Offroad

Maybe everybody is just gun-shy or simply going off half-cocked, but last night the “news” broke late in the evening of February 1, 2021 that Moab Easter Jeep Safari had been cancelled for a second year in a row. We’re here to tell you that information is false. Fake news, folks. Official word from the View the full article

On This Week’s Podcast: Heatshield Products’ Steve Heye Jordan Mulbauer from Daytona Truck Meet Truck IQ: What Does Holman Really Know? Go behind the scenes of Heatshield Products with Steve Heye to learn about thermal management products, the proper way to absorb sound, and why hot-rodding a smoker with Heatshield Products is a good idea. View the full article

Fact: For most of us, camping and wheeling go together. It’s a safe bet that where there’s folks gathered to wheel for more than a day there’s probably camping involved. I’ve Had Dysfunctional Camps I’ve camped since I was a kid. Our family started with a tent, graduated to a 1960s-era Apache camper (which was View the full article

The Nissan Hardbody is one of the most iconic, legit mini trucks of the ’80s and ’90s. Everyone either had a Hardbody or knew somebody who had one—and has a story or two to share about that Hardbody. It fits nicely into that clan of indestructible mini trucks—alongside the Toyota pickup, Isuzu P’up, Chevy S-10, View the full article

GMC will bid farewell to its all-electric 2022 GMC Hummer EV Edition 1 VIN 001 during Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale Auction at WestWorld of Scottsdale, Arizona, which takes place from March 20–27, 2021. VIN 001 means that this sale is for the first retail production Hummer EV pickup that’ll come off the production line at Plant Zero, View the full article

Deep in the South African bush, in and around Kruger National Park, there exists an elite, specially trained team of rangers tasked with protecting wildlife from poachers. They’re not your standard, Ranger Smith-type characters, though. These rock stars of the conservation world are more akin to warriors, as they are regularly forced into combat situations View the full article

Unimogs are unique 4x4s that can be found around the world serving duty as part of many jobs. They generally stand out from the crowd because of their portal axles and coil suspension with torque tubes which combine to make them incredibly capable off-road. We first talked about the Unimog in “What Is a Mercedes View the full article

Don’t worry, things have not gone completely off the rails at the MotorTrend offices, despite last year’s best efforts. As fun as it would be to watch, supercars are not built for overlanding (but maybe they are nowadays?), and even the Top Gear America hosts wouldn’t subject those rolling pinnacles of art and engineering to View the full article

Dodge W350 in Process Attached are some before and after photos of my 1984 Dodge W350 crew cab truck I purchased some years ago. It was to be a joint restoration project between my wife and myself. Unfortunately, she passed away in 2015. The truck has all of 60,000 original miles since new, and I bought View the full article

This is one of those articles that seems like it should be started with the statement, “Books could be written about what a Mercedes Unimog is.” That’s the truth, and we are sure that books have and will been written. Still, we will try to distill what a Mercedes Unimog is into a few paragraphs, View the full article

We’re somewhere east of Flagstaff, Arizona, in the Coconino National Forest. A bustling film crew crunches back and forth over shifty piles of ancient lava rock. There’s no one around for miles; cellphone service is nonexistent. One car has stubbornly conked out halfway up a steep hill. We’re losing light, and fast. In any other View the full article

The Toyota Land Cruiser nameplate is officially dead in the U.S., while older Land Cruisers are prone to have their own setbacks. What to do? On the one hand, there are some hardcore guys ‘n gals out there that like the “full experience” that an untouched vintage 4×4 vehicle has to offer. Kudos to this View the full article

The 2020 Toyota Sequoia TRD Pro was the oldest in this year’s test. While the other three vehicles were all-new, the Sequoia has been around in largely this same configuration since the 2008 model year. Making the Sequoia eligible for the 2021 Four Wheeler SUV of the Year test is the addition of the desert-oriented View the full article

Top Gear America host Dax Shepard’s car love is no secret. He was on Conan talking about his 700-horsepower Buick Roadmaster station wagon, and he’s appeared in MotorTrend previously showing off his garage. There’s much more to Shepard’s car obsession than what he owns, though. “I’m in to all cars,” Shepard told us. “I can’t think View the full article

After a decades-long hiatus, Land Rover has finally returned the Defender nameplate to the U.S. market with the all-new 2020 Land Rover Defender 110. Because of the vehicle’s late introduction, although it qualified for our 2020 Four Wheeler of the Year test, no testers were available at test time. Because of this, the 2020 model View the full article

Four Wheeler, the world’s leading 4×4 authority since 1962, has selected the GMC Yukon AT4 as the winner of its 48th annual SUV of the Year award. Four Wheeler’s SUV of the Year award event is an invitation-only competition that is only open to all-new or significantly revised SUVs for the upcoming model year. For View the full article

It’s not every day that a 4×4 we published a story on over four decades ago reappears, and it’s even more rare that it reappears looking absolutely fantastic. But that’s what happened recently when Rough Country emailed us with a major surprise. The company told us that a 1977 International Scout II we published a View the full article

Ram wasted no time pushing its quickest, fastest, and most powerful off-road muscle pickup truck though its production line. The first 702-hp tire-demolishing 2021 Ram 1500 TRX Launch Edition truck exited the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in December 2020. We know that all 702 (celebrating the truck’s insane horsepower figure) Anvil Gray Ram 1500 TRX View the full article

As far as buying from the dealership is concerned, the JK Wrangler was the first four-door Wrangler available for sale in the 2007 model year. However, that hasn’t stopped folks from crafting their own Jeeps with more doors than were available from the factory. Enter Mark Tetreau. Gallery of Early 4-Door Jeeps! The First Four-Door View the full article

Top Gear America host Rob Corddry may be best known for his comedy and acting, but his car enthusiasm runs far beyond driving the latest exotics on the HBO hit show Ballers. “In my experiences with cars at a young age,” Corddry said, “I made a choice to not get all bogged down in the View the full article