Go Home 5.0: 5 Ford Project Cars Ripe for a 2.3L EcoBoost Swap
We recently took at look at GM’s “LGT” 2.0L turbocharged four-cylinder engine and how it makes a great under the radar swap candidate for a variety of vehicles. Now it’s time to turn the tables and...
View ArticleOff-Road, Overlanding Porsche? Eurowise's Lifted 2008 Porsche Cayenne
When the Porsche Cayenne SUV in 2003 to compete in the emerging luxury SUV market, it was the most un-Porsche vehicle you could imagine. A Porsche with 4 doors, 5 seats and high ground clearance!? Had...
View ArticleReader Submitted: 5 More Unkillable Gas Engines With Bulletproof Reliability
We had an amazing response to our series of articles this summer that highlighted the unkillable engines of the automotive world. It's no surprise that the most reliable motors of all-time have a...
View ArticleWhy Performance Tires Are So Important to Performance Oriented Vehicles:...
If you're into getting the best performance out of your vehicle, you have to have good tires. Period. It doesn't matter if your car has 1000hp or 100hp, if your wheels are spinning all the time, it's...
View Article4 Weird High Performance Cars Detroit Almost Built (And What We Got Instead)
Most of the concept cars that grace the auto show circuit never end up seeing an assembly line. Either way out-there in terms of performance, prohibitively expensive to build, or featuring styling...
View ArticleJeep Gladiator Winch Bumper Upgrade | Inside Line
When I first picked up my 2020 Jeep Gladiator Rubicon, I knew that the stock front bumper would eventually have to go. This was for two particularly important reasons. The first being that it did not...
View ArticleUnkillable Diesels: 7.3L Power Stroke
Anyone familiar with the internal combustion engine knows that the diesel-burning variety tend to outlast the rest. Low-rpm operation, beefier internal parts and running on an oil-based fuel will do...
View ArticleMid-Engined Sports Cars to Station Wagons: 5 Mustangs That Never Happened
With production and sales of the all-electric Ford Mustang Mach E imminient, it will be interesting to see how the Mustang faithful accept the Mach-E, which is easily the most unconventional vehicle...
View Article5 American Domestic Cars And Trucks That Borrowed Japanese And German Import...
It's not all that unusual for car companies to share platforms with each other, pooling development costs across a shared architecture for sedans, coupes, and SUVs. Wholesale transplants of one...
View ArticleGM 2.7 Turbo vs EcoBoost: The Ford vs Chevy Battle Continues
When it comes to the increasing move towards smaller displacement turbocharged engines, particularly in pickups and SUVs, Ford’s EcoBoost engines have taken much of the spotlight.But GM has also been...
View Article4.5-second 0-60mph Hemi Jeep! The 470hp 2021 Rubicon 392 is the Fastest...
Earlier this year—not coincidentally just before Ford revealed the 2021 Bronco—Jeep showed off a concept version of its iconic Wrangler powered by a 6.4L Hemi V8.Long rumored for production, Jeep has...
View ArticleThe Next Chapter: Honda Debuts 2022 Civic Sedan Prototype with Turbo Power
Even with the explosion of SUVs and crossovers in recent years that’s led many automakers to abandon their sedan models in the American market, some of these traditional sedans have stood the test of...
View ArticleNew Looks, a Bigger Engine & More Fun: This is the New 2022 Subaru BRZ
When Subaru introduced its BRZ sports car for the 2013 model year, it represented a big change for the brand being a two-door, rear-drive coupe in a lineup full of AWD sedans and crossovers.The BRZ,...
View Article700hp Supercharged '70 Chevy Chevelle
Starting in the 1990's, muscle car enthusiasts started to look at the classic models from their youth differently. Cars that were considered top shelf performers in their heyday began to fall flat when...
View ArticleHistory of the Ford Super Duty, Part 4
The world of North American pickup trucks is a fast-moving one. If you don’t reinvent yourself every few years, chances are pretty good that you’ll get left behind. Perhaps that was part of Ford’s...
View ArticleThe Sad Saga Of The Ford Bigfoot Cruiser, The Forgotten 80s Monster Truck...
In the 1980s, Bigfoot was big news. This was especially true if you were a fan of Ford trucks, as Bob Chandler's monster machine was perhaps the highest profile pickup in the world for that long...
View Article10 Influential Chevy Truck Builds from the West (And 1 Incredible Ford F100)
What started out as a pre-show get together has become a fully sanctioned event of its own. 10-years ago Dino Battilana invited a few Chevy truck enthusiasts to his place in the Phoenix area to hang...
View ArticlePaul Rohm's Silverado Multi-tool
"The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn't fit, you make alterations." -Stella the barkeep, "Silverado" (1985)While Linda Hunt's character in Silverado wasn't talking about the truck of...
View ArticleUnkillable Diesels: 5.9L Cummins
It would be wrong, on a whole host of levels, to exclude the B-series 5.9L Cummins from any meaningful conversation about bulletproof engines. In fact, with the ability to last a million miles in a...
View Article5 High Performance Minivans You Didn't Know Existed
The idea of a high performance minivan might seem silly to some. After all, why take such a practical, stodgy vehicle and provide it with a heaping helping of horsepower and handling only to have it...
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