Offroad

The Moab Easter Jeep Safari is a bit of every recreational enthusiast 4×4 activity rolled into one awesome week. You can go off-roading on dozens of world-class 4×4 trails, poke around back roads in search of potential early Jeep projects and yard art, cruise the main drag through town on Highway 191, go hang out View the full article

The apocalypse, rumor, actual evidence, and fear of both, leading to the end of the world as we know it, is everywhere. From sci-fi zombie movies, repent-or-die tales from every major religion, nuclear winter, geologists warning about the caldera under Yellowstone—people are clearly constantly thinking about the proverbial poop hitting the fan. From EMPs to View the full article

In 1959, Studebaker had been in business for 107 years, first building wagons and then automobiles. Studebaker became a pillar of the American auto industry in every sense of the word, but by the early ’50s, it was clear those days were over. Studebaker continued slugging it out, and if a couple of things had View the full article

Tuffy Security Products now offers a pickup bed storage system for the Jeep Gladiator. The storage system includes two long compartments that fit along either side of the pickup bed. The boxes feature three separate lids with dividers, keeping adventure gear organized and out of the elements. The Tuffy lockboxes are manufactured from 16-gauge, 1/8-inch-thick View the full article

If you thought the Hummer H1 was unique, you need to meet the Toyota Mega Cruiser. When the Japanese armed forces were looking for a new ride for the 1990s, they asked many of the same questions as the U.S. military—and came up with the same answers. It’s hard to say if the Mega Cruiser’s View the full article

Four Wheeler’s 2020 SUV of the Year is the hard-core, weeklong shootout where we determine the best SUV by significant driving in sand and snow, up hills and across dunes, over jagged rocks, through water, and more. To test the 2020 models, we drove each SUV roughly 1,000 miles, mixing highway and track data in View the full article

When we first sat down and drafted a plan for our 2013 Ford F-150 Raptor project we knew from the get-go that an “overland” themed build was the way to go. The term “overland” gets thrown around a lot these days, and the best way we’ve heard it defined is as “self-reliant adventure travel.” It View the full article

Manual transmissions used to be a standard item on all pickup trucks. In fact, there was a time not long ago when the manual transmission was standard on all vehicles. Over the decades, though, automatic transmission technology has improved exponentially. Shifts are faster and smoother from an automatic than a normal human can achieve with View the full article

Moab is like a second home to Jeepers and off-roaders alike. Heck, this author even eloped to Moab when it was time to get married. And of course, Easter Jeep Safari is one of the best times to make your way to this magical and mystical town in Southeastern Utah. The reasons should be obvious View the full article

If you haven’t seen the MotorTrend original streaming series, “NASCAR ALL IN: Battle for Daytona”, and taken a revelatory inside look behind the scenes of professional stock car racing, now is the perfect opportunity. Not only do plenty of us have extra time at home on our hands right now, but on Friday, April 3, View the full article

Normally we’d be loading up the 4×4 and heading to Moab, Utah, for the annual Easter Jeep Safari. But thanks to the responsible social distancing necessitated all across the world, instead of trekking off to our favorite off-road event we’re living a paraphrase of John Candy’s immortal line in the movie Vacation: “Sorry folks, Moab’s View the full article

The Jeep Wrangler Sahara, Range Rover Sport, and Jeep Wrangler Rubicon all faced off during SUV of the Year, and each impressed the expert judges on- and off-road. At the end of the test, we asked each judge which SUV they’d bring home if given the chance, and these were their responses: Stuart Bourdon, View the full article

Driving on sand is a really fun way to spend a stress-free day in your Jeep, SUV, pickup, or UTV. With beaches you pretty much only need to maintain momentum to avoid getting stuck. But sand dunes factor all of that in along with other three-dimensional hazards. Outside of an unintentionally hard landing after a View the full article

When engineers at Kaiser first put pen to paper in the early 1960s designing a new SUV, it’s almost certain that none of them expected the rugged people mover would be built nearly without change for an astounding three decades. The Full-Size Jeep, or FSJ/SJ platform, as it came to be known, was introduced to View the full article

When Nissan launched the not-quite-HD XD in 2016, the company thought it had the right solution, a tweener of trucks that would hit the sweet spot of more-than-a-half-ton but stay clear of the true ¾-ton class. With three cab configurations, two bed lengths, and even an optional Cummins 5.0L turbodiesel V-8 engine, not everyone understood View the full article

Let’s address the elephant gun in the room: With maybe one or two exceptions, none of the rifles on this list are typical truck guns. Traditionally a “truck gun” is a shotgun or rifle either of very short scale, with a folding stock, or one that can collapsed into a tight, small package. In any View the full article

Have you been duped yet? Here are some of the clever 2020 April Fool’s Day jokes we’ve seen circulating the internet…because the internet never lies, right? Enjoy! Get those Decked drawers out and get ready to Decked-xercise with Decked. You’ll be sore after all those Drawer Dork reps. KC HiLiTES introduces the NEW Gravity LED View the full article

Any time we hear about a midsize truck making over 700HP—which is just about never—we make sure we get intel and let you know all about it. Recently, we heard about a Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 with a supercharged LT4 V8 swap and wanted to get down to the bottom of it. Check Out These Videos! View the full article

Social distancing is touted as a way of flattening the curve, and we are all for it … as long as it means we can spend time away from other people in our 1946 CJ-2a. That’s exactly what we did last weekend when our pal and fabricator extraordinaire Ian Liljeblad proposed we participate in the View the full article

Several of us here at the Four Wheeler Network eat, breathe, and sleep our off-road obsession all day every day—even during a national emergency. Still, we like to do other things, such as spending time in the shop working on our 4x4s, going camping with our 4x4s, and planning long trips with our 4x4s. When View the full article