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In response to the deaths of riders Paulo Goncalves and Edwin Straver on this year's first Saudi Arabian edition, a number of changes have been made to improve safety by rally organiser Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) ahead of this January's event. The most controversial change is the move to limit the riders to only six rear tyres for the 12-day rally in an ostensible bid to encourage riders ...Keep reading View the full article

Barreda has never won the Dakar despite having amassed 24 stage wins since his 2011 debut, tying him for fifth on the all-time list with Hubert Auriol. The Spanish rider came into this year's first Saudi Arabian edition carrying a rib injury, which was exacerbated by two crashes in the space of four days, and he finally finished seventh overall as teammate Ricky Brabec scored Honda's first win ...Keep reading View the full article

The world “overlanding” has taken on such an interesting meaning in the recent years. It can be used to describe everything from a simple weekend off-road trip with friends to an expedition around the globe. In either case, it’s important to have a sufficient supply of tools and parts on board to be able to View the full article

Like its name implies, the General Grabber A/Tx grabbed whatever was below it—and our attention. So, we took the General Grabber A/Tx on a wild, 10,000-mile-long ride to feel out just how well the tire performed in a wide variety of on- and off-road situations. We’ll throw out a spoiler here: Despite the rigorous driving View the full article

When we last left off, we had introduced our new long-term 2020 Ford F-250 Super Duty Limited. The truck sports a 6.7L Power Stroke diesel engine with 1,050 lb-ft of torque, 445 hp, and a 10-speed TorqShift automatic transmission. And the truck arrived to us in top-of-the-line Limited trim with an $89,000 price tag. In View the full article

Oliveras had tested positive for coronavirus over three weeks ago and said he has fully recovered since. However, the Spaniard has failed to return a negative test result before flying to Saudi Arabia for the start of the Dakar. On Monday, the team announced that Alex Wincocq will be Oliveras' last-minute replacement alongside Roma. "It is incredibly disappointing for Dani (Oliveras) not ...Keep reading View the full article

The Dakar has proved to be a two-horse race between Toyota and X-raid since Peugeot pulled the plug on its factory programme after three successive wins between 2016-18, with the two marques sharing wins between them in the two rallies held since then. But the two established manufacturers have a new potent challenger in 2021 in the Bahrain Raid Xtreme team, which has signed WRC legend ...Keep reading View the full article

Gerber is a huge company that makes a vast array of bladed tools and ships them all over the world. Many of its products are made in the USA, but some are manufactured in China and other countries. We recently did a story highlighting the pros and cons of eight new Gerber Overland and Camping View the full article

When you think of the Dodge Power Wagon, the extremely capable and surprisingly comfortable heavy-duty Ram 2500 pickup likely comes to mind. But the Power Wagon nameplate is hardly new; it was first used after World War II, when Dodge realized there was a civilian market for go-anywhere, heavy-duty trucks. Want to mix some of that new Power View the full article

Rally Monte Carlo is scheduled to kick off the series on January 21-24, although, at 174 competitive miles (280km), next year’s instalment will be the shortest in its history. Under strict COVID-19 restrictions implemented by the French government the organising Automobile Club de Monaco has decided to shelve a proposed Thursday morning shakedown stage for crews and, in a surprise move ...Keep reading View the full article

On This Week’s Show: Lessons in Welding 2021 Nissan Armada Merry Christmas! Curious about welding, or what equipment you might need to start? Learn the basics and hear some tips from master welder Rick Wright of Wright Designs, LLC. Brent Hagan from Nissan returns to talk about the redesigned 2021 Nissan Armada, and the guys View the full article

If trucks or off-road vehicles are your passion, then there’s a high likelihood that there’s a trailer or two in your life. Speaking from personal experience, I have been towing trailers my entire adult life. If your hobbies involve project trucks, hardcore wheelers, or UTVs, then you likely have a flatbed utility trailer. And if View the full article

Loeb is returning to the Dakar after a one-year absence to helm the new Bahrain Raid Xtreme outfit, where he will be joined by 2015 winner Nani Roma. The joint venture between British engineering firm Prodrive and the Bahrain sovereign fund has prepared an all new contender named the BRX1 for its Dakar debut in Saudi Arabia next month, featuring a bespoke 3.5-litre turbocharged petrol ...Keep reading View the full article

