If you had to pick two vehicles to play with in the back woods of Maine, which would you go with? Ok, let’s pull a Unimog off of the list. Now what would you go with? Odds are, most of you are thinking along the SVT Raptor lines, but if you were on the staff [...]

If you’ve been saving your milk money and patiently waiting for Ford to drop word on just how much its bad ass pick-up will cost, we’ve got news for you. The 5.4-liter V8-powered beast, complete with 13.4-inches of travel out back and 11.2 up front can be yours starting at $38,995. If you’re thinking that’s [...]

I. Ford may or may not be putting the 6.2-liter Boss V8 in the 2010 F-150 Harley Davidson Edition. Pics of the truck snapped at the Chicago Auto Show last week show a big black engine shroud proclaiming “BOSS 6.2.” Ford’s denying it’ll have any mill other than the standard 5.4-liter Triton, but we’d say [...]

Everybody’s talking about SVT this week, whether it’s Baja race trucks or our own Loverman’s erotic encounter with the production F-150 Raptor. Two months ago, however, we had a chance to leave the ground in a decidedly non-trucky SVT product — their “Red Dragon” GT500KR pre-production test car. Strap in and ride with me as [...]

Those crazy bastards. Once again they’ve braved grueling heat, blinding sand storms, armed locals and excessive tequila. The 40th running of the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 wrapped up last weekend with the kind of emotion you can’t hardly find anywhere else in racing. Anybody brave enough to try the race, let alone finish the Baja [...]

Little known fact: Steve Saleen loves trucks. Over dinner, at the launch of his Ford F150-based Saleen S331, he regaled us with stories from the shortlived SCCA sport truck racing series of the late eighties. Ford had put Mr. Saleen in charge of taking their compact Ranger trucks into battle with Nissan, Toyota , et [...]