The Ford Explorer was still a twinkle in the recently introduced Ford Bronco II’s proverbial eyes when National Lampoon’s Vacation hit theaters in the summer of 1983. At the time, station wagons were the family vehicles of choice for Americans ...
MotorTrend has teamed up with Richard Childress Racing (RCR) and driver Tyler Reddick to be the lead sponsor on the team’s No. 8 Chevrolet ZL1 Camaro! Of course, that means that the car had to be appropriately wrapped in all ...
Earlier this week, we published our first test of the 702-hp Ram 1500 TRX, and let’s just say our corporate gas cards only just cooled off from our frantic swiping at local pumps. While our test focuses on the TRX’s ...
Remember the doors Ford showed off when the wraps came off the new 2021 Ford Bronco? Not tube doors, although those will probably be available, but “donut doors” that looked like traditional doors with a quadrangular hole in the center. These ...
Atlis CEO Mark Hanchett thinks big. When he set his mind on building the Atlis XT electric pickup truck, he wanted to solve the biggest problem first—namely getting 500 miles’ worth of electric charge into the truck at about the ...
It is widely considered that everything the Detroit automakers did during the Malaise Era of the 1970s and ’80s was uniformly terrible, but that isn’t really the case. True, many of the cars produced by the Big Four were pretty ...
Being a segment leader is hard work, especially in a segment as hot as subcompact SUVs, which continues to grow rapidly. Subaru already has a solid foundation to stay on top, and now, the Forester’s 2.5-liter flat-four engine is finding ...
Can a car get pudgy? That was the question I asked myself every time I saw our long-term 2020 Nissan Sentra languishing in my driveway. Without a commute to MotorTrend headquarters, for the time being, the Nissan had been making jaunts no ...
We expect Ford will introduce a Bronco Raptor at some point. But it probably won’t match the output of the new 2021 Hennessey VelociRaptor Bronco, which enters production next year. Hennessey dropped in a 5.0-liter Ford V-8 delivering 750 hp, allowing ...
MotorTrend Group visits Richard Childress Racing’s massive NASCAR museum to check out some cool history and some cooler cars! While we were at Richard Childress Racing (RCR) waiting to shoot a story in connection with MotorTrend’s new docuseries, NASCAR 2020: ...