Offroad

Ford announced today that the all-new 2021 will carry with it the claims of best-in-class towing, payload, and torque. Maximum towing has increased by 800 pounds over the outgoing model to a staggering 14,000 pounds. Maximum payload has increased by 55 pounds to 3,325, which is more than 1,000 pounds greater than Ford’s closest competitor. View the full article

Surprise! Getting things done ahead of schedule is something that 2020 just didn’t have in store for us. UPS, the United Parcel Service, screwed up the delivery of one crucial part (more on that debacle of national proportions later), but we had to get the 2020 Ultimate Adventure Long Range Jeep driving and headed to View the full article

Mobile Saferoom If the last few items on your Sprinter van’s build sheet happen to be electric shock door handles, ballistic armor, and smokescreen capabilities—you’re in luck! AddArmor is known for taking luxury vehicles and outfitting them so that dignitaries and enthusiasts alike can withstand and escape doomsday scenarios. The company’s fortified van can be View the full article

It’s no secret that one of our favorite vehicles of all time is the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT. And that love turned straight to lust in 2018 when Jeep dropped the insane 707-hp Trackhawk version of its five-passenger family hauler on us. Stuffed with the same supercharged 6.2L V-8 engine as the Dodge Charger and View the full article

We can’t deny that we like both grills and grilles. Grills make delicious cooked foods that we slather down with glee at every opportunity—especially smoked meats and foods prepped with plenty of caramelized onions and spicy peppers. Also, grilles, those items that adorn the front of various (mostly vintage) 4x4s, are something we love. They View the full article

We tested the Mickey Thompson Baja Pro XS over 7,000 miles in mud, rocks, more mud, roots, mud, rocks, gravel, and more muddy rocks—and here’s what we thought of the company’s newest off-road rubber. This tire grabs hard—punishing the mud, putting rocks in a rubbery chokehold, and demanding attention from the trailhead to the beachfront. View the full article

Transfer cases are magical boxes that give us several things that we need and love. For one, they split power to the front and rear axles. As you know, that is a must-have for any and all 4x4s. Also, some transfer cases, those that we especially like, allow for additional low range gear options—often 1:1 View the full article

For most diesel pickup trucks, horsepower and torque are the engine attributes that enthusiasts have the most interest in. Of course, “capability” is a major concern, but the overall amount of steam and grunt an oil-burner produces is usually the hot topic in diesel discussions. Although performance is important, fuel economy is another criteria that View the full article

The one complaint we always hear about the Jeep Wrangler is the lack of power. In fact, power was such a concern for owners that a cottage industry of aftermarket companies popped up to swap diesels and V-8s into Wranglers. Even Jeep has seemingly acknowledged the issue by going from one engine choice in the View the full article

Up to now UA2020 had delivered on the scenery, spectacular side trips of historic, natural, or mechanical interest, beautiful campsites, and enjoyable trails. But this is Ultimate Adventure, not Moderate Adventure, so for Day 7 we really ratcheted up the terrain. We first took the group through the peaceful and gorgeous Iron Mountain Loop, a View the full article

Denali Electronics has expanded its range of products to include LED lights for Jeeps and 4x4s, and our 2005 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited was in dire need of the company’s help. Although our stock halogen headlights and foglights were still functional, when traveling off-road, the incandescent bulbs just didn’t deliver the lumen output we needed to View the full article

By now we’re all pretty familiar with Jeep’s newest entry into the midsize pickup space. We’ve driven, tested, and reviewed nearly all of the different varieties of 2020 Gladiator, including the Sport S with the max tow package, the rock crushing Rubicon, and the desert dominating Mojave. What we hadn’t done, however, was get behind View the full article

As vehicle evaluations go, percentages are often used for qualifying a truck’s makeup, capability, etc. A rig’s makeup might have 50 percent of one thing and an equal amount of another, or the ratio can be 70/30, 60/40, and so on. It really doesn’t matter what the ratios are because the math always calculates to View the full article

It was a chilly morning driver’s meeting in Cody, Wyoming, but Day 6 was a road day and we had over 400 miles to cover, so we got the show on the road both figuratively and literally. Travelling that distance in a car on the interstate in a single day isn’t a big deal, but View the full article

The art of overlanding can be as simple or complex as you make it. In episode 105 of Dirt Every Day, Fred Williams and Dave Chappelle go overlanding in Utah in an unconventional overlander—a Kaiser Jeep M715. After tagging along on their adventure, we see that what you need to go overlanding broadly fits into View the full article

To say it’s been an interesting year thus far would be an understatement. Our whole world has been upended, to the point where even how we review vehicles has needed to change. Instead of the typical multi-day program in an exotic land to introduce a new vehicle, GMC offered to drop off an all-new 2021 View the full article

We had a lot packed for Day 5 of UA2020, so we roused the group early for a 7:30 driver’s meeting and had everybody rolling shortly thereafter. Our campsite on North Meadow Rd, which took us up to McKelvey Lake on Day 4, was just adjacent to South Meadow Rd, which leads to a pretty View the full article

Jason Naparalla joined us on the 2019 Four Wheeler Overland Adventure with his overland truck build: a 2010 Ford SVT Raptor and Conqueror UEV-390 off-road trailer. His usual exploits involve driving far into the bush over dilapidated roads and trails to reach a trailhead. From there, Jason and his crew make basecamp and proceed to View the full article

Day 4 of Ultimate Adventure broke with a smoke-obscured sun unable to move the thermometer very much at our campsite. But despite the chilly temperatures our last-minute campsite brought the beauty with a rippling creek running straight next to our low-lying valley field. We lined up and then hit the road for a few hours, View the full article

Just when you thought you’d seen it all, Four Wheeler magazine rounds up a mind-boggling collection of incredible 4×4 content and injects it into the November 2020 issue that goes on sale at newsstands around the world on September 25! Wide Open Wheeling The theme of the November 2020 issue is “Wide-Open Wheeling,” and the View the full article