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Ford recalls thousands of 2018 F-150s due to shifting defect
Ford is recalling 2018 F-150 vehicles equipped with a 3.3-liter engine, a 6-speed transmission and a column mounted shift lever. Quickly moving the shift lever from ‘park’ to ‘drive’ may cause a loss of gear indication on the instrument cluster display and a momentary selection of an unintended gear, such as ‘reverse’ or ‘neutral’ before […]
November 22, 2017
Pickups
GMC unveils 2018 Sierra 2500 HD All Mountain concept
GMC announced today that its 2018 GMC Sierra 2500HD All Mountain concept, a one-of-a-kind snow-climbing machine, will debut this week at Vail Mountain. The Sierra All Mountain concept adds tank-like tracks that help it navigate rugged, snow-covered terrain. Built on a GMC Sierra 2500HD Denali 4WD Crew Cab platform, the epitome of GMC’s strength and design, […]
November 21, 2017
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Pickups
Revenge of the Nerds: Musk having fun with pickup design
Elon Musk is an interesting guy. Never a dull moment. And he likes to laugh—keep that in mind. Have you ever looked at who he follows on Twitter? It’s not many. Though he’s got 15.1 million followers, he only follows 47. The cartoons “South Park” and “Rick and Morty” are among those that have earned […]
November 20, 2017
Class 7-8
Searching for Tesla’s place in trucking from behind the wheel of a Model S
If there was a polar opposite of a tractor trailer, Tesla‘s Model S just might be it. The sporty sedan is limited to whatever cargo capacity five people can wedge into its front storage compartment – the “frunk” – and the traditional rear trunk compartment. But, as I made my way to Los Angeles this […]
November 20, 2017
Pickups
GM’s hybrid option goes nationwide for 2018 Chevy Silverado
Roughly two years after GM rolled out its mild hybrid pickups exclusively for the Southern California market, the automaker is now offering the fuel-saving option nationwide for model year 2018 Chevy Silverado. GM reports that eAssist’s lithium-battery based technology, borrowed from the Chevrolet Volt and Malibu Hybrid, achieves up to 13 percent greater city fuel […]
November 19, 2017
Pickups
Ford recalling thousands of 2018 F-150 trucks over concern with column shifter
Ford is recalling some 2018 F-150 vehicles equipped with a 3.3-liter engine, a 6-speed transmission and a column mounted shift lever. Quickly moving the shift lever from ‘park’ to ‘drive’ may cause a loss of gear indication on the instrument cluster display and a momentary selection of an unintended gear, such as ‘reverse’ or ‘neutral’ […]
November 19, 2017
Class 7-8
Tesla unveils electric semi: 500 mile range, ‘racecar’ cab, and ‘impossible to jackknife’
With a style more fitting of Star Wars than Smokey and the Bandit, Tesla’s electric semi made its twice-delayed debut Thursday in Hawthorne, Calif., the home Tesla Motors’ design center and company founder Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket factory. Promising a range of up to 500 miles at maximum weight and highway speed, the company says the Tesla […]
November 17, 2017
Pickups
SEMA 2017 brings out the best tricked out trucks, automotive artistry
Another SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) has come and gone, October 30 to November 3, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. SEMA is an association of the manufacturers of aftermarket car and truck parts and their annual show has become an amazing demonstration of the creativity and skills of America’s automotive artists and craftsmen. And […]
November 17, 2017
Roadbuilding
Time-lapse condenses four years of construction on N.Y.’s new Cuomo Bridge
The time-lapse video below shows the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge taking shape. The video covers four years of construction and the opening of the first span to traffic in August. The new bridge is a state-of-the-art, twin-span replacement for the 3.1-mile Tappan Zee Bridge that spans the Hudson River connecting Westchester and Rockland counties. […]
November 17, 2017
Roadbuilding
Iowa gas-tax hike increases local road, bridge projects
Iowa’s 10-cent gas-tax increase, enacted in March 2015, has brought in an additional $515 million for road and bridge projects, the Quad City Times reports. The additional revenue has been coming to cities and counties and must be used for critical road and bridge projects. The state has also used about half of the money […]
November 17, 2017
Pickups
2018 F-150 wins Kelley Blue Book pickup truck Best Buy Award
Kelley Blue Book announced today that the 2018 Ford F-150 has won its 2018 pickup truck Best Buy Award. “For four years straight, the Ford F-150 has taken the pickup truck honors in our Best Buys competition,” KBB states in its press release. “And, for four years straight, nobody else has come close to toppling […]
November 16, 2017
Pickups
Shell, Tommy Pike team up on lifted Chevy 3500 dually, Ram Rebel builds to boast multi-vehicle T6 oil capabilities
Custom car and truck builders get all kinds of unusual requests. When Shell Lubricants came to Tommy Pike Customs for some ideas to promote its new Rotella T6 Multi-Vehicle lube oil, the answer was clear. Since the T6 oil was formulated to work in gasoline engines as well as diesel engines, the choice was to […]
November 16, 2017
Pickups
Chevy unveils 2018 Silverado High Performance, a Corvette-inspired sport truck
Last week’s SEMA Show in Las Vegas was a buffet of custom vehicles and concepts and Chevrolet added the Silverado Performance Concept to the menu. An exploration of the performance capability of Chevy’s light-duty pickup, this 2018 Silverado features an intercooled supercharger system that is based on the one used by the LT4 engine offered in […]
November 15, 2017
Pickups
PHOTOS: The showstopping custom vintage trucks of SEMA 2017
Over the last several years we’ve seen pickups slowly take over more and more floor space at the annual SEMA show in Las Vegas. And this year it felt like we saw more vintage trucks than in years past. In the gallery below I’ve collected my favorite classic truck builds from SEMA 2017. If you […]
November 15, 2017
Pickups
Michelin disqualifies Chinese participants for design theft in Light Truck Global Design Competition
Michelin announced that it disqualified two Chinese entrants from its prestigious Light Truck Global Design Competition after it was learned that the men had submitted someone else’s work. Li Pengliang and Sun Hongyang had been named in a Michelin press release last week as finalists for a design they submitted called ‘Oasis.’ Turns out, however, […]
November 14, 2017
Vocational
The Duke is a ’72 Chevy C50 transformed into one bad work pickup
As I walked across the central show floor at SEMA earlier this month, I heard something from behind that made me turn around as I stepped into the Chevrolet booth. “F***ing awesome,” said a random guy out of my line of sight. The phrase was said at a volume that indicated not so much someone […]
November 14, 2017
Pickups
Chevy Truck’s 100 year evolution of torque
One-hundred years ago, Chevy’s 1918 One-Ton truck came equipped with a 2.8-liter engine that offered 45 lb. ft. of torque. Roughly 85 million pickups later, Chevy, like its competitors, is offering much more torque in its trucks. To help appreciate the evolution in the twisting force that makes hauling and towing possible, Chevy offered up […]
November 13, 2017
Pickups
This 1951 Ford F1 stole the thunder of every modern F-Series truck at Ford’s SEMA booth
Ford always brings a lot of trucks to SEMA. Each year the automaker tasks a bevy of amazing custom builders from across the country with taking F-150s, 250s and 350s and transforming them into trucks made for off-roading, racing, law enforcement and more. This year’s show was no different, and the 600-horsepower 2018 F-150 RTR […]
November 13, 2017
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