Tag: off-road
Test drive: 2014 Toyota Tundra CrewMax 4×4 1794 Edition
For 2014 the Toyota Tundra was redesigned inside and out. The exterior shed its bubbly conservative look for a more chiseled and masculine theme with harder edges and sharper creases. The grill is bold and tall wit...
Test Drive: 2021 RAM 1500 TRX
When the 2021 RAM 1500 TRX made it to production we were surprised. Its concept precursor was show in 2016 and it seemed to good to be true, a monster 4x4 off-road toy with the 702 horsepower Hellcat engine. Who w...
Off-Road Test: 2022 Ford Bronco Raptor
The long awaited modern-day Ford Bronco has been a hit. So what could make it better? Make it faster, better off-road, and look more bad-ass. That's the Ford Bronco Raptor. Like the first F-150 Raptor from a de...
First Look: 2019 Toyota TRD Pro Tacoma, Tundra and 4Runner
At the Chicago Auto Show, Toyota's big news was a collection of updates for their 2019 TRD Pro Tacoma, Tundra and 4Runner to jack them up just a little higher on the scales of off-road buyers. The TRD Pro variants ...
First Drive Review: 2016 Toyota Tacoma
For the last several years Toyota has been happily selling their Tacoma pickups to a loyal group of buyers, but the market got hotter this year with the new GM mid-size trucks in the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon....
Test Drive Review: 2015 Jeep Patriot 4×4
The 2015 Jeep Patriot remains a strong seller in spite of its age, outselling the new Jeep Renegade by a significant margin, so we test drive it to see why that is. As I said at the outset, the Jeep Patriot has bee...
Test driven: 2013 Toyota 4Runner Limited 4×4
The 2013 Toyota 4Runner stands tall as one of the last truck-based SUV's available in the mid-sized segment at any price. It still has a solid axle, heavy duty suspension and a true off-road capability. So the firs...
2023 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2: Deep Dive
The 2023 Chevrolet Colorado is all-new for 2023, improved in all ways from styling, to capability, to technologies as well as its capabilities on and off-road. And as expected, the ZR2 comes along with it, better ...
Quick Drive: 2015 Nissan Frontier Pro-4X
In our test drives I recently spent some time in the 2015 Nissan Frontier top dog off-road model, the Pro-4X. And while you might ask why test a truck so old in the market, and I did too. But it was there so I did...
Reality Check: 2016 Chevrolet Tahoe PPV Off-Road
In our Reality Check, the Ford Explorer Police Interceptor dominates the highways, but the Chevrolet Tahoe PPV is offering up something new to earn its own badge off-road. The 2016 Chevrolet Tahoe PPV is now availa...
