Off-road vehicles like the Ford Bronco are designed to drive over things, but that poses a safety challenge in the city. Maximizing the front clearance angle requires a high, narrow bumper that could ...
“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t have roads,” might be what Doc Brown would’ve said if he was working on the General Motors and Lunar Outpost Lunar Terrain Vehicle pro...
The Ford F-150 Lightning is currently out of production and its future remains dark. The all-electric pickup was sidelined due in part to an aluminum shortage that forced Ford into assigning all of it...
Tesla is spinning something up for October 7. The automaker has posted a teaser video to social media that depicts a turbofan-style wheel spinning for a few seconds before the date 10/7 appears on the...
Campers will flip for this. Ford has filed for a patent on a device that turns a pickup truck into an RV. The “Shelter System Having Deployable Platform” is a bed-mounted system that flips...
General Motors may have finally found a practical use for the “Carolina Squat.” The automaker has received a patent for an idea that would allow pickup trucks to automatically drain water ...
The Chrysler Pacifica minivan is the brand’s only new model on sale today (along with the rebadged entry-level Voyager trim), but it was originally a crossover utility vehicle. The original 2004...
Is the next James Bond getting a Jeep? Stellantis has applied for a patent on a “Deployable Front License Plate Bracket” that looks like something from a spy car. The feature mounts the br...
Jeeps are great for getting wind in your hair, but can they run on it? That seems to be the point of several patent applications covering various versions of a “Wind Harness for a Vehicle”...









