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We drove the Citroën 2CV Sahara for the first time for the April 1966 issue of Four Wheeler magazine. The machine was the first of its kind to employ two separate engines, one powering its own pair of driving wheels, making the Sahara 2CV a four-wheel-drive vehicle. Citroën originally built its 2CV as a work View the full article

At a ceremony today celebrating the start of production of the new 2021 F-150 pickup, Ford also confirmed construction of the new Rouge Electric Vehicle Center. The Rouge Electric Vehicle Center will be built alongside the Dearborn Truck Plant at the historic Rouge Center. Once complete, the new facility will add about 300 jobs that View the full article

Keselowski, 36, has won at least one race for 10 consecutive seasons in the Cup Series and during eight of them he has won at least three or more races. His lone series championship came in the 2012 season, a year when he tallied five wins. Yet two seasons later, when he collected a career-high six victories, he ended up fifth in the series standings. “It takes so many little pieces to ...Keep reading View the full article

Day 3 of the Ultimate Adventure started at an elevation of roughly 8,500 feet as the group awoke for our 7:30 a.m. driver’s meeting next to Caruthers Lake. We did our morning thing, ate our eggs and sausage, packed our junk, and hit the trail we had negotiated the day before in the opposite direction. View the full article

We’re finally calling it done. The $500 work truck we picked up well over a year ago has had all manner of work done to it, and the miles we have put on it both on and off road are proof of the quality of work we performed on the truck as well a testament View the full article

The reigning Finnish rallycross champion made his World RX debut with a Gronholm RX-run Hyundai i20 in his home round of the series at Kouvola, and on his maiden appearance challenged for overall victory, eventually finishing second to Johan Kristoffersson in the round three final. In the second installment of the double-header, he missed out on a final start only due to a track limits penalty ...Keep reading View the full article

When GMC introduced the all-new 2019 Sierra 1500, one of the coolest features was the revolutionary MultiPro tailgate. Available across the lineup, and standard on higher trims, this new gate featured the ability to flip and fold into six (unofficially seven) different configurations to meet the changing needs of pickup owners. A year later, for View the full article

Day 2 of Ultimate Adventure started with our driver’s meeting, followed by our COVID safety officer and paramedic-Crony, Clifton Slay, administering one of our twice-daily temperature checks and other safety considerations. Hey, it’s the poopburger we gotta eat to make this happen. After doing our due diligence. we caravanned out of the hotel parking lot View the full article

Ekstrom was announced on Monday as the male driver for Cupra’s new Extreme E programme for 2021, in a collaboration with German team ABT, but having contested the opening two weekends of the World RX series, the double DTM champion has been given permission by his employer to race in the fifth and sixth rounds in Riga. Racing one of the Audi S1s built and developed by his own EKS squad, and ...Keep reading View the full article

The November 2020 issue of Four Wheeler magazine celebrates wheeling in the wide-open backcountry with a cover photo that will take your breath away. The image is of a Ram 2500-based Baja Runner exploring the desert, flanked by stunning, towering mountain peaks. An Offer That Couldn’t Be Refused The Ram 2500 Baja Runner is owned View the full article

Mayer, who competed with JR Motorsports’ Late Model program in 2018, will return to the organization next season will drive a JRM Chevrolet in the Xfinity Series in the second half of the year before transitioning to a fulltime competitor in the series in 2022. “Having the opportunity to return to JR Motorsports after racing late models with them in 2018 is definitely very special to me,” ...Keep reading View the full article

There it was, an honest-to-goodness, aluminum L92 engine. Don’t get us wrong, we love every single junkyard 5.3L LM7, but they are usually ratty, greasy, and full of rodent droppings. Yes, you heard us right, mice and rats often leave behind evidence that the engine bay was indeed their playground, especially after an engine has View the full article

When Ford finally unveiled the all-new 2021 Bronco the internet lost its collective mind. The new off-roader paid homage to the classic while providing nearly everything the wheeling public wanted in a dirt-centric SUV. However, rumors still persist that there is to be an even more capable Bronco in the lineup. A Bronco that’s geared View the full article

