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Deegan, 18, will compete in her first race next week as a Ford development driver, co-driving the No. 22 Multimatic Motorsports Ford Mustang GT4 with Chase Briscoe in the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge Race at Daytona International Speedway. The paint scheme of the car Deegan and Briscoe will drive in the race was unveiled Friday and its red, white and blue livery is a tribute to the Roush ...Keep reading View the full article

Register your ride today! Get your adventure rig or moto to the OC Fair & Event Center March 7-8 in Costa Mesa, California, and be a part of Four Wheeler’s brand-new flagship event, Adventure Expo. Hundreds of off-road, overland and adventure-kitted trucks, Jeeps, vans, SUVs, and adventure motorcycles will be on display. Check out camping, View the full article

Every year in the middle of January, we all tune into the motor trend Channel for the better part of a week for Barrett Jackson Scottsdale, the granddaddy of all collector car actions. We watch intently as some of our favorite custom trucks roll over the block, and watch even closer as the gavel drops View the full article

More on Driving in the Snow! Snow Driving 101 Do You Really Need Snow Tires? SnoClaws- Getting You Out of The Snow With the onset of winter and the deluge of snow in many regions of the US, having your four-wheel-drive pickup truck prepared for travel in frosty conditions important. Driving safely when Mother Nature View the full article

Alonso, who has been sampling various motorsport categories after leaving Formula 1 as a two-time champion, posted a best stage finish of runner-up in a Toyota Gazoo-run Hilux in his first Dakar outing. Though a stop for repairs on the second stage and a roll on the 10th stage cost him several hours in the general classification, Alonso was buoyed by how competitive he has proven, and believes ...Keep reading View the full article

The 48-year-old Straver was contesting his third Dakar rally on a KTM 450 EXC, again competing in the 'Original by Motul' class after topping it the year prior. The sub-category features riders competing without any assistance crews, with Dakar organiser ASO instead providing certain resources. Straver entered the 11th stage 38th in the overall bike classification, but crashed in the opening ...Keep reading View the full article

Partnering up with a new co-driver in Sean Berriman for the 2020 edition, Currie was among a number of Can-Am drivers vying for supremacy in the first week of competition. But as his rivals dropped away one by one, and defending champion Francisco 'Chaleco' Lopez gave up nearly an hour in the first stage after the rest day, Currie was suddenly in possession of a 30-minute lead. Lopez made ...Keep reading View the full article

Previously a champion in 2014, Karginov led Anton Shibalov to wrap up what was ultimately a walkover Kamaz win, even if it had threatened to become less straightforward than expected in the early stages of the event. Against the backdrop of Eduard Nikolaev and Dmitry Sotnikov, who were first and second for Kamaz last year, dropping out of contention in the opening week, the Belorussian MAZ ...Keep reading View the full article

Two-time world rally champion Sainz, father of McLaren Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz Jr, finished 6m21s clear of reigning champion Nasser Al-Attiyah after 12 stages. Representing X-raid Mini in this year's event, Sainz will now have won the Dakar with three different manufacturers, having previously triumphed with Volkswagen in 2010 and Peugeot in 2018. The victory is X-raid Mini's first ...Keep reading View the full article

Casale, who returned after a one-year excursion into the SxS category last year, dominated the quad class for the duration of the marathon. Laying the foundation of his title with three stage wins in the first four days, he finished every time in the top three until Stage 10, which threw a spanner in the works as he got lost and conceded much of his lead. But Casale was not fazed as he beat ...Keep reading View the full article

Brabec, who is in his fifth Dakar and had been leading when he retired with an engine failure last year, has taken the overall lead with a win in Stage 3 and never surrendered it, placing in the top five in all but one of the remaining stages. The one exception was the penultimate day when Pablo Quintanilla was able to close the gap from 25 to 13 minutes ahead of the shortened last ...Keep reading View the full article

Check out last week’s Truck Show Podcast on how Cummins engines are made. On This Week’s Show: L5P Durability Mini Truck Showdown RPM Act The Truck Show Podcast returns from the holidays with a great story of a guy who has over 500,000 miles (that’s half a million miles) on his 2017 Chevy Silverado HD View the full article

