Offroad

Check out the Top 10 Episodes of The Truck Show Podcast. On This Week’s Truck Show Podcast Show: Go Fast Campers’ Graeme MacPherson Aldan American’s Garrett Harmola Listener Engines In the spirit of companies manufacturing in America, we have two entrepreneurs from different spectrums of the truck market. Lightning and Holman check in with Graeme View the full article

General Motors confirmed a legend’s return—sort of—in the form of the 2022 GMC Hummer EV. Hummer, a name last seen on the 2010 H3 small SUV, will come back sometime next year as a GMC product, built in GM’s heavily modernized Detroit-Hamtramck manufacturing facility. GMC claims the Hummer EV will produce 1,000 hp and an View the full article

What’s the point of running an NP205 with a crawl box? By the time you buy a 205, rebuild it, buy a crawler box, buy the internal parts for the crawl box, and twin-stick kit, isn’t it just easier to buy an Atlas? It seems like by the time you jump through all the rebuilding View the full article

In this age of maximum—maximum luxury, accessories, parts, products, packages, add-ons, and technology—I set off on a quest to “build” (via manufacturers’ configurator tools) the cheapest full size trucks on the market today and then investigate the possible pros and cons of such trucks. Don’t get me wrong. I love me a luxury pickup truck View the full article

We’ve known about the 2021 Ram Rebel TRX for some time now, and ever since it debuted in concept form at the 2016 State Fair of Texas, we’ve lusted after the prospect of a long-travel off-roader powered by a Hellcat supercharged 6.2L V-8. Confirmed for production last year, the Rebel TRX has just been spotted View the full article

Building a rig for overlanding isn’t just about the bits and pieces you add. You have to start first with the basics: which vehicle to build. In the case of Ben Gardner, it came down to Toyota. He had a ’90 4Runner that was used for traveling and four-wheeling, but found it underpowered and it View the full article

ICON Vehicle Dynamics presents Adventure Theater, March 7-8 at the OC Fair & Event Center as part of Four Wheeler Adventure Expo. Get inspired by this compilation of short films showcasing outdoor, active lifestyle and off-road adventures. BUY TICKETS Entry to Adventure Theater is included with the purchase of an Adventure Expo ticket. Purchase event View the full article

The 2020 Mahindra Roxor will get a slight cosmetic update, possibly a deliberate attempt to create stylistic distance between the off-highway side-by-side and Jeep’s old CJ-7. For 2020, the Roxor does away with its cascading, “4 ½-slot” grille in favor of a rounded rectangle grille with a body-color surround. Forming an oval around the headlights, View the full article

When the tire has “Mud-Terrain” plastered across the sidewall, our first question for the General Grabber X3 was “but what else can it do?” We installed a set of 35×12.50R17 X3s on our two-door ’17 Wrangler and went through our typical weekend routine—driving far and near in search of wild terrain. Whether it was a View the full article

2020 Pickup Trucks’ Towing Capacity! New Trucks That Tow 10,000 Pounds or More New Trucks That Tow 20,000 Pounds or More New Trucks That Tow 30,000 Pounds or More There’s probably no bigger arena in the automotive sphere where marketing spin flies faster and harder than with pickups. And it gets even crazier when it View the full article

“Have I mentioned that there are no parts available for S-10s?” Taylor Wise asked that a couple of times while telling us about building his ’89 Chevy S-10. Then why did he pick that vehicle, you may ask? It found him. Kind of. The story of this pickup begins at the side of the road View the full article

If the standard, plain-Jane Ford Bronco isn’t rugged enough for you, then you might be interested in this vehicle spotted in Michigan recently. With more off-road goodies than other Bronco mules we’ve seen, could this be the 2021 Ford Bronco Raptor, built to battle the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Recon? Is a Ford Bronco Raptor on View the full article

We’ve been getting teased with Ford’s four-door Bronco, but now we’ve been treated to a glimpse of the SUV in its two-door form. What We Know About The Two-Door Ford Bronco: Shorter wheelbase (think: two-door Wrangler) Independent front suspension Solid rear axle Larger BFGoodrich KO2 all-terrain tires It might not be the production-bodied vehicle we View the full article

Keep Your Diesel Truck Charged! Battery Essentials – Basic Training High-Output Alternators Save the Day Cranking over the high-compression mass of a diesel engine takes a lot of stored energy to accomplish. This is why diesel trucks use two high-cranking-amp batteries to get the pistons pumping. Most trucks rely on two lead-acid batteries to do View the full article

We get a new look at the suspension under the 2021 Ford Bronco, as well as some rolling footage of the long-awaited SUV. Confirmed 2021 Bronco Suspension Details: SOLID rear axle Linked rear suspension Jeep-like fullsize spare tire Independent front suspension Front skidplate Body-on-frame construction 255/75R17 tires…for now With the Bronco debuting in Spring View the full article

More on Tires! Tire Test Guide – Choosing The Right Tire Bias Versus Radial Trailer Tires Understanding Tire Load Ratings Toyo Open Country H/T Tires – Tire Test Guide Let’s talk about rubber meeting the road for a moment. Like, literally. Unless your truck moves around on bulldozer-style Mattracks or some other intricate running gear, View the full article

If industrial designer Brooks Stevens had today’s materials and manufacturing when he designed the Jeep Wagoneer in 1963 as the successor to the Willy Wagon, how would it have been different? Noted vehicle restyler Jonathan Ward of Icon 4×4 asked himself that question when undertaking a 1965 Wagoneer project. “We wanted to basically build an View the full article

Read the First Report: Long-Term Test First Report: 2019 Ram 1500 Rebel 12 Crew Cab Our love-affair with the Ram Rebel continues with this second report. So far, the truck has exceeded our expectations for what a well-rounded 1/2-ton can be like to live with in daily life. From its composure over any terrain, the View the full article

The 2020 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Recon marks a return of the SUV’s most off-road–capable special edition. Building from the already hardcore Wrangler Rubicon, the Recon adds a variety of goodies to improve its performance when the pavement turns to dirt and rocks. Foremost, the Rubicon Recon is available only with Jeep’s novel 2.0L turbocharged I-4 View the full article

ARB has recently made several improvements to its Classic series of Fridge Freezer portable off-road overlanding refrigerators with the release of the Classic II. Most notably, the fridge now supports wireless display and monitoring from any smartphone via the new FridgeConnect app. We outfitted the Ultimate International with one of ARB’s 50-quart Classic II Fridge View the full article