Category Archive: XL Spotlight, XL Videos
Big Air Challenge Video From The SCORE Desert Challenge Is Right Here! Watch Trucks Fly!
This weekend’s SCORE Desert Challenge in Imperial California is THE place to be if you want to see the best in desert off road racing. But, if you couldn’t be there Thursday night for the...
Watch As This Truck Tug-Of-War Goes Bad: Flames And Parts Scattered!
This didn’t go to plan, I’m sure. In this clip from BustedKnuckleVideo, this blue Chevy 4×4 hooked up to a K5 Blazer in a “grudge pull” event and went absolutely for...
Watch Freiburger, Rick Pewe, and Fred Williams Bring A 1950 Jeep Back To Life In Pewe’s Driveway – Cool Thrash
We have highlighted several of the cool Dirt Every Day episodes from the MotorTrend Youtube channel over the years and they have all had Fred Williams in them doing various stuff. From converting...
B.J. Baldwin And Hoonigan Release “Recoil 2” Video: Flying A Truck In Ensenada, Mexico
Hoonigan and Monster Energy have been great about releasing racing videos that borderline on pure automotive porn for years. For rally racing, they have Ken Block’s Gymkhana series. Mike Ryan...
Off-Roading Greatness: The Upper Damnation Trail In Harlan, Kentucky
Summer is starting to slip away to Fall, and it’s a great time to go out to the woods. But what is there to do in the woods? For starters, there’s off-roading. Temperatures are cooler,...
Watch As This Mudder Explorer Goes For Broke At Michigan Mud Jam!
Mudding requires three things in order to not sink up to the door handles: traction, power, and wheel speed. Put mildly, this monster Explorer Sport has them all. The engine is making some very...
Listen To One Of The World’s Largest Diesel Engines Start Up And Run
When your diesel engine has several staircases attached to it so that all areas of the engine can be accessed, you have a huge engine and this one was at one time the world’s largest, from...
Drag Week 2014 Roadside Find: Muffler Car! This (Was) A Running And Driving Promo Vehicle
One of my favorite parts about Drag Week is the fact that competitors have to drive on a predetermined route to the next track. On the route they have to pay attention, wear seat belts, and stop at...
Watch As This Toyota Land Cruiser Takes A Lesiurely Swim In An Australian River
The standard rule of thumb when it comes to crossing a river in a car of any type is: DON’T. Ask anyone in Phoenix right now who had the misfortune of learning the hard way this week. But...
It’s Ba-a-a-a-ack! The Hot Rodded Volvo Tractor Is Back, With A Video To Show Ken Block How It’s Really Done
When we first saw footage of this Volvo BM Terrier tractor ripping donuts in the countryside a couple of years ago, we went nuts. Just the fact that someone stuffed a built Volvo turbo motor that, by...
Carnage Video: Watch As This Cummins Dodge Runs Away On The Dyno
Excepting very, very few circumstances, a runaway situation is pretty much a death sentence for a diesel engine. Once the oil starts lighting up in the cylinders it takes air starvation to shut the...
Someone Actually Built A Hot Rod Manure Spreader – Fling Cow Dung As You Have Never Flung Before
When Tammy Thomas sent us a link to look at a 1949 Oliver manure spreader hot rod, we were a little leery to click it. Something like that sounded like a total spam situation and we didn’t want...
Foam Party! Just Don’t Mind The Helicopters On The Floor…
When there is something leaking from the hangar bay doors where your multi-million aircraft are stored, it’s always a bad thing. Always. In the case of the Oklahoma National Guard, their bad...
More Mini-Mod Wreckage – Watch This Tractor Get Plowed Over By The Sled It Is Pulling
Yesterday we showed you a video of a mini-rod tractor getting out of shape and the sled kind of taking over the action and steam rolling the poor machine (along with the driver in it) so that...