Offroad

We met Matt Swithenbank and his 6BT Cummins-powered 1994 Ford F-250 at the 2020 King of the Hammers race. His diesel-powered Ford caught our eye with its custom-built tube bed, overland tent, and 40-inch tires. Read more about how the truck came to life! 1994 Ford F-250: The Goal “The only reason I got this View the full article

I like wandering around my nephew’s northern Illinois farm because there’s always interesting things to see; he likes to buy broken stuff, repair it, and use it. Buy ‘Em Broken, Fix ‘Em, Use ‘Em My nephew, Troy, is on my wife’s side of the family. He purchased my father-in-law’s farm, and like his grandpa, is View the full article

Go Devil Run Part 1 In the article here, we told you all about the fun, frivolity, and funny hats that were a part of the first annual Go Devil Run (or GDR). With the morning of the third day of the GDR we, the flatfender aficionados and old-timey adventurers packed up our vintage camping View the full article

Hi, my name is Verne Simons, and I have a problem. I can’t leave anything alone. I like to modify 4x4s mostly, but I’ve been known to tear all manner of things apart in an attempt to make them better—or at least what I think is better. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. And sometimes View the full article

Selecting the best tire for sand isn’t as cut and dry as you may expect. Just like there are many different types of snow, each requiring a different set of skills and equipment to successfully negotiate, so too are there many different types of sand. You’ve got loose, dry sand that can seem bottomless, moist View the full article

On This Week’s Truck Show Podcast: Bogi Lateiner from All Girls Garage Cerakote’s Tim O’Malley Why We Love The DMV/Personalized Plates The guys talk shop with Bogi Lateiner from All Girls Garage, a show on the MotorTrend App, learning about her BMW-powered Chevy pickup project, her love of vocational training, and how overmatched they are View the full article

We’re back in David Freiburger’s garage while he’s Working From Home and checking out more of his collection of automotive treasures—plus, a first look at his new project car. View the full article

Pair Of Trailers Here’s my driveway-built overland trailer and my Carson Trailer car hauler that gets used frequently by my family and friends. Daniel Via email Lifted Trailer I recently read your “Firing Order” column on towing and trailers. I’ve been towing for 30-plus years. Utility trailers, enclosed snowmobile trailers, car trailers with cars or my View the full article

What’s best, a nearly stock 2018 Mahindra Roxor, a fairly stock 1948 Willys CJ-2a, or a fairly built 1987 Suzuki Samurai? Let the test begin—sort of. Truth is, in a perfect world all vehicular comparisons would follow as scientific of a pattern as possible. All of the vehicles being compared would have the same mileage View the full article

Here’s another project recap of a vehicle I built back before social media existed and before our websites really stored and aggregated photo captions and images correctly. If you’ve got old print copies of Jp magazine from the 2004-2005ish time frame, you probably have some of these original stories, but as I’ve done with several View the full article

If you’ve never had a chance to rip, crawl, or haul around in a 4×4 truck or SUV on an off-road route, then you really need to get it on your automotive enthusiast bucket list. There’s a magic about it, the adventure of it, that you really need to experience. Ah, but what 4×4 to View the full article

Back in November 2019, Ram Trucks announced a line of special edition Ram 1500 pickups dedicated to the five branches of the United States Armed Forces. The Built to Serve Edition was launched on Veteran’s Day in conjunction with the company’s goal of providing a cumulative 1.3 million community volunteer hours from Ram Nation members View the full article

Vehicle manufacturers do a really good job of balancing power, performance, comfort, fuel economy, and emissions. To say it’s a difficult balancing act would be quite the understatement. Oftentimes this leads to shifts that are comfortable but not quick, or less engine power output than can be reasonably achieved. There are a multitude of reasons View the full article

The most recognized face in the world of winching just got better. Introduced in 1974 as next in the lineage for Warn upright winches after the Belleview/M6000 and 8200 series, the version of the Belleview winch M8274 packed all of the modern features we’ve come to enjoy from modern electric winches, all with a blazingly View the full article

We constantly scour the internet in search of the newest and coolest parts for your trucks. This week, we’re taking a look at a trio of awesome product that is sure to impress. Ridetech StreetGrip Lowering Kit For 2004 to 2008 Ford F-150 There are a lot of companies that specialize in lifting trucks, but View the full article

David Freiburger is dragging Mike Finnegan to Colorado to pick up his new truck, a 1966 Dodge D100 Utiline, on the MotorTrend App’s latest episode of Roadkill. View the full article

Ford’s first mass produced 4×4, the Ford GPW military jeep, is a sometimes forgotten chapter in the history of trailblazing off-road vehicles and of Ford in general. Despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of GPWs were built for use during WWII, they faded into obscurity thanks in large part to Willys, the company that View the full article

Yeah, we do this for a living, but we’re also human, and humans make mistakes. And whether by our own hands or by the circumstances we’ve put ourselves in, we sometimes get the short end of the stick. Here are some of the staff’s tall tales of their scariest moments when playing truck, Jeep, and View the full article

The 2020 Jeep Gladiator is the perfect platform for accesorization, and Mopar has the most complete lineup of Gladiator parts today, covering everything from function and performance to style and comfort. We recently took delivery of Mopar’s Gladiator demonstration vehicle for a week, which was upfitted to the tune of $12,000 to give us a View the full article

In the July 1966 issue of Four Wheeler, much was new and exciting as the magazine reported on plastic gas tank research for the Jeep Wagoneer, military Jeep Gladiator pickups, and Slantback tops for the International Scout. Jeep Wagoneer Plastic Gas Tanks – Patent to Practice Four-wheel-drive owners, alongside most other automobile owners, pumped gas View the full article