Jones served as the driver during a two-day test at Homestead-Miami Speedway this week with NASCAR’s new car design, which will debut in the Cup Series in the 2021 season. While the test car still has a manufacturer-generic overall design, several features continue to stand out, including the far more stock-looking wheels and wheel well, body side molding and character lines, hood design and ...Keep reading View the full article

The new 2021 Ford Bronco is one of the most highly anticipated 4x4s to be unveiled by any manufacturer in recent memory. Speculations abound about what the finished product will be. Will the 2021 Ford Bronco will live up to the intense hype or will the curtain drop at its unveil with a pathetic descending View the full article

This follows initial test runs at Richmond and Phoenix at the end of last year, with Austin Dillon and Joey Logano driving respectively, and this car is set to form the basis of NASCAR’s Cup machinery from 2021. Click on the arrows on the images above to scroll through them. Read Also: Top Stories of 2019, #9: NASCAR bets the farm on Next Gen future Ford chief: NASCAR Next ...Keep reading View the full article

More On Diesels! 10 Best Diesel Engines Ford F-250 Super Duty Wins Truck Trend’s 2020 Pickup Truck of the Year Award Diesel Vehicles Of The 1980’s The 10 all-time-best diesel pickup trucks. Wow. Talk about opening Pandora’s Box, a can of worms, and a potential firestorm of differing opinions, all in one topic. When it View the full article

Every year in the middle of January, we all tune into the motor trend Channel for the better part of a week for Barrett Jackson Scottsdale, the granddaddy of all collector car actions. We watch intently as some of our favorite custom trucks roll over the block, and watch even closer as the gavel drops View the full article

Al-Attiyah and Peterhansel both made inroads into Sainz's lead in the penultimate test as the Spaniard opened the stage, and they now both sit just over 10 minutes adrift. The final Haradh - Qiddiya test on Friday was due to be contested over 374km, but construction of gas pipelines on the route has forced the organisers to slash the timed special down to 166km. And though rally director ...Keep reading View the full article

Graf, 21, will compete with SS Greenlight Racing this season, driving the No. 08 Chevrolet and competing for rookie of the year honors. Patrick Donahue will serve as his crew chief. Donahue worked with Gray Gaulding at the organization last season. “Bobby (Dotter, team owner) and Patrick prepare solid cars. To have the chance to get into a competitive race car for a full season is exactly ...Keep reading View the full article

It’s official! Four Wheeler’s 2020 Pickup Truck of the Year winner is the Jeep Gladiator! Four Wheeler, in publication since 1962, has been hosting Pickup Truck of the Year for 31 years and the annual event is an invitation-only competition that is only open to all-new or significantly revised pickup trucks for the upcoming model View the full article

The stage, which was originally scheduled to be a 374km test to wrap up the event, will now be reduced to 166km. Works for new gas pipelines are being carried out by Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company in the vicinity of Haradh, renowned for its oil and gas-rich fields. The route for the 12th timed stage was planned to cross the area. Competitors will instead complete a 130km link from ...Keep reading View the full article

Sainz had to open the road in the 379km timed special within the stage taking the competition back to Haradh from Shubaytah. He consequently gave up nearly five minutes to Peterhansel in the first 100 kilometres as he navigated the dunes of the Rub' Al Khali, but would limit the damage over the rest of the special, ending up eight minutes slower than the stage winner at the finish. This will ...Keep reading View the full article

Ott Tanak won the WRC title last year and had the right to take the number one for his car this year, but has decided against it and will run number eight instead. The WRC changed its rules for numbers in 2019 following an F1 and NASCAR-style strategy of allowing drivers to pick numbers rather than the numbers being linked to the team's manufacturer championship finishing position. Tanak's ...Keep reading View the full article

Quintanilla built up a one-minute advantage in the early part of the 379km Shubaytah-Haradh test, but was chased down rapidly by KTM rider Matthias Walkner, who assumed a narrow one-second lead at the 324km way point. But the Chilean rider fought back in the final stretch to the finish line, taking the stage victory by just nine seconds from Walkner. That allowed him to heavily cut into the ...Keep reading View the full article

Chevrolet is happy to collect 80 grand or more from fiercely brand-loyal buyers looking for a top-shelf Tahoe or Suburban, but fancy folks looking to spend that kind of money are usually snobbier about their brands. They’re the folks who will end up at the GMC store, where range-topping Denali-spec products account for 30 percent View the full article