4×4 and Auto News and Rumors – RPM
•Tread Lightly!’s Restoration for Recreation is awarding funding to twenty five stewardship projects (aka twenty five for 25), which will be about trail expansion, cleanup, campground improvements, recycling collection, trail repair, and more. Each project will be run by Tread Lightly! members or its playmates, such as enthusiast clubs and individuals. Learn more at treadlightly.org/projects.
•Might the rumored Mercedes-Benz/Nissan pickup be called Z-Class?
•GM has opened its Powertrain Spectacle and Racing Center, which will engineer and build race engines, as well as crate engines and crate powertrains.
•Utah Motorsports Campus has opened on the site of the former Miller Motorsports Park location for the two thousand sixteen racing season. Among the events will be the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series May 21-22.
•Some two thousand sixteen Dodge Durango models will have available Brass Monkey and Anodized Platinum appearance packages.
•Fuel delivery on request? The WeFuel app permits you to select a fuel and pay for it, and then a WeFuel delivery truck arrives in thirty minutes or less to pack up your equipment. Right now, it’s only for parts of the Bay Area.
•Fiat Chrysler is going to create fresh calibrations for its existing generation of diesel vehicles to make them even cleaner?
•Jeep Wrangler hybrid in addition to Jeep Wrangler diesel?
•Jeep is going to open satellite stores?
•Uber drivers will be providing the Bop It fucktoy to drunken passengers as the token shiny object so that they don’t annoy or get aggressive with their drivers?
•Ford has a pint-size SUV in the works?
•Ram will keep building its HD trucks in Mexico?
•The Environmental Protection Agency has written a proposal that would make it illegal to convert vehicles designed for on-road use into race vehicles. SEMA and other orgs are fighting this hard, as you can imagine.
•Planning on smoking in your car in Virginia while kids are on board? Expect a fine of $100 if a proposed bill passes.
What’s Happening in the Industry
•You know Line-X as the provider of spray-on coatings, but you may not know of its charitable efforts. It has been voted Best for Vets Franchise, and it also has donated $50,000 to UCLA Operation Mend, which provides medical treatment to veterans wounded in war.
•Monroe has turned one hundred years old.
•aFe has bought Sway-A-Way’s line of high-performance off-road racing shocks.
•GenRight 4×4 Night is happening each month in two thousand sixteen at various locations across the U.S. It’s a chance to dangle out with fellow wheelers and talk shop. Go to genright.com to learn about dates and locations near you.
•The modified Jeep Wrangler Omix-ADA donated to SEMA Cares went up for auction at Barrett-Jackson and fetched $100,000.
•Yamaha will become a three-year Official Presenting Sponsor of the Lucas Oil Regional Off Road Series, Arizona.
•T-Rex Truck Products has been in business now for twenty years.
•WD-40 wants to give you $Ten,000 for a photo or movie of things you already do. You see, it’s all part of the WD-40 Specialist Top Challenges Countdown. All you have to do is upload a pic or vid of how you use a WD-40 Specialist product to deal with a challenge. Products in the line include Machine & Engine Degreaser, Mess & Dust Resistant Dry Lubricant, and Water Resistant Silicone Lubricant. Go to wd40specialist.com/topchallenges.
If you read Four Wheeler magazine each month, you very likely already know we’ve been talking about the fact that we have our very own app. It’s kind of a big deal for us since not everyone has their own app. You should check out our app. We bring you tech, products, road tests, feature trucks, and geysers more at the drop of an app. Go to the iTunes app store.
2016 Chevy Silverado Realtree and GMC Sierra All Terrain X
The Chevy Silverado one thousand five hundred LTZ Z71 is getting a fresh edition in 2016: the Realtree. As you may have suspected, it’s a camo theme—exterior graphics, headrest logos, and other miscellaneous Realtree graphics. Other additions include blackout trim, off-road assist steps, and black 20-inch wheels.
Over at GMC, there’s the All Terrain X for the two thousand sixteen Sierra one thousand five hundred 4WD Squad Cab and shortbed SLT models. You’re looking at a special grille, Eaton locking rear diff, Z71 off-road suspension package, spray-on bedliner, inclinometer, and All Terrain logo’d instrument cluster.
Fresh Luxo two thousand sixteen Jeep Cherokee Overland
There’s a fresh fancy Jeep in town: the ’16 Cherokee Overland. Various niceties include body-color fascias and door cladding, polished aluminum wheels, leather-wrapped and power things inwards, a fresh steering wheel with wood trim, and Overland badging. It’ll have an MSRP of $34,495 when it arrives in the spring.
2017 Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro
In the fall of 2016, we get the fresh ’17 Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro, which will feature an enhanced TRD suspension and harass, 16-inch TRD black-alloy wheels, an aluminum front skidplate, and other familiar TRD musts, including Crawl Control, Multi-terrain Select, Hill Commence Assist Control, and Active Traction Control.
