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Popular Mechanics
September 2008
Mike Allen |
Your Guide to Upgrading Wheels & Tires: Saturday Mechanic Provide better grip for your car without compromising your vehicle's original engineering.   |
Popular Mechanics
August 24, 2009
John Pearley Huffman |
2010 Ford F-150 Raptor Test Drive: Is This Race-Bred 4WD Pickup the Most Capable Ford Truck Ever? The Raptor that's on sale now is good. The one that will be here in a few months promises to be great. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2007
Ben Stewart |
Top 5 New Pickup Trucks: Comparison Test Sometimes only a real, full-size truck will do the job. |
Popular Mechanics
September 19, 2008
Larry Webster |
Top 10 Weekend Wagons for $5000 on (Cheap!) Used SUV Market The plummeting prices of used mid-size SUVs may make it a good time to buy. Here are some less than $5000 that have off-road capability, interior volume, available engines, and, of course, that battle-hardened look. |
Popular Mechanics
October 23, 2009
Mark Williams |
2010 Dodge Ram HD 2500/3500 Test Drive: Heavy Hauling Diesel Power Though the 2010 Ram HD looks new from the outside, much of the big truck's foundation and powertrains remain the same. |
AskMen.com
July 4, 2003
Bob Plunkett |
Car Review: 2003 Dodge Ram Heavy-duty Ram trucks dominate the road with their forceful new exterior styling, and they also flex muscles from a new series of powerful engines designed to pull far more than their hefty weight and tow some class-topping loads. |
Car and Driver
April 2005
Ron Kiino |
Nissan Xterra Off-Road 4WD In a world of budding crossovers and soft-utes, Nissan sticks with its truck roots. The new Xterra has a formidable off-road resume, rugged looks to match, and its quicker to 60 than a Volkswagen Touareg V-8. |
Car and Driver
November 2004
Barry Winfield |
Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited 4WD 5.7L It's been a long time coming, but look at what Jeep has finally produced: a brand-new Grand Cherokee line with a choice of three engines (including a 5.7-liter V-8 Hemi). |
Popular Mechanics
November 24, 2009
John Pearley Huffman |
2010 Lexus GX 460 Test Drive Off-road, the GX 460 really works. The suspension is supple, and the ride is composed even when bounding over basketball-size ruts and football-size rocks. |
Popular Mechanics
October 17, 2008 |
2009 Full-Size Pickup Truck Comparison Test Drives: Exclusive It should be of no surprise that full-size pickups are feeling the heat downsizing. Yet the market for full-size pickups is still massive. |
Popular Mechanics
February 10, 2005
Allen St. John |
Driving Ugly How to climb 45-degree slopes, go desert drifting and gobble up boulders without (quite) flipping like a bug. Welcome to the weird new world of off-road, where the rides are fun enough for a regular guy, but meant for a soldier. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2004
Bob Freudenberg |
Curing Steering Wander What to check when you have steering issues with your car. |
AskMen.com
August 1, 2003
Bob Plunkett |
Car Review: 2003 Porsche Cayenne S What kind of vehicle, you may wonder, can run around a race track in lightning-fast time like a race-ready sports car but also slog through a mud pit or scramble over walls of boulders like a tough and rugged off-road wagon? |
Car and Driver
April 2005
Patrick Bedard |
Rock-Climbing SUVs, Size M Reviews of four-wheel drive vehicles: Ford Explorer XLT V-8, Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited 4WD 5.7L, Mitsubishi Montero Limited, Nissan Pathfinder SE Off-Road, Toyota 4Runner 4WD Sport Edition and the Volkswagen Touareg V-6. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2008
Mike Allen |
Why New Front Tires on Your Back Wheels Are a Good Idea When tire companies insist on moving your old tires to the front of your car and replacing your rear tires with new ones -- let them. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2006
Stewart et al. |
PM Automotive Excellence Awards 2007 2007 Automotive Excellence award recipients based on aspects such as design, versatility, performance, and more. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2006 |
Long-Term Test Cars Infiniti M35... Toyota Highlander Hybrid... Chevrolet Cobalt SS... Jeep Liberty Sport CRD... Subaru Outback... Porsche Cayenne S... |
Popular Mechanics
December 17, 2009
Mike Allen |
Mini Beachcomber Concept First Look: 2010 Detroit Auto Show With AWD, lots of ground clearance and suspension travel, and a flexible interior, it caters to active outdoors activities. |
Car and Driver
June 2004
John Phillips |
GMC Canyon SLE Crew Cab 4WD Z71 Maybe not one of the world's seven wonders, but certainly a grand Canyon. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2005
John Voelcker |
Top 10 Tech Cars From Toyota to Porsche, a host of hybrids... The Land Rover 'switch-hitter'... The 'super handling' Acura RL... A 'bullet-proof' Mercedes... Limited edition Ferrari Fetish... Michelin's concept cars... etc. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Mike Allen |
How to Install a Tire-Pressure Monitoring System When this warning lamp illuminates on your instrument panel, at least one of your tires is 25 percent below its correct pressure. |
Car and Driver
June 2006
Tony Quiroga |
Road Test Review: 2006 Chevrolet Impala SS Powerful impulses from a car with a split personality. |
Car and Driver
October 2004
Aaron Robinson |
Toyota Tacoma Double Cab SR5 4x4 V-6 The durable pickup is thoroughly reborn. Longer, wider, smoother, stronger, and a whole bunch of other "ers." |
Popular Mechanics
December 2007
Ben Stewart |
Ford, Dodge and GMC: Diesel Pickup Truck Tow Test (with Video) These rigs can tackle the dirtiest jobs while providing downright luxurious surroundings for up to six passengers: Dodge Ram 3500 Mega Cab, Ford F-350 King Ranch, and GMC Sierra 3500 Crew Cab. |
