Are you running out of gift ideas as the holiday season nears its end? Here’s something you can stuff into a large stocking: It’s called the Titan Exhaust Air Jack, and it uses exhaust gas to lift your vehicle. All you do is place the inflatable bladder under your car/truck, connect the hose to the […] More »

Ah, the Lightning. Ford’s sport truck. I mean, we have the Tremor now, but that’s hardly what I’d call a sports truck. It can handle itself pretty well with a tune, sure, but I don’t think it’ll be as easy to wring big power out of the Ecoboost as it was with the Lightning’s V8. […] More »

How fun would it be to have your very own life-sized F-150 RC truck? Ask the folks at Ford Motor Company and they’ll probably tell you it’s a lot of fun. The truth is though, it’s more about what the engineers don’t do with the truck that matters. Before the advent of the remote-controlled F-150 […] More »

The Ford F-450 you are about to see is a beast of burden instrumental to its owner. Michael Ebert is an independent car transporter operating as TransWerks, L.L.C. Ebert uses his F-450 to haul almost 30,000 pounds between Colorado and Arizona on a route stretching 1,000 miles. He covers 2,500 to 3,300 miles per week, and […] More »

Eleventh Gen F-150 by mo12in

Oh no! The launch date for the 2015 Ford F-150 has been delayed by up to three months. Blame it on the aluminum. Rumored to lighten the 13th-gen F-150 by 700 pounds, aluminum body panels may make the next F-150 lighter, but the material is causing a heavy burden for Ford’s product planners. A report […] More »

Here’s a look at something that impacts our safety: trailer sway control. Vehicle stability control systems have come a long way, and now that they are on pickup trucks, they have the task of controlling trailer sway as well as vehicle stability while towing. How far can the truck’s stability control system go toward controlling […] More »