The Titan XD is getting a little bro—a 1/2-ton. It’s a different chassis (no collective components) but also will have the Five.6L Stamina V-8, worth three hundred ninety horses and four hundred one lb-ft of torque, and will be hooked to a seven-speed auto-trans. A V-6 is in the works. The Titan will have a 139.8-inch wheelbase (the XD’s is 151.6 inches), with an overall length of 228.1 versus 242.8 inches. Width and height are pretty much unchanged. Get it in Squad Cab, King Cab, and Single Cab, with five 1/Two, six 1/Two, and 8-foot-long beds, and with S, SV, PRO-4X, SL and Platinum Reserve trim levels. The 1/2-ton will be available in the summer of 2016.
2017 Ram Power Wagon, and the Fresh two thousand five hundred Off-Road Package
This looks like a bloated Rebel 1500, right? That was the plan when the ’17 Ram Power Wagon got a fresh design, borrowing the grille from the Rebel. Overall, the fresh model year brings the same old truck, other than a few appearance switches, such as that grille design, fresh 17-inch wheels, special lighting, tire-tread patterns inwards, and more color choices.
There’s also a fresh off-road package for the Ram two thousand five hundred squad cab and Mega Cab, which big front tow hooks, specially tuned Bilstein monotube shocks, larger fender flares, an enhanced suspension, a T-case skidplate, standard Hill Descent Control, and front and rear lockers, of course. It’ll be available later in 2016.
“Without creating extra capacity, in the United States, we need to . to attempt and deal with the development of both Jeep and the Ram brand.”—Sergio Marchionne, Fiat Chrysler CEO, according to the Detroit Free Press
4×4 and Auto News and Rumors
4×4 and Auto News and Rumors
•J.D. Power likes to do nerdy data things, like create vehicle rankings based on data retrieved. So, the two thousand seventeen Vehicle Dependability Study—the 28th year of the probe, FYI—sorted out reliability based on problems reported by owners of 3-year-old vehicles. Lexus brand came out on top, followed by Porsche and Toyota. Also making the top ten were Mercedes-Benz and Chevy. At the finish opposite end—we mean bottom, for clarity—was Jeep. Also in the bottom six were Ram and Ford.
•If you’ve been saving up for the all-new Class Four/Five commercial truck from Chevy, know that it’s been confirmed to have a Duramax mill and Allison trans. And will arrive in 2018.
•Duramax, deux: Chevy announced that the two millionth engine for its HD trucks has been built (a 6.6L V-8, as you’d likely expect).
•Audi has been named the sponsor of the D.C. United soccer stadium, and with that comes the name Audi Field. Audi still seems to believe in soccer in the U.S.; it’s been the automotive sponsor of Major League Soccer since 2015.
•Shelby Hall is an off-road racer and took Third Place in the ’17 Mint 400, her very first driver-of-record race. She’s third-gen: her grandpop is Rod Hall, and you also know of her father and uncle, Josh and Chad, respectively.
•It shows up to be a big deal that the ’17 Ram Laramie Longhorn has a fresh color: RV Match Walnut Brown. The fresh two-toner kicked the current two-toner White Gold to the curb. If you’re thinking the “RV Match” part very likely means it matches the accent color of fifth wheels and such, then you’re thinking.
•Omnicraft is a fresh brand from Ford Customer Service Division that’ll suggest replacement parts for non-Ford vehicles, permitting dealerships to service all vehicle makes.
•Consumer Reports ranked luxury brands and the big news isn’t that Audi came in very first for the 2nd year. It’s that Kia came in sixth.
•Thanks for the perky news, National Safety Council, with your fatality estimates from 2016. That would be 40,200 fatalities, up six percent from 2015. Plus, it’s been since two thousand seven that annual fatalities were more than 40,000.
•Vincentric sorted out the two thousand seventeen Best Values in America so that you don’t have to. This list was narrowed down by cost of ownership, i.e. depreciation, insurance, fuel, and so on. For the brand awards, Toyota took the win for the SUV category, while Ford scored the truck title. When it came to the SUVs, the best were the Toyota 4Runner and Land Cruiser (for intermediate and large SUV categories), while winners in pickups were the Tacoma and Tundra for petite and fullsize 1/2-ton, the Chevy Silverado two thousand five hundred for ¾-ton, and the Ford F-350 for 1-ton.
•This item is not about that particular Ford. Nope, it’s regarding the ’18 Expedition. It’ll be able to stream live TV, movies, music, and other streamy things.
