Offroad

Hundreds of off-road outdoor enthusiasts and overlanders will gather in Oregon next month for the Toyo Tires Trailpass Experience. The event is free and open to the public. The Toyo Tires Trailpass Experience will feature display vehicles, industry vendors, how-to demos, workshops, a photography class, games, raffles, food, and more. Attendees have the opportunity to 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

Rezvani Motors just unveiled the 2020 Tank. Although it is technically not new (since it first came to market in 2017), Rezvani has made some major upgrades. This extreme off-road utility vehicle literally comes with all of the bells and whistles—and then some. The Tank has an on-demand four-wheel drive system and is part urban View the full article

We get a letter to the editor or a comment on one of our social media channels concerning the built versus bought debate on almost a daily basis. Some won’t have anything to do with the other, some express their distrust of the other, and some refuse to be seen in public with the other, 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

Young Dan Cressall’s father regaled him with stories about taking his early Ford Bronco off-road through mountain trails, so as a teen, Dan looked to his own two-by Toyota pickup to satisfy the same growing wanderlust. Yet he’d learn quickly that he’d need a 4×4 to take him farther down the trails less traveled. But View the full article

Maybe it’s The Stig. Maybe it’s the raw humor of Clarkson, Hammond, and May. Maybe it’s the lure of the luxurious and not-so-luxurious vehicles themselves. Whatever your motivation—and with a worldwide audience of 350 million, it’s safe to say you’re not alone—if you want to see more of the landmark series Top Gear, we’ve got View the full article

There are, give or take, a zillion and one products to make towing and hauling a better experience. And it’s pretty easy to find out the areas in which your truck is finding the struggle real. We’ve dug up a bunch of towing solutions, focused mainly on performance, ride, and the hitch area of a View the full article

We traveled to the Mojave Desert for a Mint 400–style meet and greet with Yokohama’s newest addition to the Geolandar lineup—the Geolandar X-AT. The tire fills the gap between the company’s current all-terrain tire, the Geolandar A/T G015, and its mud-terrain, the Geolandar M/T G003. Instead of spending all day hearing about the tires, we View the full article

Lexus and Blackberry Mountain have unveiled a new off-road adventure course in the Great Smoky Mountains in Eastern Tennessee. The resort is the newest addition to the Lexus Hotel partner program. The program offers exclusive hotel benefits to Lexus owners. The 90-minute Lexus Off-Road Adventure offers guests the opportunity to navigate a custom course View the full article

While modern trucks continue to dwarf torque and hauling figures of the past, there’s definitely more to the towing equation than pulling power. No different than properly setting up your 4×4, making sure your tow rig and your trailer are safe for you and others on the road is equally important. From choosing the right View the full article

Back in the day they were called Carryalls. The term “sport/utility” had not yet been coined. Most truck manufacturers had a panel truck based on their light-truck chassis, and that was the delivery van of the era. A variation was the Carryall, which added windows and seating to the equation. The Chevrolet Suburban is probably View the full article

You read the headline correctly. You can enter to win a ’18 Jeep Wrangler Hero Edition in the Ultimate Jeep Dream Giveaway. The drawing is sponsored by Bruiser Conversions and New Beginning Children’s Homes, which is a charitable organization providing long-term safe family-style care for foster children. Bruiser Conversions custom-built the ’18 Wrangler with all View the full article

We Want Your Photos! Busted trail carnage (we do like the gnarly breakage) Family-vacation-in-a-Jeep experience, especially if it’s vintage or parked in front of a monument or noteworthy thingy (like, world’s largest whatever) Vintage military Jeeps, especially when they’re old-timey with your old-timey relatives And, of course, sunk/stuck/rolled/drowned Jeeps Be sure to send us the View the full article

Our spies caught the 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee testing on public roads in Southern California this week, giving us a close look at the new SUV that’s slated to abandon its aging WK-platform bones in favor of Alfa Romeo’s stellar Giorgio architecture. These spy images reveal little except the new SUV’s general stance, which looks View the full article

Environmental groups are suing the Bureau of Land Management after it reopened 5,300 acres of land for off-road use in Utah’s Factory Butte back in May. The land was closed in 2006 to protect two endangered cactus species. The land borders Capitol Reef National Park to the west and is near the town of Caineville. View the full article

While overlanding is all the rage at the moment, its origins lie in English gentlemen crossing Africa in Land Rovers. Chris Brion doesn’t live in Africa, but he is a proper British gentleman and does drive a Land Rover. Chris has built a lot of Rovers over the years for everything from daily driving to View the full article

We may have found the most luxurious Land Rover on the planet. This Midnight Blue Defender 130 build was inspired by a ’17 Aston Martin DB11. The vehicle was built by E.C.D. Automotive Design, a company known for prestigious Defender builds. The design came from one of E.C.D.’s clients, who obviously loves the Aston Martin. View the full article

Mellow Yellow Randy Linke resides in the Sunshine State (Florida). He sent us his custom 1972 Jeep J2000 pickup that he built himself. It sits on a 1986 GMC Jimmy frame and running gear, has a Chevrolet 350 V-8 and Turbo 350 automatic transmission, and sports a Dana 60 front axle and 14-bolt rear—both with View the full article

Due to many requests, we’re republishing some of Granville King’s “From The Back Country” columns as space permits. These columns ran in Four Wheeler from 1984 until Granville’s passing in 1989 at age 70. Granville was a retired aerospace engineer and television screenwriter who lived off-grid in a trailer in Baja, Mexico. His off-road experiences View the full article