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The Monster Truck Rally Nobody Voted For: How American Roads Got This Way Drive through any American city, suburb, or small town today and the scene is the same: a rolling landscape of towering hoods, chrome grilles the size of refrigerator doors, and pickup beds that rarely carry anything heavier

A Desert Title Decided by Inches, Luck and a Wrench Phil Blurton did not have a clean week in Laughlin, Nevada. He did not have a clean day, either. By his own account, the final race of the inaugural American Off-Road Racing Championship season was "probably my most stressful day racing out here"

The Number on the Speedometer Was Never the Point Ask any man who has spent a Saturday morning on a back road what made the drive memorable, and the answer rarely involves a top speed. It involves a corner taken cleanly, a downshift that landed perfectly, a stretch of pavement where everything els

Why Mods Rarely Pay You Back Image credit: Flux.1 Modifying a car is personal, and that's exactly why it rarely helps at resale. A modification that

Kumho Tire U.S.A. Wraps Its Most Dominant Off-Road Racing Season Yet When Kumho Tire U.S.A. made its return to competitive off-road racing at the start of 2026, the question hanging in the air was simple: could a tire brand better known in the U.S. for its passenger and light truck lineup actually

Most Trail Damage Is Self-Inflicted Image credit: Flux.1 Trucks rarely break on the trail because a trail is too hard. They break because of how the

Every Vehicle Has a Few Secrets Image credit: Flux.1 Automakers have spent the last decade turning dead space into storage, and most owners never fi

The Most Powerful Week in Truck Culture Is Back: What to Expect From the 2026 SEMA Show Every November, Las Vegas does something it almost never does — it takes a back seat. The neon and the noise, the poker tables and the spectacle, all of it gets quietly upstaged by something that arrives on fou

The 2027 Polaris XPEDITION Is Rewriting the Rules of What a Trail Machine Can Be There is a certain kind of off-roader who has always accepted noise as the price of admission. The scream of a CVT clutch winding up, the drone of high engine RPM on a long forest road, the wind howling through a half

Learn the Language Before You Sign Image credit: Flux.1 Most disputes at repair shops don't come from dishonest mechanics. They come from customers