With the now-traditional, “Welcome to UA Day One” call to open the first morning driver’s meeting, Ultimate Adventure 2020 is officially on! After having our first driver’s meeting of the morning, the group fell in line out of the hotel parking lot and caravanned roughly 30 miles out of Kalispell, Montana, to Blacktail Wild Bill View the full article

Gaunt Brothers Racing has emerged as the front-runner to land Wallace for the 2021 season, Motorsport.com has learned. Wallace, 26, announced last week he would be leaving Richard Petty Motorsports at the end of the year. Gaunt Brothers is in its first season fielding a fulltime Cup team, currently with driver Daniel Suarez in the No. 96 Toyota. It has received minimal backing from Toyota this ...Keep reading View the full article

The Vila Real event at the town of Montalegre was due to take place on October 10-11 in the revised 2020 schedule. With the Belgian round at Spa getting moved to the end of November last month, Portugal would have been the next calling point following the Latvian double-header this weekend. The Municipality of Montalegre, organiser of the Portuguese event, had announced last month that its ...Keep reading View the full article

Roma, a Dakar winner in both the motorcycles (2004) and cars (2014) categories, makes the move after contesting the 2020 edition with Borgward, and will again compete with fellow Spaniard Dani Oliveras as his co-driver as he did this year. The 48-year-old will be contesting his 25th Dakar at the wheel of the BRX T1 4x4 designed and built by Prodrive, which is entering a two-car team in the ...Keep reading View the full article

We’re almost wrapped up with Project Over/Under and we’re upgrading the charging system for all of our future off-road adventures. View the full article

Creed, 22, and Smith, 21, are teammates at GMS Racing, and along with Brett Moffitt, the organization fills three spots in the 10-driver, seven-race playoff which opens Thursday night at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway. Creed’s inaugural win came in a rain-shortened race at Kentucky in July and he added wins on the Daytona Road Course and at Gateway to become the No. 1 seed entering the ...Keep reading View the full article

That’s it! The long-anticipated cat has left the bag. Not only is Ultimate Adventure 2020 a go, but it’s a go in one of the most beautiful parts of the lower 48. We’re kicking off UA2020 in Kalispell, Montana, gateway to Glacier National Park and the home of what seems like every beautiful vista imaginable. View the full article

Here’s an idea: Buy a classic 4×4 sight unseen, travel hundreds of miles to fetch it, modify it on site for trail duty, and then drive it over 2,400 miles home across seven states with 500 of those miles on dirt roads and 100 of them on the trail with the T-case in low range. View the full article

It was just a few months ago that we were reporting on Ford’s new Ford Performance accessory packages for the 2019 and 2020 Ranger. These packs brought with them bigger tires, unique wheels, Fox shocks, and more. Offered in three different levels, these packs range from mild to pretty darn wild. And, at the end View the full article

It’s not officially called the UAJKJ. In fact, when Fred Williams commissioned Hazzard FabWorx to build this double-ended JK Wrangler for Ultimate Adventure 2012, it was called things like the Ultimate Orange Jeep or the Off-Roadster or Wacky Which-Way Wrangler. I’m the one who started calling it the UAJKJ just to sort of hang an View the full article

The Spanish veteran will drive Hyundai's third works i20 Coupe WRC alongside regular drivers Thierry Neuville and Ott Tanak in the Sardinia-based event on October 8-11. Sordo secured only the second win of his WRC career, and his first for Hyundai in Italy last year, helped by a steering failure for the Toyota of now-teammate Tanak. The 37-year-old will be making his first top-level start ...Keep reading View the full article

For the second consecutive week – and with the best possible timing – Dillon turned in one of the his top performances of the 2020 season in Saturday night’s Cup Series race at Richmond (Va.) Raceway. Dillon opened the 2020 playoffs at Darlington with an impressive runner-up finish to winner Kevin Harvick. Saturday night, Dillon once again showed race-winning speed, led a career-high 55 ...Keep reading View the full article