Black Fridays: 2g CTD Ram smokes out the dyno shop

Watching a Cummins Turbo Diesel powered Dodge Ram turn the sky black with thick diesel soot is awesome but the effects are magnified when one of these trucks puts on a smoke show indoors. In this week’s Black Friday feature video, we see a 1997 Ram 2500 being tested on a Dynojet dyno and in ...

How to Wreck a McLaren MP4-12C Spider into a Storage Unit

Some guy driving in the goldRush rally who had already made a bit of a name for himself by calling a Koenigsegg Agera R a ‘Hunk Of Shit’ managed to wreck what looks like a rented McLaren MP4-12C Spider into a storage unit. “According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, Hsinho Chen, of Massachusetts, was driving [...]

Hold My Beer Fridays: Ultimate Mock F-150 Commercial

The names Jeffries Thaiss and Darrin Fitzgerald may not mean much to you now, but they’ll mean even less to you after this weeks HMBF entry where we get to enjoy their spoof of the ...

All-Motor C6 Z06 goes 201 MPH At The Texas Mile: No Nitrous, No Forced Induction!

Few things in the car world are as cool as a high horsepower naturally-aspirated combo. Sure power adders are cool, but there’s something to be said for using nothing more than stoich and a highly tuned combo to make big power. Kinda like Bobby Weige’s C6 Z06 that ran 201.4 MPH at the Texas mile, [...]

A Conversation with Warren Mosler

Warren Mosler has been a huge innovator when it comes to composite-bodied vehicles. Motor Trend recently sat down with him to discuss how he got into the car business and where he is going. There is some great footage of some of his collection and special insights in the development of his legendary MT900. This is a [...]

The Dodge Dakota is dead – again

We’ve got some bad news for those Dodge lovers looking forward to the next generation Dakota midsized pickup slated for 2016. According to Dodge brand CEO and President Reid Bigland, the new Dodge Dakota project has been cancelled. It should be noted that Mr. Bigland is the boss at Dodge and his comments about the ...

Do You Really Need a Ram Truck?

Ram trucks are great for getting in and out of tough spots. But what did people drive in slop when Ram trucks didn’t yet exist? Work wasn’t going to do itself– so even back then, people relied on Dodge equipment to carry them through the messiest, muddiest terrains there were. Who knows how a vehicle ...