Meeke will drive PH Sport's Zephyr T3 in next month's Dakar Rally, which will take place in Saudi Arabia across a total of 7646km (4750 miles). The Northern Irishman is competing in the world-famous rally raid event for the first time, and had originally linked up with PH Sport in talks to compete in the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge and Dubai Baja, before both events were axed due to the COVID-19 ...Keep reading View the full article

Forget racks on racks because Toyota’s TRD-Sport trailer is a bed on, in, and with a bed. Created for this year’s SEMA360 show (the online replacement for this year’s canceled in-person SEMA event), the TRD-Sport trailer concept uses the bed of a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck as the canvas for an adventure-ready overlanding camping rig. In View the full article

Earnhardt, the 31-year-old grandson of the late Dale Earnhardt, will return to JD Motorsports next season and compete fulltime in the Xfinity Series, driving the team’s No. 0 Chevrolet. Earnhardt ran 29 races with the team in 2020, with a best finish of 11th at the Charlotte Roval. His season began with an agreement to run a handful of races but he eventually ran the vast majority of the ...Keep reading View the full article

Bell spent his rookie season with Leavine Family Racing before being promoted to JGR after the team ceased operations. He will be paired with crew chief Adam Stevens, who served atop the pit box for Kyle Busch for the past five years. The duo won the Cup Series championship in both 2015 and 2019, but a change was made after a lackluster 2020 season. “I think if you look at 2020 as a whole ...Keep reading View the full article

Harvick, 45, was named the winner of the award named after former seven-time Cup Series champion Richard Petty following a vote of the National Motorsports Press Association membership. Harvick received 45 percent of the votes cast. Also receiving multiple votes were 2020 Cup champion Chase Elliott, 2020 IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon and Kyle Larson, who won 46 races on dirt this ...Keep reading View the full article

Ram has started production of its highly anticipated 2021 Ram 1500 TRX half-ton pickup truck at the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP) in Sterling Heights, Michigan. This plant was originally built for making jet engines and ballistic missiles by the military in 1953. Most recently, nearly $1.5 billion was invested in SHAP to get it View the full article

Elliott, who has won five race NASCAR Cup road course races, will be competing in the opening round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for the first time. He will find himself in competition with – and teamed with – his former Hendrick Motorsports NASCAR teammate Jimmie Johnson, who will be sharing a second Action Express Racing Cadillac with Simon Pagenaud, Kamui Kobayashi and ...Keep reading View the full article

With Tommi Makinen stepping down as team boss at the end of the 2020 season to become Toyota’s motorsport advisor, Latvala will move into the team principal role having been selected by Toyota president Akio Toyoda. Latvala will "bring a driver’s perspective” to its management team of project director Yuichiro Haruna, sporting director Kaj Lindstrom, and technical director Tom ...Keep reading View the full article

The 19-year-old son of 2003 World Rally champion Petter Solberg will spearhead Hyundai Motorsport's WRC2 assault next year, with a graduation to a World Rally Car understood to be on the cards for the following season. The move to the Alzenau-based team marks Solberg's step up to a full factory seat, having driven in association with Skoda Motorsport through this year, and competed in both ...Keep reading View the full article

Only one car - with Ford driver Chris Buescher - took part in the test and spent much of the two days making single-car runs around the 2.5-mile oval. "Daytona was an important test for us, because when we come back here in 2022 we have to make sure we hit the speed targets that we're looking for," said John Probst, NASCAR's senior vice president of racing innovation. "We came here with one ...Keep reading View the full article

NASCAR has completed a two-day test at Daytona International Speedway with its Next Gen car earlier this week, focusing on hitting speed targets View the full article

On This Week’s Show: Retired Air Force Pilot Bert Garrison Jr. Ram TRX Warm Dr. Pepper For those gearheads who love to fly, this episode will be a pretty special one, as the guys become fast friends with retired Air Force pilot Major Bert G. Garrison, Jr. What started as a campfire conversation about overlanding View the full article