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Russo and Steele Automobile Auctions is auctioning an ultra-rare 1962 Meyers Manx Dune Buggy in January. The vehicle is one of the first produced by Bruce Meyers that fueled the dune buggy craze in the 1960s. “This is the ‘holy grail’ in both stunning original condition, including the factory gel coat, in the most desirable View the full article

Chase Elliott won NASCAR's most popular driver award for the second consecutive year View the full article

Driving the pickup trucks and SUVs in the sand dunes during Four Wheeler’s 2020 Pickup Truck and SUV of the Year test helps us learn a ton about how each vehicle handles. Though the skies were overcast and the clouds were spitting raindrops on our windshields, we headed for the sand dunes on Day 3. View the full article

Me: I’m going to drive my truck to Alaska this year for Ultimate Adventure! Editor Hazel: Yeah, lots of people are doing that. Trent already drove the Rover up to prerun the route. Me: Oh, but I’m going to drive a truck with a big-block! Editor Hazel: Yeah, the Watsons are driving their shop truck View the full article

Many are familiar with the Christopher McCandless story of Into the Wild. Well, on Episode 4 the Ultimate Adventure partially retraces his ill-fated steps and you join us on Ultimate Adventure week on Motor Trend’s YouTube channel youtube.com/user/MotorTrend. After awaking at our campsite next to a lake flanked with bear and moose track and completely View the full article

Beginning next year, the Cup Series will no longer feature the name of one entitlement sponsor for the entire season. For the past three seasons, Monster Energy has sponsored NASCAR’s premier series. In 2020, four “premier partners” – Busch Beer, Coca-Cola, GEICO and Xfinity – will constitute the cornerstone of consumer marketing and fan development initiatives surrounding the Cup ...Keep reading View the full article

The World RX schedule was published with two TBC’s at the end of October, and with the Latvian round having been announced a fortnight ago, Russia’s addition to the schedule completes the calendar. The Russian event will take place in mid-July (18 – 19) as the sixth of 11 rounds. The rallycross layout sits alongside the Hermann Tilke-designed circuit that will also host DTM for the ...Keep reading View the full article

NASCAR moved its annual season-ending celebration to Nashville this year View the full article

It’s Day 3 of Ultimate Adventure week on Motor Trend’s YouTube channel youtube.com/user/MotorTrend and get ready for Episode 3. With three days of trail under our tires, Ultimate Adventure was due for a road day. But it wouldn’t be Ultimate Adventure if we only drove on pavement. The group left the sleepy town of Glennallen View the full article

RCR announced this week that Alfredo will share driving duties in its No. 21 Chevrolet in the Xfinity Series next season with Myatt Snider. Alfredo, who has competed in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and in Trucks the last two seasons, will drive several races in the No. 21 in 2020. His schedule will be announced at a later date. Both Snider and Alfredo are students at UNC ...Keep reading View the full article

Climbing rocks is part of how we examine the trucks and SUVs during the Pickup Truck and SUV of the Year 2020 tests at Four Wheeler. After lining up the SUVs for a sunrise photoshoot against the snowy and jagged Sierra Nevadas, we joined the eight trucks and proceeded off the pavement. The Pickup Trucks View the full article

The most notable change is the promotion of crew chief Mike Shiplett to the No. 41 team from its Xfinity Series program. SHR already announced Xfinity driver Cole Custer would move to the No. 41 next season and now his crew chief will come with him. Custer and Shiplett amassed a career-high seven wins and six poles with a runner-up finish in the championship standings in 2019. Crew chiefs ...Keep reading View the full article

Citroen Racing has told Motorsport.com it won't run the cars itself - the Versailles team's only rally commitment moving forward is with its customer programme C3 R5-class car - but there's nothing to stop the World Rally Cars being used by private teams. Citroen team principal Pierre Budar said: "[To see the cars compete next year] the most likely option is for the cars to be sold or run by a ...Keep reading View the full article

