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High Tech Dampening Who: Belltech Sport Trucks What: Dynamic Tuning System Why: Have you ever wanted to go from Off-Road ready to Street driving in a snap? The Belltech Dynamic Tuning System may just be the answer for you. These shocks and coil-overs feature technology that has been inspired by a long history of racing View the full article

Every organization faces different hurdles during such an undertaking, based on its size for one. Chevrolet teams have the added workload of adjusting to a new model Camaro this season and will have upgrades introduced later this year to its engine cylinder hear and block. A lot of questions about the 2021 car still have to be answered – it’s still in the early stages of testing and teams ...Keep reading View the full article

This year’s class – the 11th in the history of the Hall – included Waddell Wilson, Buddy Baker, Joe Gibbs, Bobby Labonte and Tony Stewart. Here are some of the highlights from the induction speeches during the ceremony: Waddell Wilson “Standing here on this stage is something I never dreamed I would be doing. I thank God for the many blessings and people He has put in my life that ...Keep reading View the full article

Moffitt will run the first four races of the season to help the team's transition into the Xfinity Series (Daytona, Las Vegas, Fontana, Phoenix). He will pilot the No. 02 Chevrolet Camaro with Joe Williams atop the pit box as the crew chief. Moffitt, the 2018 Truck Series champion, has three previous starts in the Xfinity Series with a best finish of ninth at Iowa in 2012. “I am really ...Keep reading View the full article

Check out Episode 100, where our first Truck Show guest returns to the podcast. On This Week’s Show: Webasto’s Ryan Evans Brian Dooley from Hummerguy.net The guys enjoy a circuitous chat with Webasto’s Ryan Evans and cover a few topics you might expect and a few topics you’ll never see coming. Holman shares all the View the full article

King of the Hammers 2020 comes back to Johnson Valley and the Means Dry Lakebed. If you know about the Hammers, then you know what a spectacle Hammertown is. For the uninitiated, each year at about this time, the barren desert east of Victorville, north of Big Bear Lake, and west of the Twentynine Palms View the full article

The 2020 Chevy Camaro in the Cup Series features a new body that is similar to what has been run the last two seasons with the most prominent difference being the nose of the car is much more rounded. The Chevy ZL1 had a far more distinctive and pointed nose – a feature which seemed to give the Chevys difficulty when it came to bump-drafting on the superspeedways. “I can tell you this ...Keep reading View the full article

I have two trucks that I wheel, a 1980 K20 and a 2006 Chevy 1500HD. I’m looking for a snorkel that I can adapt to either vehicle, as I can’t find anyone that makes a snorkel for either vehicle. I live in northern Canada and we have lots of deep waterholes, so I need something View the full article

Check out the Top 10 Episodes of The Truck Show Podcast. On This Week’s Truck Show Podcast Show: Go Fast Campers’ Graeme MacPherson Aldan American’s Garrett Harmola Listener Engines In the spirit of companies manufacturing in America, we have two entrepreneurs from different spectrums of the truck market. Lightning and Holman check in with Graeme View the full article

General Motors confirmed a legend’s return—sort of—in the form of the 2022 GMC Hummer EV. Hummer, a name last seen on the 2010 H3 small SUV, will come back sometime next year as a GMC product, built in GM’s heavily modernized Detroit-Hamtramck manufacturing facility. GMC claims the Hummer EV will produce 1,000 hp and an View the full article

Allmendinger, who won the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series race at the Charlotte Roval, will return for an eight-race schedule this year. The 38-year-old will be back behind the wheel of the Kaulig Racing Chevrolet, racing alongside teammates Justin Haley and Ross Chastain once again. He will pilot the No. 16 car. "A.J. (Allmendinger) has played an instrumental role in competition for Kaulig ...Keep reading View the full article

The ‘8’ would be a NASCAR-record eighth Cup series championship for Johnson, who is currently tied with the late Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty with seven titles to his resume. Five of those titles came in succession between 2006 and 2010, a NASCAR record. Johnson has also won 83 races (most among active drivers) in a career dating back to 2001 spanning 651 races. He's also a two-time ...Keep reading View the full article

