Baja 1000 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro Revealed: to Compete in Full Size Stock Class
6 Aug 2014, 12:28 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Toyota Tundra is a great light truck that's very popular with younger buyers. Recently, it got a little bit better, thanks to the introduction of TRD performance parts that add curb appeal ...
2015 Ford Falcon Ute Spotted Without Camouflage
31 Jul 2014, 10:13 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Slated to be officially revealed in Australia and New Zealand at the end of the current year, the 2015 Ford Falcon Ute has been spotted in a parking lot without any camo whatsoever. Compared to the ...
2015 Ford F-150 Pricing Starts at $26,615
28 Jul 2014, 16:08 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / With the Dearborn truck plant a month away from retooling to start production of the 2015 Ford F-150, the all-new pickup truck now has a sticker price. Naturally, that 95 percent aluminum alloy body...
Ford Wages Legal War Against Ram Truck's Best-in-Class Towing Claims
28 Jul 2014, 08:40 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Less than two weeks ago, Ram Truck announced the SAE J2807 towing capacities for its 2015 light-duty and heavy-duty pickup lineup. Now, after Ford came clean with what the 2015 model year F-Series i...
2015 Ford F-150 Specs: 4 Engines, 8,500-lbs Towing Capacity · Video
22 Jul 2014, 17:10 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / You've been waiting long enough, so here's what you've been expecting to hear - the 2015 Ford F-150 comes with two new V6 engines and a 4,942-lbs (2,241 kgs) curb weight, translating ...
2015 Ford F-150 Aluminum Bed Intrigues Potential Buyers
22 Jul 2014, 09:15 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Global research company UBS has made a study about what potential buyers think about the 2015 Ford F-150's aluminum construction. After sampling 800 truck drivers, more than half of them declar...
2015 GMC Canyon Shows that Size Matters
22 Jul 2014, 01:05 UTC · By: Jeffrey Ross / Like just about every other vehicle segment, pickup trucks have grown to epic proportions, and General Motors is counting on its new mid-size trucks to appeal to size-conscious vehicle buyers. After...
Power Stroke vs Cummins: 2015 Ford F-450 Super Duty and Ram 3500 in Diesel Battle
17 Jul 2014, 12:55 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Last week, Chrysler stole Ford’s drag strip crown, with its Lucifer-worthy 2015 Challenger SRT Hellcat pulling an 11.2s quarter mile run and thus outpacing the otherwise supercharismatic Musta...
2015 Ford Super Duty F-450 Boasts 31,200 Pounds Towing Capacity
17 Jul 2014, 08:35 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Just the other day Chrysler announced that the Ram 3500 with the 6.7-liter Cummins diesel can tow a best-in-class 30,000 lbs using the SAE J2807 testing protocol. However, the mid-cycle refresh of t...
2015 Ram SAE J2807 Towing Capacities Announced
16 Jul 2014, 17:14 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / If you didn't know yet, the Society of Automotive Engineers is here to make sure that truck manufacturers rate their pickup lineups correctly for maximum towing capacity. The standardized SAE J...
2015 Ford Ranger Interior Spied
3 Jul 2014, 09:14 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / We've last seen the facelifted Ford Ranger while engineers were testing the pickup truck somewhere in Eastern Europe in XLT Double Cab guise. But that was then and this is now so here's th...
Dodge Ram 1500 Investigated Over Drivetrain Failure
30 Jun 2014, 18:23 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / This just in from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - following multiple complaints from frustrated owners, the agency started investigating the 2005 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck ove...
5.4L Triton V8-Powered Fords Called Over Idling Issue
27 Jun 2014, 08:55 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / It's a widely known fact that the 330 CID (5.4-liter) version of the Triton V8 wasn't a praised engine because… reasons. Too many reasons, to be frank. Just recently Ford announced ...
Next-Gen Ford Super Duty to Adopt Aluminum Too
26 Jun 2014, 13:51 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / During the Detroit Auto Show in January, Alan Mulally hinted in a cryptic manner that the 2015 Ford F-150 pickup's part-aluminum construction will be adopted by upcoming mass-produced models be...
Ford F-150 Recalled Over Power Steering Glitch
26 Jun 2014, 09:51 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / If you thought that GM is the only American carmaker suffering greatly due to its 20 million vehicles recalled this year, think again. Some Chrysler models experience problems with the Pentastar V6,...
Power Wheels Ford F-150 Will Make You Want to Be a Kid Again
25 Jun 2014, 14:14 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / When Ford dropped the first official photos and specs of the 2015 Ford F-150, we’ve been completely won over by the latest reiteration of America’s favorite pickup truck. However, we rec...
2015 GMC Sierra Denali Gets Magnetic Ride Control
23 Jun 2014, 17:01 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Yup, you heard that right - General Motors decided to enhance both comfort and driving dynamics on the 2015 GMC Sierra Denali by fitting electronically controlled dampers, a segment-first on a full-...
Ford Ranger Facelift Sheds Some Camo
20 Jun 2014, 12:02 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / While the Blue Oval is hard at work testing a seven-seater SUV which will bear the Everest nameplate, its platform brother hasn't been forgotten. Our spy photographers managed to snap a few pic...
2015 Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra Light-Duty Trucks Can Tow 12,000-lbs
19 Jun 2014, 14:37 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / According to the all-new SAE J2807 towing capacity standard, the all-new Chevy Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 can tow up to 12,000-lbs. That's 500-pound over the 2014 model year versions of...
SUV Hits Trailer Ramp, Goes Airborne in Crazy Kansas Crash
19 Jun 2014, 12:37 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We all know that strange feeling you get when you’re driving along at speed and you see a trailer ramped sitting on the side of the road. Some people describe this as an urge to climb it, whil...