Ford is feeding Bronco fever with an exclusive store on Amazon. There is plenty of pent-up demand for the 2020 Bronco, which is slated to make a world premiere in the spring. Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Ford has a new store available with plenty of Bronco-themed merchandise. The new Ford Bronco View the full article

We recently had an opportunity to review Toyo Tires’ new Open Country SxS tire. Released in the summer of 2019, the Open Country Radial was designed specifically for side-by-sides. First of all, the tire is big. At first glance when picking up the tires from Toyo’s warehouse, we thought the staff had brought us the View the full article

We recently had an opportunity to review Toyo Tires’ new Open Country Radial tire. Released in the summer of 2019, the Open Country Radial was designed specifically for side-by-sides. First of all, the tire is big. At first glance when picking up the tires from Toyo’s warehouse, we thought the staff had brought us the View the full article

Lajoie has re-signed with Go Fas and will pilot the No. 32 Ford Mustang for the second consecutive season. In 2019, he placed 29th in the standings and scored two top ten finishes -- a sixth in the July Daytona race and a seventh in the fall Talladega race. "I'm really happy that we were able to work it out so I'm able to drive the No.32 Mustang in 2020. This group is a lot of fun to go to ...Keep reading View the full article

How do we select the best truck and SUV from the 2020 model year? Well, hop in and ride along for Four Wheeler’s 2020 Pickup Truck of the Year and SUV of the Year where we will put three SUVs (Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, eTorque V-6; Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon, EcoDiesel; Land Rover Range Rover Sport View the full article

How do we select the best truck and SUV from the 2020 model year? Well, hop in and ride along for Four Wheeler’s 2020 Pickup Truck of the Year and SUV of the Year where we will put three SUVs (Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, eTorque V-6; Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon, EcoDiesel; Land Rover Range Rover Sport View the full article

After an exhaustive search, we’re proud to announce the hosts of Top Gear America, coming exclusively to the MotorTrend app in spring 2020: Dax Shepard, Rob Corddry, and Jethro Bovingdon. Or, as they tell it: two comedians, a guy who’s actually British … and the Stig. “If we’re ever given a script, I promise the View the full article

Forget any American cousin you may have seen, the Stig has landed in California to film the MotorTrend exclusive series Top Gear America alongside hosts Dax Shepard, Rob Corddry, and Jethro Bovingdon (meet the hosts here). We cornered the reclusive racing driver and TV personality during a promotional photo shoot in hopes of gaining some View the full article

Ultimate Adventure week continues on at Motor Trend’s Youtube channel youtube.com/user/MotorTrend December 2-6. In Episode 2 the Ultimate Adventure participants fill the fuel tanks, stock the coolers, and head out into the Alaskan wilderness for a couple days of off-roading and extreme overlanding. We entered the Eureka Trail System as the foliage was starting to View the full article

The annual NASCAR Cup Series awards show and its surrounding activities moved to Nashville this year from Las Vegas and WWE hosted its live “Raw” show in town on Monday night, three days before the Cup Series event. Sitting on the front row were Busch, his wife, Samantha, and the couple’s 4-year-old son, Brexton. During a segment when wrestler R-Truth (Ron Killings of Charlotte, N.C.) ...Keep reading View the full article

“It’s loud, fast, and mixes easily with water,” is how the author described this particular swamp buggy back in the June 1985 issue of Four Wheeler, and we couldn’t agree more. For the uninitiated, swamp buggy races are endemic to Florida and feature vehicles purpose-built for navigating the deep mud and boggy waters at impressively View the full article

Due to many requests, we’re republishing some of Granville King’s “From The Back Country” columns as space permits. These columns ran in Four Wheeler from 1984 until Granville’s passing in 1989 at age 70. Granville was a retired aerospace engineer and television screenwriter who lived off-grid in a trailer in Baja, Mexico. His off-road experiences View the full article