It takes some guts to go out on a monster truck track with a tony, plain-looking Ford Explorer with a line of massive, beast-like trucks watching from the side and contemplating squishing you into the dirt. It takes guts to do that, but it takes an amazing sense of humor to do it with inflatable [...] More »

We just covered why the Transit will be making automotive history with the largest side-curtain airbag in the industry. Now, we look at another innovation needed for the Transit and probably one you didn’t think of; how to transport it. When the Transit is transported by train, a normal rail car for transporting automobiles won’t [...] More »

Dumb and Dumber To, the Farrelly Brother’s sequel starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels arrives in theaters this fall, but in the meantime we have a few dumb stories of our own to share. After a staffer caught a Super Duty backing into an Airbus A320 on a Seattle tarmac, we asked Ford Truck Enthusiasts [...] More »

The new Transit van is a bit on the big side, so when it comes to safety it also has to go big lengths. We’re talking literal as Ford has introduced the world’s only five-row side-curtain airbag. It is part of the Ford Safety Canopy System for side-impacts and rollover crashes and we’ll take a [...] More »

Most people connect with family during awkward reunions, obscure weddings, and smiling Christmas cards. However, dusterbd13 is not most people. Rather than tolerating his niece or avoiding communication with the younger generation, he decided that they would get his fifteen-year-old niece — Bree — her first truck: a glorious 1977 Ford F-150. Equipped with a fresh [...] More »

In the ever growing battle of the “Greens” versus the rest of us, Madrid, Spain has decided to institute parking meters that will charge you depending on what type of vehicle you drive. In this case, if you drive a gross polluter or a diesel, you will pay more to park versus the guy in [...] More »

One of the most fun projects I worked on at Ford was the E4OD/4R100 transmission for the off road racing community. We built transmissions for a Class 8 truck, which later became a Trophy Truck. They ran in SCORE and BITD events. The transmissions we sent were not THAT far from stock, but they did [...] More »