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On This Week’s Podcast: Heatshield Products’ Steve Heye Jordan Mulbauer from Daytona Truck Meet Truck IQ: What Does Holman Really Know? Go behind the scenes of Heatshield Products with Steve Heye to learn about thermal management products, the proper way to absorb sound, and why hot-rodding a smoker with Heatshield Products is a good idea. View the full article

Aside from some small modifications, NASCAR officials said Monday during a preview of the 2021 season many of the same virus protocols remain in place from 2020. Much of what will determine NASCAR’s ability to handle fans at event weekends will fall on conditions of local communities where the races take place. One race – at Auto Club Speedway in California – has already been canceled ...Keep reading View the full article

Fact: For most of us, camping and wheeling go together. It’s a safe bet that where there’s folks gathered to wheel for more than a day there’s probably camping involved. I’ve Had Dysfunctional Camps I’ve camped since I was a kid. Our family started with a tent, graduated to a 1960s-era Apache camper (which was View the full article

The Nissan Hardbody is one of the most iconic, legit mini trucks of the ’80s and ’90s. Everyone either had a Hardbody or knew somebody who had one—and has a story or two to share about that Hardbody. It fits nicely into that clan of indestructible mini trucks—alongside the Toyota pickup, Isuzu P’up, Chevy S-10, View the full article

GMC will bid farewell to its all-electric 2022 GMC Hummer EV Edition 1 VIN 001 during Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale Auction at WestWorld of Scottsdale, Arizona, which takes place from March 20–27, 2021. VIN 001 means that this sale is for the first retail production Hummer EV pickup that’ll come off the production line at Plant Zero, View the full article

Keselowski is renowned as one of the sport’s most successful superspeedway racers, having won six points races at Daytona and Talledega since 2005, but his failure to win the 500 in 11 attempts is plain to see. “My frustration level is pretty extreme, to be quite honest with you,” he said. “I feel like I’ve made some mistakes in that race, no doubt, but the last few years specifically ...Keep reading View the full article

Hamlin has spent the entirety of his NASCAR Cup Series career with JGR, dating back to when he made his debut in 2005 and his relationship with FedEx going even further back. The partnership has allowed Hamlin to win 44 races, including three Daytona 500s in 2016, 2019 and 2020. "The relationship between FedEx and our organisation has been a tremendous success story in so many ways and we're ...Keep reading View the full article

Three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin will continue his involvement with the Joe Gibbs Racing team and sponsor FedEx after agreeing a new multi-year deal View the full article

Hamlin has spent the entirety of his NASCAR Cup Series career with JGR, dating back to 2005. The relationship with FedEx goes back just as long. Together, they have won 44 races, including three Daytona 500s. “The relationship between FedEx and our organization has been a tremendous success story in so many ways and we’re excited that FedEx will continue to support Denny and our No. 11 ...Keep reading View the full article

Deep in the South African bush, in and around Kruger National Park, there exists an elite, specially trained team of rangers tasked with protecting wildlife from poachers. They’re not your standard, Ranger Smith-type characters, though. These rock stars of the conservation world are more akin to warriors, as they are regularly forced into combat situations View the full article

Unimogs are unique 4x4s that can be found around the world serving duty as part of many jobs. They generally stand out from the crowd because of their portal axles and coil suspension with torque tubes which combine to make them incredibly capable off-road. We first talked about the Unimog in “What Is a Mercedes View the full article

Don’t worry, things have not gone completely off the rails at the MotorTrend offices, despite last year’s best efforts. As fun as it would be to watch, supercars are not built for overlanding (but maybe they are nowadays?), and even the Top Gear America hosts wouldn’t subject those rolling pinnacles of art and engineering to View the full article

Dodge W350 in Process Attached are some before and after photos of my 1984 Dodge W350 crew cab truck I purchased some years ago. It was to be a joint restoration project between my wife and myself. Unfortunately, she passed away in 2015. The truck has all of 60,000 original miles since new, and I bought View the full article

This is one of those articles that seems like it should be started with the statement, “Books could be written about what a Mercedes Unimog is.” That’s the truth, and we are sure that books have and will been written. Still, we will try to distill what a Mercedes Unimog is into a few paragraphs, View the full article

We’re somewhere east of Flagstaff, Arizona, in the Coconino National Forest. A bustling film crew crunches back and forth over shifty piles of ancient lava rock. There’s no one around for miles; cellphone service is nonexistent. One car has stubbornly conked out halfway up a steep hill. We’re losing light, and fast. In any other View the full article

The Toyota Land Cruiser nameplate is officially dead in the U.S., while older Land Cruisers are prone to have their own setbacks. What to do? On the one hand, there are some hardcore guys ‘n gals out there that like the “full experience” that an untouched vintage 4×4 vehicle has to offer. Kudos to this View the full article

Among the many changes to the Cup schedule for 2021 are the addition of several more road course events, along with the first dirt track race in more than 50 years as the Bristol Motor Speedway is converted into a dirt course. The NASCAR Cup field last raced on dirt in the 1970 North Carolina State Fairgrounds circuit, and was won by Richard Petty, but since then only the third-tier Truck ...Keep reading View the full article

The 2021 NASCAR Cup Series schedule offers plenty of new challenges – ones Joey Logano says will test the adaptability of series drivers. Among the many changes to the Cup schedule are the addition of several more road course events, the first dirt track race in more than 50 years and new venues like Nashville Superspeedway. Logano, 30, is among several series drivers using the downtime ...Keep reading View the full article

2018 NASCAR Cup champion Joey Logano is looking forward to the series' first dirt race since 1970 at Bristol, but is trying to keep his season preparation balanced View the full article

Set to make its Cup Series debut at next month's Daytona 500 with 2016 Xfinity series champion Daniel Suarez at the wheel, Trackhouse will run the #99 Chevrolet Camaro machine, having secured a technical partnership with the established Richard Childress Racing outfit. Marks, a former NASCAR and sportscar driver himself, will be co-owner of the team, alongside Grammy award-winning rapper ...Keep reading View the full article

Former NASCAR driver now team co-owner Justin Marks believes delaying NASCAR's next-generation Cup car until 2022 is a "blessing in disguise" for his new Trackhouse Racing squad View the full article

The 2020 Toyota Sequoia TRD Pro was the oldest in this year’s test. While the other three vehicles were all-new, the Sequoia has been around in largely this same configuration since the 2008 model year. Making the Sequoia eligible for the 2021 Four Wheeler SUV of the Year test is the addition of the desert-oriented View the full article

JGR announced Wednesday that Dillon will drive the team’s No. 54 Toyota in several Xfinity Series races this season, beginning with the Feb. 13 season-opener at Daytona International Speedway. At this time he is also scheduled to run the Feb. 27 race at Homestead, Fla., March 6 at Las Vegas and April 24 at Talladega. Dillon will be one of at least five drivers who will compete for the team ...Keep reading View the full article

Top Gear America host Dax Shepard’s car love is no secret. He was on Conan talking about his 700-horsepower Buick Roadmaster station wagon, and he’s appeared in MotorTrend previously showing off his garage. There’s much more to Shepard’s car obsession than what he owns, though. “I’m in to all cars,” Shepard told us. “I can’t think View the full article

After a decades-long hiatus, Land Rover has finally returned the Defender nameplate to the U.S. market with the all-new 2020 Land Rover Defender 110. Because of the vehicle’s late introduction, although it qualified for our 2020 Four Wheeler of the Year test, no testers were available at test time. Because of this, the 2020 model View the full article