six-speed manual. From TRD I added a cold-air intake, performance exhaust, short-throw shifter, and skidplate. The 32-inch lightbar and LED fogs are from Cali Raised LED. Wheels are ’18 Tacoma, and tires are Falken Wildpeak AT3. A View the full article

The town of Oatman, Arizona, is an eclectic little stop along the old route of Highway 66 in Western Arizona, mostly a tourist stop nowadays. It’s named for Olive Oatman, a young girl who, at the age of 14 in 1851, was traveling west with her settler family to the promised land and was captured View the full article

We’re sold on the looks and stats of the new 2022 Nissan Frontier, a truck that’s been long overdue for a full-scale update. Meanwhile, we can’t deny that the 2021 Toyota Tacoma remains a solid truck that we’d never kick out of our stable. Both midsize offerings have similarly capable off-road-ready features available in the View the full article

It’s no secret that Ford’s F-150 Raptor’s power lies in its desert racing inspired suspension and not in its towing ability. That’s not to say that the Raptor isn’t a competent tow rig, rather that Ford has been required by the standards to which they test towing ability to rate the Raptor lower than its View the full article

Recently I was sauntering through a parking lot trying to remember where I parked my truck, and I passed a seemingly nondescript, late-model Silverado Crew Cab pickup. It appeared to be bone stock except for one thing. As I walked past it and glanced at the front end, I saw a winch mounted to the View the full article

How do you know if a car will be considered a classic or collectible in the future? Top Gear America tries to find out. View the full article

Send it! They went big on this jump—real big. So big, in fact, that a screenshot of a red 2021 Ford F-150 Raptor at the height of its skyward quest looks fake. Ridiculously photoshopped. It’s not, though. It’s for real. We grabbed some screen shots of the action, too, but you can see the video all View the full article

When Nissan first introduced the Pathfinder 35 years ago, it bore the persona and soul of a tough and rugged off-road adventurer. Since its introduction in 1986, Nissan has sold more than 1.8 million Pathfinders in the U.S. Although the Pathfinder has remained a popular choice among young and growing families, over the years it View the full article

King of the Hammers is often referred to as the Super Bowl of off-road racing events. And while we could wax poetic about the good old days of rock crawling before KOH and what KOH has become, we’ll acknowledge that this event has brought a ton of innovation and exposure to the off-road world. As View the full article

Those among us who were eagerly awaiting Ford’s answer to the 2021 Ram 1500 TRX and its bonkers 702-hp supercharged Hemi V-8 were no doubt disappointed to learn that the all-new third-generation 2021 Ford F-150 Raptor will hit showrooms this summer with just one engine option: the same high-output 3.5L V-6 Ford has slung between View the full article

Many of us have recently made the switch from working in an office setting to working from home. But why settle for a home office when you could potentially work from an anywhere office? Airstream has the answer. Meet the Airstream Flying Cloud 30FB Office, a go-almost-anywhere mobile office that promises to be just as View the full article

Ford rocked the pickup world in 2009 when it first introduced the go-fast desert-oriented F-150 Raptor. The truck’s big tires, big shocks, bulging body, and bad-boy attitude made the truck an instant hit. And it’s only gotten more popular and more capable from there. Now, for 2021 and in its third-generation, Ford has pulled back View the full article

On This Week’s Podcast: Graeme MacPherson from Go Fast Campers (GFC) 2021 Four Wheeler of the Year Lightning Feels the Heat Go Fast Campers (GFC) co-founder Graeme MacPherson returns to extol the virtues of the company’s new bar-raising V2 camper, platform tent, and topper, while sharing GFC’s entrepreneurial philosophy that has helped the company grow View the full article

First the news broke early on Groundhog Day that Moab EJS was cancelled. Then there was a ray of hope that a compromise might be found and it would actually happen. Now we know that Groundhog Day is more than a witty Bill Murray movie with the latest, most final update on whether or not View the full article