Photo: Ford If you want a pickup truck that can handle pretty much anything you throw at it, it’s hard to do better than a Ford Ranger Raptor or Bronco Raptor. They aren’t cheap, but they were designed with hardcore off-roading and desert racing in mind and are ridiculously capable on the trail. For any … Read more
Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) With over 6.4 million cars on U.S. roads still carrying deadly Takata airbags, it was only a matter of time before there was another recall. Ford and Mazda issued “Do Not Drive” orders for over 475,000 vehicles from the 2003 model year until 2015. All the models were recalled previously but … Read more
Screenshot: Kia If you haven’t heard already, Kia is making a pickup truck. It’s called the Tasman, and while it’s understandable that you might assume it will be a Hyundai Santa Cruz with a different badge and styling, that couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s a legitimate, body-on-frame pickup truck aimed at midsize rivals … Read more
Ford heard the cries of its compact unibody truck buyers. The refreshed Maverick pickup now comes with the option of pairing Ford’s beefy 2.5-liter hybrid engine with all-wheel drive Maverick. Our problems are over! Ram Rampage Small Truck Pre-Orders Sell Out In 28 Minutes The Maverick has been a big success for Ford. Last year, … Read more
Those infamous Takata airbags—the ones with the accelerator that can send shrapnel flying towards the faces of folks sitting in the front of them—are still a massive problem on U.S. roads. Worse yet, some of the most humid and therefore dangerous states are home to nearly half of all unfixed vehicles Max Burkholder’s First Car … Read more
A woman was killed after she was hit and run over by a Horry County police in a truck on a beach in South Carolina this week. She was apparently hit by a 2020 Ford Ranger pickup around Thursday, 1 p.m. on Myrtle Beach. 2024 GMC Acadia Is GM’s Beefy Answer To The Crowded Midsize … Read more
Now more than ever before, automakers are catering to customers that genuinely want to go overlanding or off-roading (or at least look like they do), introducing trim levels of everything from hatchbacks and minivans to pickups and large SUVs that are designed to be better in the rough stuff. Reintroduced as a trim level with … Read more
A few months ago we shared spy photos of the new Kia Tasman, the brand’s first pickup truck. Designed primarily for Australia, Africa and the Middle East to do battle with trucks like the Ford Ranger and Toyota Hilux, the midsize body-on-frame Tasman is rapidly approaching its debut, and Kia just released the first official … Read more
We used to be a proper country. A country where performance pickups like the Chevy 454 SS, Toyota Tacoma X-Runner and GMC Syclone roamed the streets. Performance pickups still exist today like the Ram TRX and Ford F-150 and Ranger Raptor models, but they’re off-road focused. Things might have been different had Ford been first … Read more
Two, maybe three times in the lead up to driving the new Ford Ranger Raptor, I heard it compared to a rally car. This something that car companies have been increasingly eager to say about their cars in the last few years, and it’s also something that trips the old switch in my brain marked “skepticism.” … Read more
