Offroad

A lot of what we do around here is based around working on trucks and SUVs. Because of that, you’d think that we all have the most immaculate personal garages and shops around. Well, this author is ashamed to admit that his own Fortress of Solitude was quite the train wreck. Like most garages, ours View the full article

Tom Major chopped the frame of the 2002 Dodge Dakota from the firewall forward and rebuilt it using 4×3-inch, 3/16-inch-thick box tube. This allowed him to get rid of the Dakota’s wide frame horns and also gave him space to mount the steering box he gleaned from a Ford Bronco, replacing the factory rack-and-pinion setup. View the full article

Before the Ford F-150 Lightning, before the ten-cylinder Viper-powered Dodge Ram SRT-10, before the Chevrolet S-10 Xtreme, the turbocharged GMC Syclone pickup truck and mechanically similar GMC Typhoon SUV stormed the market. These all-wheel-drive pioneers brought performance, big horsepower, and sportscar-killing performance to the truck and SUV space long before doing so came into vogue. The GMCs View the full article

So if you don’t like flatfender Jeeps, we are not sure that we can be friends, and it’s definitely you and not us. Flatties are pretty awesome, and as we are all lamenting the lack of an Easter, Jeep Safari 2020 it’s a great time to celebrate Flatties in Moab. So if we have your View the full article

On This Week’s Truck Show Podcast: Mike DeFord from Titan Fuel Tanks Know Your Note Listener Tunes Up Our Intro Learn what goes into extending your fuel range with a Titan Fuel Tanks high-capacity fuel tank, find out if Lightning and Holman “know your note,” and enjoy a new version of The Truck Show Podcast View the full article

After a month of social distancing under our belts, we’re betting that you’re looking for some new forms of entertainment right about now. And if you made it this far, it means that you’re like us and want to consume some automotive-themed content to help you get through the downtime. Then do we ever have View the full article

A VIN decoder for the 2021 Ford F-150, which depicts what each number or letter in a VIN means, has revealed three interesting tidbits about Ford‘s reworked pickup. Notably, the information pertains specifically to F-150s powered by gasoline, electric, and diesel “fuels.” Kicking things off is that the VIN decoder has a specific line item for the four-door Raptor View the full article

We are lovers of all things powerful. Really though, how could you not be? This rings especially true when a big engine is stuffed under the hood of a vehicle that really shouldn’t have one. Mid-size two-row SUVs have become our absolute favorite vehicles in this regard, and no one seems to do it better View the full article

“Custom awesomeness.” That’s how Todd Nonn described his ’12 Jeep Wrangler to us before participating in our 2019 Four Wheeler Overland Adventure East with his dad, Steve Nonn, and girlfriend, Beatrix Hartmann. Once we saw the Jeep in action off-road and camping, we could see that was indeed accurate description-ness. Buying a Jeep JK Todd View the full article

The Ford F-150 Raptor pickup feels like a long-running staple, but there have only been two of them. The original was introduced for 2010, and lasted through 2014 before being replaced by the second-generation model in 2017. Both are hugely upgraded F-150s with awesome suspension modifications, muscular flared fenders, and big-horsepower engines for bashing around View the full article

Hennessey announced the Maximus 1000, its Hellcat V-8–powered Jeep Gladiator pickup in May of last year. But after nearly a year of testing—at least some of which took place in the desert—the crazy powerful modified Jeep is finally making its way to prospective owners. Oh, and Hennessey put together a sweet video showing just how extensive View the full article

Fred and Dave are buddies of mine. If you ever met either of them, you’d find they’re just normal guys just like any other you’d probably find yourself hanging out with on the trail. However, there’s probably one big difference between Fred and Dave and your buddies on the trail. When Fred and Dave sit View the full article

We’ve always been a fan of the underdog, the freaks, geeks, oddballs, and weirdos, and for some reason many very cool weird trucks and 4x4s have popped up in Moab for EJS over the past 10-15 years. Weird or different is good because, after all, you can’t break the mold of what anything is if View the full article

In our ever-enduring quest to make our trucks more useful we’ve happened upon BuiltRight Industries. BuiltRight is a small company based out of Connecticut and headed by 2018 SEMA Launch Pad winner Matt Beenen. They are dedicated to bringing high-quality, American-made products to the masses. While the company’s catalog is limited at the moment, focusing View the full article

Jim Oldaker took a slightly different approach to building a monster truck when he started not with a heavy-duty, body-on-frame truck, but a ’72 Dodge Tradesman. Back in the April 1985 issue of Four Wheeler, we visited Jim and the van he once called his “aging daily driver.” More 4×4 Van Action What Is a View the full article

We love Jeeps. We love going to Moab for Easter Jeep Safari. And we love finding cool Jeeps of all years, types, and styles at Moab Easter Jeep Safari. But Jeeps aren’t the only kind of vehicle you’ll find on the trails in Moab. With many trails that feature wide turns and few chances for View the full article

Get the BEST DEAL EVER—$1 per month! Binge Dirt Every Day, along with 3,500+ hours of automotive entertainment, on the MotorTrend App! Fred Williams and Dave Chappelle kick off season 9 of Dirt Every Day with a fun adventure in a 1966 Ford Bronco U13 Roadster. As usual, the boys have to do a fair View the full article

From the front, this 2003 Jeep Wrangler looks to be a JK Wrangler. From the side, the Jeep looks to be a YJ, given your gaze falls only on the doors. Greg Pedersen of Lake Havasu, Arizona, piqued our interest when we rolled past his Jeep at King of the Hammers 2020 (KOH2020). The first View the full article

You might be currently thinking one of these three questions: “What is that thing?” or “Where do you take that thing?” or “What’s in the back?” The short answers: John Marshall’s ’05 Mercedes-Benz Unimog U500 expedition camper; everywhere; and everything. The Unimog in general still manages to give many people a case of the verklempts, View the full article

So, you bought a Ford Explorer for four-wheeling and overlanding. Now you’re wondering: Was that a really bad idea to decide to build one? Yes. Well, no. It’s not the vehicle that’s the problem here; it’s the lack of aftermarket parts, if you ask Al Maurine, whom we met on our 2019 Four Wheeler Overland View the full article