Offroad

We stood at the crest of an immense dune, straining our eyes to glimpse any movement in the desert below. To the north, an expansive sea of sand rippled toward the U.S. border like endless sets of waves across an ocean. To the east rose the imposing Sierra Pinacate, high volcanic peaks chiseled over millennia View the full article

Every year we go to the Specialty Equipment Manufacturers Association (SEMA) Show and wade through chromed-out show trucks and over-the-top 4x4s to find the products that will actually make your off-road vehicle more capable on the trail. Like last year, the Jeep Wrangler JL was a popular platform, but this year the Jeep Gladiator JT View the full article

Around every corner, down every aisle, new Jeep Gladiator builds dominated SEMA 2019. However, our radar was dialed in to the vintage and classic Jeeps. We searched high and low from the Performance Pavilion to the lobby of the Westgate Hotel, front feature lots to the hidden back lots, and we found them; the vintage View the full article

“Big Oly” Bronco Center stage in the Ford Bronco historic race truck display at SEMA 2019 was quite literally the most famous off-road racing vehicle in history. The “Big Oly” Bronco was designed and built in the emerging years of the sport and features a custom fabricated space frame made from 4130 steel tube covered View the full article

This story remembers soldiers that don’t usually get much attention: truck drivers. Back in the day, they held the MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) of 64A or 64B, and besides having to master the operation of military trucks, at a certain point in the Vietnam War they also had to master solutions to being killed on View the full article

SEMA 2019 brought every make and model of truck, car, SUV, and everything else to Las Vegas, Nevada, where it was up to us to search out the biggest and baddest—including everything Chevy. We took a few laps around the show floors looking for all things Bow Tie whether they were tactical, tricked, lifted, View the full article

The Truck Show Podcast Presented by Nissan in association with DECKED… …is a fun, irreverent, and edgy look at today’s world of custom and factory trucks, hosted by automotive journalist Sean Holman and veteran Los Angeles radio personality Jay “Lightning” Tilles. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the latest episode of The Truck Show Podcast. View the full article

Icon ICON Vehicle Dynamics stepped up to the plate with its Stage 1 Suspension System for the Jeep Gladiator JT and scored a home run, getting the Best New Off-Road Product award at the 2019 SEMA Show. The Stage 1 Suspension System is a bolt-on kit with dual rate front coil springs, adjustable billet front View the full article

Images from SEMA are awash with bling’d out show rigs that are so overdone that most couldn’t be safely driven down the road let alone the trail. But not all of these “show cars” are more fluff than filling. Some have the show and go down pat. The staff enthusiasts at the Four Wheeler Network View the full article

Bro-dozers aside, there actually are real off-roadable 4x4s at the SEMA show just about every year. Sure, some may never get wheeled hard while others do, but there are several here with the goods to get them down the trail and up the next obstacle. Here are 10 builds we know we would like to View the full article

By now you probably know what’s hot at SEMA 2019. The Jeep JL Wrangler and Jeep JT Gladiator are two of the most popular builds at the show, and we know that trend will extend into the real world lives of our readers. And while both the new Wrangler and Gladiator are both super capable View the full article

SEMA 2019 filled Las Vegas, Nevada with cars, trucks, and everything that goes “vroom.” We put on our proverbial horse blinders and took a lap around the show looking for all things Ford, whether they were lifted, leveled, tracked, tricked, or bulletproofed—we pointed a camera at them. Meet the Guhrka, an armor-clad behemoth from Terradyne View the full article

The SEMA Show is like nothing else in the world. It’s the largest gathering of people who love trucks, Jeeps, 4x4s, and cars, and the people who make parts, accessories, and upgrades for those trucks, Jeeps, 4x4s, and cars. It’s sort of like the Super Bowl of the automotive worlds. And by world, we mean View the full article

The SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) show in Las Vegas is a monster event that consumes almost every square inch inside the Las Vegas Convention Center. It also packs the area around the buildings. And saturating the show are 4x4s. Lots of 4x4s. Every size, make, model, and build level you can imagine. Seeing all View the full article

Tires are tires, right? Not really. There are good, better, and best in every category of truck, Jeep, and 4×4 parts, accessories, and upgrades. We’ve found four new tires at SEMA Show 2019 that fit into that better and best category. As a matter of fact, one of these tires received the “Best New Tire” View the full article

There is one overwhelmingly apparent fact: the Jeep Gladiator is the king of SEMA 2019. There are modified Jeep Gladiators for rock crawling, modified Jeep Gladiators for towing, modified Jeep Gladiators for overlanding, and modified Jeep Gladiators for hauling bikes and motorcycles. Heck, we even saw one lowrider Jeep Gladiator. And not only are there View the full article

The saying goes that when you need a winch, you really need a winch. We love winches, they have tugged us out of many a predicament. Every year totally new winches pop up at SEMA in Las Vegas, Nevada. The SEMA Show is the premier automotive specialty products trade event in the world with aftermarket View the full article

SEMA 2019 is packed with the newest, latest, and greatest—but greatest doesn’t have to mean straight off the dealer lot. This ’86 Sierra grabbed us by the eyeballs and had us crawling around looking at the little details which separated it from its glitzy neighbors. The Sierra had been through a few bigger engines before View the full article

If there’s one thing you can count on every year at the SEMA show it’s plenty of 4×4 builds sporting the newest off-road tires on the market. And this year was no exception. From teeny UTV tires to all-terrain truck and SUV offerings to Mickey Thompson’s newest 58-inch monster that makes a 43-inch mud terrain View the full article

The late Rod Hall was honored in a celebration during the 2019 SEMA show in Las Vegas. Hall passed away in June 2019 at age 82 after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. Rod Hall is the only racer to start or finish 50 Baja 1000 races. The last time he was in a race View the full article