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How Does The Ford Maverick Compare To The Hyundai Santa Cruz Pickup Truck?
The Ford Maverick and the Hyundai Santa Cruz give compact truck shoppers two enticing choices after more than a decade of dominance from larger, mid-size models. Better to drive than their full-frame...
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Nomad Grapplers Meet Badlands’ Offroad Park
Nitto’s new Nomad Grappler crossover-terrains have been along for the ride on our ’16 RAV4 for two months now, and not only did they make the tail-end of winter more tolerable but they’ve tamed the...
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An STI Replacement & Type R Rival: Toyota Storms Hot Hatch Segment with the...
Say hello to not just one of the most anticipated enthusiast cars of the year, but one of the most anticipated Toyotas to come around in decades.No More TeasingAfter a couple of years of hints and...
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What To Expect At U.C.C. 2022: Cutting-Edge Tech, New Records And Carnage
For fans of compression-ignition, the Ultimate Callout Challenge (U.C.C.) is fast-becoming the event of the summer. As an all-in-one drag race, dyno, sled pull and truck show spectacle, it’s arguably...
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IRS vs Live Axle: Is There a Superior Choice for Your Muscle Car Project?
Car enthusiasts have a tendency to be fanatics not just for their preferred brand or model, but also for specific types of automotive engineering.Rear-drive, mid-engined, turbocharged, naturally...
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2022 Formula Drift Round 1: The Mean Streets of Long Beach
The 2022 Formula Drift season kicked-off with a return to the Streets of Long Beach in April once again. Due to California event attendance restrictions, the 2021 Long Beach round was held last...
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Review: The 2022 Kia Sorento PHEV SUV Promises To Slice Your Family Fuel Costs
The larger your family gets, the higher your fuel bill climbs—at least, that's usually the story when seeking out a daily driver that's capable of transporting the entire brood in one go. A recent...
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The Original Toyota Truck: How the Toyota Stout Pickup Laid Ground for the...
If you think about to the lineage of Toyota pickup trucks in America, the first era many people will go to is the 1980s, when Marty McFly’s black 4x4 on the silver screen helped show that the brand had...
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Ready for Daily Adventures: RAV4 Nomad Grappler Crossover-Terrain Tire Review
With the growing popularity of overlanding, more and more off-road inspired builds tend to be based on CUVs. The Toyota RAV4 is especially popular, as is the entire “CUV” segment of the market. These...
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Top 5 Dead Trends for Lowered Trucks
The world of custom truck is ever evolving with styles that come and go. Though we are used to seeing highly modified trucks, it was not the norm in the early days of light-weight haulers. A century...
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Unrivaled: The World’s Only 3,000rwhp Street-Driven Diesel Pickup
Diesel heads have been gunning for 3,000hp on the chassis dyno for several years, but last fall Chris Patterson was the first to reach the summit. Since his once-daily-driven (but still completely...
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More Than Just Performance: The Coming Challenge of Building "Fun" Electric Cars
By this point, just about every auto enthusiast knows the potential of electric vehicles when it comes to performance. We’ve all seen the videos of Teslas smoking muscle cars at the drag strip and seen...
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ULTRA4 Off-Road Racing Regionals Kicks-Off with the Area BFE Beatdown in...
If you are unsure of how the new Ultra4 series was going to unfold this season you are not alone. For those of you that are new to the off-road racing community or still have your news feed full of...
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What's It Like To Get Your Classic Car, Truck, Or SUV Evaluated For Insurance?
As the depth of the classic car field spreads into the late '90s (using the traditional definition of any vehicle 25 years old or greater), more and more owners are facing the prospect of having to...
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Half Pickup/Half SUV: The Lasting Legacy of the Chevy Avalanche
We like to think that we currently live in the peak of pickup truck and SUV popularity and there’s a lot reasons why that could be true. But we also have a tendency to overlook the historic popularity...
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3 Million Engines And Counting: The Cummins-Ram Partnership 33 Years In The...
Three million engines is a very big number, and it’s even bigger now… Back in September of 2019 Cummins celebrated engine number 3,000,000—along with 30 years of producing diesel engines for Ram...
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Getting a Vehicle Back on the Road, Part 1: Fresh Rubber Helps Get Our...
When it comes to project cars, buying someone else’s abandoned, forgotten or incomplete project can be either the best or the worst thing you can do.In an ideal situation, a lot of the hard work will...
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The 5 Best Chevy V8 Engines Of All-Time
Chevrolet has sold some of the best-performing V8 engines to have ever left a factory. More than that, the company has produced millions of eight-cylinder motors, to the point where the enormous...
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Back to its Roots? The Off-Road Oriented 2023 Nissan Pathfinder Rock Creek...
There are few SUV nameplates in North America with a more up and down history than the Nissan Pathfinder. It launched as an SUV version of the Nissan Hardbody pickup in the 1980s, and continued on as...
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Classic Vette, Modern Muscle: Swapping a C7 Chassis Under Your 1953-1982...
The Chevrolet Corvette is one of the most famous sports cars in American history, and it's no surprise that this design icon has been a source of inspiration for hundreds of modern builders seeking to...
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