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Engine Building Zen Video: Watching This 500hp, 12.7L Detroit Diesel Come Together Is Awesome
There are engine building videos that strike us as cool because of how they are shot, maybe some creative angle about the content, or a gimmick that we love. This is a totally different deal. This...
2020 Toyota TRD Pro: Long In The Tooth, But Not Much Else
The 2020 Toyota TRD Pro is the latest in a long, long line of Toyota pickup trucks based on a platform that was introduced in 2005 and has been little changed since then. This off-road themed and...
Configutator Battle: Which Half-Ton Work Truck Is The Best Bang For Your Buck? We Check Them Out
(By Tom Lohnes) – The American Truck: Hauling loads and doing work for more than 100 years. In the year 2020 however trucks are used as comfortable commuters and daily drivers, often...
The Only Trike We Like: This 1942 Harley-Davidson Servi-Car Is Absolutely Awesome
During times of upheaval, businesses that get creative succeed and those that don’t tend to fail. The Great Depression of the 1930s was one of the great provers of this statement and for the...
Don’t Like Getting Shot At? The New Armored 2020 Lincoln Navigator L Built by INKAS Is Your Solution!
(By Tom Lohnes) – If you want to haul your five kids around and still have enough room in the back for their bikes an extended-wheelbase full-size, truck-based SUV is basically your only...
The 1983 Chevy Blazer Was The Right SUV For The Time And They Sold Like It!
Automotive history is an interesting thing because so often we focus on the failures more than the successes. It’s actually more interested to dissect something that did not work than to go...
Breaking: All United States Domestic Auto Makers To Close Plants – Manufacturing Grinds To Screeching Halt Due To Virus Spread Concens
In news that points to just how deeply the Coronavirus has disrupted life in America, all of the domestic auto manufacturing plants in the country have been closed. Ford, Chrysler, and General...
Beware The Van, Man: Chevy Will Offer 401hp 6.6L V8 In 2021 Express – Yes, Factory Stock 400hp Vans Are A Thing Now
(Words and photos by Tom Lohnes) – The Chevy van has been a staple of the company lineup since 1961. The original unit was a rear-engine, flat-six powered van based off of the Corvair chassis....
Your Personal Clydesdale: The 2020 Ford F-250 Power Stroke Is One Heck Of A Worker, But Do You Need This Much Horse?
The American pickup truck is a tool, an icon, a status symbol, a rolling office, a piece of rolling entertainment, a money maker, and about three hundred other things if you wanted to list them all....
2020 Lone Star Throwdown Photo Coverage: The Miles and Miles Of Cool Trucks Just Won’t Stop Coming!
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – Texans proved once again that trucks, even really nice show trucks are about the hottest thing going in the hot rodding world today. In this collection of photos we...
Go Time: Tell Congress to Pass the RPM Act and Save Our Racecars! – DO IT HERE, IT TAKES 30 SECONDS
The RPM Act is in front of Congress as we speak and we need your help to make sure that this act is passed and the ability we have to hot rod our cars lives. This is a vitally important protection...
Big Aftermarket Industry News: Race Winning Brands Acquires Manley Performance
The industry-wide trend of brands consolidating under ever-larger roofs continues! This time it is Manley Performance being acquired by Race Winning Brands. If you are not familiar with Race Winning...
The Huracan Sterrato Is The Most Oddly Interesting Lamborghini Ever Built – 200 Car Production Run Already Sold Out
(Words by Tom Lohnes – Photos by the manufacturer) – You’d probably never think that the same company that made the record-setting Aventador SVJ, the car that shattered the Nurburgring...
