Pickup Trucks

Think automotive aerodynamics and you'll either think of aerodynamic components for reducing lift or increasing downforce, or you'll think of streamlined, low-resistance vehicles like the 2011 Toyota Prius. Car designers have a tough job to combine these features in your typical road car - ideally...

If you were to set out to design a vehicle, you might not choose a frog as your source of inspiration. Sure, we've heard of the old Austin-Healey "Frogeye" Sprite from the 1960s, but that was more of an affectionate nickname due to a coincidental likeness than through any design inspiration. Tell...

For 60 years, the Unimog (Universal-Motor-Gerat), has been terrifying young children (and some grown men)--and Mercedes-Benz is proud of that feat. So proud, in fact, that the special trucks unit of the luxury automaker has presented a design study in celebration of 60 years of big, frightening...

If you're into tough little trucks with incongruously fancy touches, flick your browser over to Craiglist, to this restoration of a 1972 Datsun pickup. It's a project done by Atlanta's Heritage Motorsports, which says its mission "is to save as many classic cars and bikes as possible." Admirable...

If you're a dyed-in-the-wool Mopar lover, but have been a bit jealous of Ford's brilliant Raptor, you're no longer out in the cold: the Ram Runner package is now officially detailed and will be on sale soon. Chrysler even claims it's superior to the Raptor in terms of suspension. That's quite a...

There's almost no point--practical or otherwise--to having a high-performance street truck, but that doesn't make it any less fun. And this truck looks like serious fun. Sporting a 5.7-liter Hemi V-8 with a custom supercharger package sending 500 horsepower to the wheels, this truck is not for the...

Callaway is best known for tuning Corvettes, but that hasn't stopped the company from focusing on other niches. Like trucks. The Callaway Silverado is the first in a line of Callaway SportsTrucks, and the package offers more power and unique styling for Chevrolet Silverado owners. There are two...

We've already seen BMW's early April Fool's Day joke, and the but today the company made the not-so-surprising (or funny) official revelation. Despite the anti-climactic nature of the unveiling, we still want one. Like, now. Does it make sense? Of course not. It's a high-performance sport truck, or...

A couple of days ago the Interwebs broke out in song over a vehicle spotted at the Nurburgring: a pickup version of the BMW M3. Marrying the most fanciful of auto-journo oddball car dreams, the carryall sports car looked like a Munich miracle. Today, we have a new set of close-up shots of this...

Want a luxurious, well-equipped pickup that's more manageably sized than the mammoth F-150? We'd point you to this Ford Ranger Wildtrak just introduced at the Geneva Motor Show, but there's a major hitch: It's not going to be offered in the U.S. That said, if the price of gas rises, there might be...

At last month’s 2011 Detroit Auto Show Chrysler’s Mopar aftermarket accessories division rolled out a collection of toughened up vehicles built for the street as well as one very special off-roader. That off-roader was the Ram Runner pickup, essentially a Ram 1500 pickup with reinforced...

Ford's F-150 SVT Raptor is the undisputed king of production off-road truck awesomeness, but we’re sure--if ever built--a production version of the 2011 GMC Sierra All Terrain HD pickup truck concept could sure give it a run for its money. In live form the truck looks every bit as menacing...

Ford's Raptor is the undisputed king of production off-road truck awesomeness, but it may soon have a challenger, previewed here with the GMC Sierra All Terrain HD Concept. Bigger, diesel-powered, and suitably brutish, the All Terrain HD is at this point, "strictly a concept," however. According to...

As outlandish as the concept sounds, giving away free weapons actually does help bring in the customers. Well, that is the case for at least one truck dealership based in Sanford, Florida. The dealership’s latest promotion is for a free AK-47 assualt rifle with every used truck purchase...

It's rare that we find a pickup truck that pushes our enthusiast buttons, but today, we have exactly that. Our Executive Editor Marty Padgett is at the Ford F-150 EcoBoost launch today, and he captured this video of the truck proving that while it may be a V-6, it packs more punch than the frumpy...

Remember when Jesse James was awesome? When he and Sandra Bullock were like the couple everyone wanted at their holiday key party? Oh, how times change. Now, Jesse James is a philandering skank-magnet and alleged white supremacist, who's taken the really brave, really courageous step of blaming his...

A rebadged Holden Ute could come as the rebirth of the El Camino nameplate.

Since tomorrow will be a special CelebsAndCars entry, this is technically the last "regular" post of 2009. And although we could've easily gone with the million-dollar feud brewing among the trashy, splashy Teutel family, or the high-speed antics of the equally trashy but less splashy (as Playgirl...

The 2009 SEMA show is the site of the addition of some hot new offerings in the 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor lineup.

Ford North America is up $357 million for the third quarter of 2009.