What’s the point of running an NP205 with a crawl box? By the time you buy a 205, rebuild it, buy a crawler box, buy the internal parts for the crawl box, and twin-stick kit, isn’t it just easier to buy an Atlas? It seems like by the time you jump through all the rebuilding View the full article

In this age of maximum—maximum luxury, accessories, parts, products, packages, add-ons, and technology—I set off on a quest to “build” (via manufacturers’ configurator tools) the cheapest full size trucks on the market today and then investigate the possible pros and cons of such trucks. Don’t get me wrong. I love me a luxury pickup truck View the full article

We’ve known about the 2021 Ram Rebel TRX for some time now, and ever since it debuted in concept form at the 2016 State Fair of Texas, we’ve lusted after the prospect of a long-travel off-roader powered by a Hellcat supercharged 6.2L V-8. Confirmed for production last year, the Rebel TRX has just been spotted View the full article

Building a rig for overlanding isn’t just about the bits and pieces you add. You have to start first with the basics: which vehicle to build. In the case of Ben Gardner, it came down to Toyota. He had a ’90 4Runner that was used for traveling and four-wheeling, but found it underpowered and it View the full article

ICON Vehicle Dynamics presents Adventure Theater, March 7-8 at the OC Fair & Event Center as part of Four Wheeler Adventure Expo. Get inspired by this compilation of short films showcasing outdoor, active lifestyle and off-road adventures. BUY TICKETS Entry to Adventure Theater is included with the purchase of an Adventure Expo ticket. Purchase event View the full article

The decision to call up Breen in place of nine-time World Rally champion Loeb was announced on Monday in the wake of the latter's disappointing sixth-place Rally Monte Carlo finish. However, the 45-year-old revealed that Hyundai team boss Andrea Adamo gave him the option of whether to participate in Sweden or not, and that he decided against it. "I didn't have any particular desire to go [to ...Keep reading View the full article

The 2020 Mahindra Roxor will get a slight cosmetic update, possibly a deliberate attempt to create stylistic distance between the off-highway side-by-side and Jeep’s old CJ-7. For 2020, the Roxor does away with its cascading, “4 ½-slot” grille in favor of a rounded rectangle grille with a body-color surround. Forming an oval around the headlights, View the full article

Suarez’s move was reported earlier this month by Motorsport.com. Suarez, 28, will drive the No. 96 Toyota, reuniting him with the manufacturer with which he enjoyed much of his early success in NASCAR competition. “My NASCAR career started off really well and Toyota was a very big part of that. To have them in my corner again gives me a lot of confidence,” said Suarez, the 2016 Xfinity ...Keep reading View the full article

The biggest change fans will notice is the alteration of stage lengths for 16 races in the Cup series, with the most common difference being a shortening of the third stage. The overall lengths of races did not change (except for the new doubleheader at Pocono Raceway this season). The Daytona 500 will now have stages of 65, 65 and 70 laps. The final stage of last year’s race was 90 ...Keep reading View the full article

When the tire has “Mud-Terrain” plastered across the sidewall, our first question for the General Grabber X3 was “but what else can it do?” We installed a set of 35×12.50R17 X3s on our two-door ’17 Wrangler and went through our typical weekend routine—driving far and near in search of wild terrain. Whether it was a View the full article

2020 Pickup Trucks’ Towing Capacity! New Trucks That Tow 10,000 Pounds or More New Trucks That Tow 20,000 Pounds or More New Trucks That Tow 30,000 Pounds or More There’s probably no bigger arena in the automotive sphere where marketing spin flies faster and harder than with pickups. And it gets even crazier when it View the full article

“Have I mentioned that there are no parts available for S-10s?” Taylor Wise asked that a couple of times while telling us about building his ’89 Chevy S-10. Then why did he pick that vehicle, you may ask? It found him. Kind of. The story of this pickup begins at the side of the road View the full article

The six-time World Rally champion fell 12.6 seconds short of Hyundai rival Thierry Neuville during the 2020 curtain-raiser in his first competitive outing as a Toyota driver, ending a streak of Monte Carlo wins dating back to 2014. Although he said he didn't feel comfortable to push hard in pursuit of Neuville, Ogier bolstered his points haul by finishing second on the Power Stage, leapfrogging ...Keep reading View the full article