Showing posts with label trucks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trucks. Show all posts

A Brief History Of The Muscle Truck

Muscle trucks are one of life’s gloriously pointless indulgences. They make absolutely no sense in any traditional regard. If you wanted functionality and utility, you’d get a pickup truck. If you wanted to drag race off stop lights and burn rubber like it was going out of style, you’d get a muscle car. Why would you want both in the same vehicle if it

New History Of The Muscle Truck, Part II: The 90′s

At the same time the big-block Chevy 454SS was being developed, in another division of GM, engineers were cooking up a performance truck with an entirely different recipe, a truck that lives on in legends and myths today: the GMC Syclone. First, a minor point: yes, Syclone is spelled wrong. Mercury (remember them?) held the trademark for the Cyclone

A Brief History Of The Muscle Truck

When the new-generation F-150 debuted for 2004, Ford showed a 3rd generation Lightning concept with it. It featured serious power and some really neat technology, but sadly never went into production. The 3rd Gen Lightning Concept’s engine was still a 5.4L Triton Modular V8, but this time with the block cast in aluminum, and twin-cam 4-valve heads replacing the single-cam 2

trucks terbaik tahun 2008

2008 Mercedes-Benz GL Class Last year, the Mercedes GL450 emerged as the most desirable luxo ute in a very desirable field. Facing an equally strong challenge for 2008, Mercedes responded by expanding the GL-class from a class of one to a family of three. For those who seek thrift and torque, there’s the GL320 CDI turbo-diesel, an impressive powerplant that’s currently creating