Car and Driver
June 2006
Tony Quiroga |
Upfront News: 2007 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited The world's only production four-door convertible. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2006
Ben Stewart |
Power Trip Seven days, 3000 miles, five skill-testing two-lane roads, A willing copilot and a 505-hp Corvette. The best places to test automobile performance. |
Car and Driver
September 2006
Aaron Robinson |
Road Test Review: 2007 Jeep Compass Limited 4X4 - Road Tests Less GI Joe than Joe Average. |
Car and Driver
October 2005
Csaba Csere |
Mazda MX-5 The prototypical entry-level sports car gets faster and better. |
AskMen.com
March 28, 2002 |
2002 Nissan Frontier vs. GMC Sierra 2500 Square off face-to-face against the latest iteration of Frontier, the made-in-America pickup by Nissan, and you'll stare down the snout of one big bruiser of a truck... |
Popular Mechanics
August 2003
Bob Freudenberger |
Fixing Suspension Clunks And Rattles While there's little chance that your car is going to lose something essential while you're going down the road, chassis and suspension noises definitely have to be checked out for safety's sake. Plus, who wants to drive a vehicle that sounds like it's about to drop to the pavement? |
Popular Mechanics
January 2010 |
Cheap Speed Showdown: 6 Sport Car Comparison Test The cognitive man-machine mashup isn't the exclusive domain of the six-figure sports car. There are plenty of inexpensive rides that deliver a hardcore mission -- with little fluff. |
Car and Driver
May 2006
Tony Quiroga |
Short Take Review: Porsche 911 Carrera 4S The only sacrifice is in the price. |
AskMen.com
September 26, 2003
Paul Anderson |
6 SUVs For Under $40K Though choice is good, it may be difficult to differentiate one sport ute from the other. Many cars offer similar looks, modern features, off-road control, and performance. Here's help for SUV buyers who want all these attributes in addition to originality and bang for their buck. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2005
Willie D. Jones |
Easy Ride Bose Corp. uses speaker technology to give cars adaptive suspension. |
Car and Driver
September 2003 |
Superfour Challenge Once again, we gather a group of souped-up cars for an annual thrashfest, but this year we give the little guys a chance. |
National Defense
February 2013
Valerie Insinna |
Marine Humvee Upgrade Seen as Inevitable The Marine Corps is deciding how to rejuvenate its war-weary Humvee fleet. Compromised performance -- caused by a decade of combat zone wear and tear and being overloaded by armor -- is prompting this action. |
Fast Company
February 13, 2012
Tania Karas |
Progress Report - Reinvent The Wheel Flat tires generate more than 3 million AAA calls each year, and blowouts can easily cause auto accidents. But what if tires didn't need air? |
Popular Mechanics
January 2007
Ben Stewart |
Compressor, Meet Winch: An Off-Road Utility That Does It All The Warn PowerPlant is like a 114-pound Swiss army knife mounted on the front of your truck. It has both a winch and air compressor in one unit. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2012
Lawrence Ulrich |
Top 10 Tech Cars 2012 The internal combustion engine strikes back |
Popular Mechanics
June 2009 |
Off-Road in Colorado: Taking a Rebuilt Land Cruiser from Durango to Boulder A summer road trip doesn't need pavement or even modern transportation. We tackle Colorado's dusty mountain trail in a rebuilt, restored and very rugged icon FJ40. |
Popular Mechanics
March 5, 2008
Chuck Tannert |
10 Road Rules to Drive Through Disaster and Save Your Life Expert skills you should master to improve your driving and your chances of avoiding a deadly crash. |
Car and Driver
July 2004 |
All-New BMW M5 BMW's 5 Series 10-cylinder M5 is the newest member of the 500hp club, featuring a road-going version of the BMW-Williams F1 Grand Prix power unit. |
Outside
May 2000 |
Biking In the following pages, Armstrong and his coach reveal the surprising fitness strategy that got Lance ready for last year's Tour---a plan that can put you at the head of the pack, too. After that, we celebrate the distinctive regional styles of bicycling in the U.S.A. |
Wired
March 24, 2008
John Voelcker |
The Latest Trend in Microcars Positions the Engine as Backseat Driver Auto manufacturers are shifting car engines to the back for their smaller vehicles. |
Car and Driver
November 2004
Brock Yates |
Ford Mustang The 2005 Ford Mustang is attracting a lot of attention. |
Car and Driver
November 2003
Barry Winfield |
Honda S2000 More flexible, better balanced, still demonic. There's a revised S2000 coming our way as a 2004 model, and it features a ton of improvements designed to neutralize the few criticisms we had about the old car. |
Outside
October 2001 |
Back to the Wild It's time to return sport utes to where they belong -- running free on dirt and gravel, snowpacked roads, and every other bumpy track beyond the pavement. After we beat, muddied, and filthified the eight rigs that follow, we see no reason to let them cart mere groceries again... |
Car and Driver
August 2006
Dave Vanderwerp |
Long-Term Test Review: Subaru Legacy 2.5GT Limited As it turns out, the biggest problem with our trouble-ridden Subaru was one of us. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2008 |
Twin Cars Save Detroit Cash, but What About You? Road Test A look at the results of testing pairs of vehicles built on three different chassis architectures - two from Ford and one from Nissan. |
National Defense
June 2013
Valerie Insinna |
Battelle to Upgrade Pickup Trucks for Special Operations The General Services Administration in April awarded Battelle a blanket purchase agreement to strip down commercial trucks and outfit them with armor and a stronger suspension. The company will also upgrade the vehicles' tires and communications systems. |
