Image: Ford Motor Company The street-style truck is back with Ford’s new Lobo package for the facelifted Maverick compact pickup truck. With lower suspension, a unique front fascia, painted accents, and fresh-to-heck 19-inch turbine-style wheels, this truck looks like it came out of a custom shop right off the assembly line. Inspired by the lowrider … 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
Vehicle-to-grid technology is slowly expanding, with more automakers and power companies starting to offer the functionality. Ford, Sunrun and the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company have partnered with three F-150 Lightning owners to use V2G tech to shore up the state’s power grid. Ford Is Gearing Up To Make A Lot More F-150 Lightnings Ford … Read more
Image: Toyota Back in the early 2000s, the Tacoma was still a small—ish pickup you could buy new for cheap. Base models with no options started just under $12,000. If you wanted a cheap, fun to drive pickup, Toyota had you covered. Four years before the sports car fighting Tacoma X-Runner hit the scene, the … Read more
Screenshot: StanceWorks on YouTube How much car can you buy for $80,000? In the new market that would get you a decent Porsche Boxster or C8 Corvette. Those are pretty impressive cars, to be sure, but neither have the presence or rip-your-face-off-ness of this StanceWorks-built Ford Model A hot rod. That’s right, you can buy … Read more
Cadillac just gave its flagship gas powered, and we mean gas powered since the diesel is dying in 2025, model a facelift. Like many of its buyers, the current Escalade has been around for a while, but its had its best features accentuated with a new, more chiseled look and a more luxurious interior than … Read more
Photo: Toyota (Getty Images) If there’s one thing Americans love, it’s full-size pickup trucks. Compact crossovers are incredibly popular, sure, but the Ford F-150 and Chevrolet Silverado are still the top dogs in the U.S. Both Nissan and Toyota have tried to steal some of those big truck sales but have been largely unsuccessful. Until … Read more
Photo: Jeep The state of Florida is a strange place full of swamps, gators, and climate change deniers, so the irony of Jeep’s latest Florida-only special edition Gladiator called the High Tide Edition will be lost on any Floridian who buys one. Jeep has released Wrangler High Tide Editions in 2022 and 2023, but this … Read more
The Goodwood Festival of Speed is a hillclimb event founded over 30 years ago that takes place in West Sussex, England every summer. Goodwood isn’t known for being a particularly rowdy automotive event, in fact the website recommends “smart casual” as the dress code, but that didn’t stop New Hampshire–born pro drifter Ryan Tuerck from annihilating the … Read more
Image: Stellantis Trucks have replaced sedans and wagons as the everyday driver from thirty years ago, that’s just a fact. Remember when your friend’s mom in high school had a wagon with seats in “the way back” that folded out of the floor? What’s old is new again. Ram filed a patent for a third … Read more