4×4 and Auto News and Rumors
4×4 and Auto News and Rumors
•J.D. Power likes to do nerdy data things, like create vehicle rankings based on data retrieved. So, the two thousand seventeen Vehicle Dependability Study—the 28th year of the explore, FYI—sorted out reliability based on problems reported by owners of 3-year-old vehicles. Lexus brand came out on top, followed by Porsche and Toyota. Also making the top ten were Mercedes-Benz and Chevy. At the finish opposite end—we mean bottom, for clarity—was Jeep. Also in the bottom six were Ram and Ford.
•If you’ve been saving up for the all-new Class Four/Five commercial truck from Chevy, know that it’s been confirmed to have a Duramax mill and Allison trans. And will arrive in 2018.
•Duramax, deux: Chevy announced that the two millionth engine for its HD trucks has been built (a 6.6L V-8, as you’d likely expect).
•Audi has been named the sponsor of the D.C. United soccer stadium, and with that comes the name Audi Field. Audi still seems to believe in soccer in the U.S.; it’s been the automotive sponsor of Major League Soccer since 2015.
•Shelby Hall is an off-road racer and took Third Place in the ’17 Mint 400, her very first driver-of-record race. She’s third-gen: her grandpop is Rod Hall, and you also know of her father and uncle, Josh and Chad, respectively.
•It emerges to be a big deal that the ’17 Ram Laramie Longhorn has a fresh color: RV Match Walnut Brown. The fresh two-toner kicked the current two-toner White Gold to the curb. If you’re thinking the “RV Match” part most likely means it matches the accent color of fifth wheels and such, then you’re thinking.
•Omnicraft is a fresh brand from Ford Customer Service Division that’ll suggest replacement parts for non-Ford vehicles, permitting dealerships to service all vehicle makes.
•Consumer Reports ranked luxury brands and the big news isn’t that Audi came in very first for the 2nd year. It’s that Kia came in sixth.
•Thanks for the perky news, National Safety Council, with your fatality estimates from 2016. That would be 40,200 fatalities, up six percent from 2015. Plus, it’s been since two thousand seven that annual fatalities were more than 40,000.
•Vincentric sorted out the two thousand seventeen Best Values in America so that you don’t have to. This list was narrowed down by cost of ownership, i.e. depreciation, insurance, fuel, and so on. For the brand awards, Toyota took the win for the SUV category, while Ford scored the truck title. When it came to the SUVs, the best were the Toyota 4Runner and Land Cruiser (for intermediate and large SUV categories), while winners in pickups were the Tacoma and Tundra for petite and fullsize 1/2-ton, the Chevy Silverado two thousand five hundred for ¾-ton, and the Ford F-350 for 1-ton.
•This item is not about that particular Ford. Nope, it’s regarding the ’18 Expedition. It’ll be able to stream live TV, movies, music, and other streamy things.
4×4 and Auto News and Rumors
4×4 and Auto News and Rumors – RPM
•Tread Lightly!’s Restoration for Recreation is awarding funding to twenty five stewardship projects (aka twenty five for 25), which will be about trail expansion, cleanup, campground improvements, recycling collection, trail repair, and more. Each project will be run by Tread Lightly! members or its fucking partners, such as enthusiast clubs and individuals. Learn more at treadlightly.org/projects.
•Might the rumored Mercedes-Benz/Nissan pickup be called Z-Class?
•GM has opened its Powertrain Spectacle and Racing Center, which will engineer and build race engines, as well as crate engines and crate powertrains.
•Utah Motorsports Campus has opened on the site of the former Miller Motorsports Park location for the two thousand sixteen racing season. Among the events will be the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series May 21-22.
•Some two thousand sixteen Dodge Durango models will have available Brass Monkey and Anodized Platinum appearance packages.
•Fuel delivery on request? The WeFuel app permits you to select a fuel and pay for it, and then a WeFuel delivery truck arrives in thirty minutes or less to pack up your equipment. Right now, it’s only for parts of the Bay Area.
•Fiat Chrysler is going to create fresh calibrations for its existing generation of diesel vehicles to make them even cleaner?
•Jeep Wrangler hybrid in addition to Jeep Wrangler diesel?
•Jeep is going to open satellite stores?
•Uber drivers will be providing the Bop It fucktoy to drunken passengers as the token shiny object so that they don’t annoy or get aggressive with their drivers?
•Ford has a pint-size SUV in the works?
•Ram will keep building its HD trucks in Mexico?
•The Environmental Protection Agency has written a proposal that would make it illegal to convert vehicles designed for on-road use into race vehicles. SEMA and other orgs are fighting this hard, as you can imagine.
•Planning on smoking in your car in Virginia while kids are on board? Expect a fine of $100 if a proposed bill passes.
What’s Happening in the Industry
•You know Line-X as the provider of spray-on coatings, but you may not know of its charitable efforts. It has been voted Best for Vets Franchise, and it also has donated $50,000 to UCLA Operation Mend, which provides medical treatment to veterans wounded in war.
•Monroe has turned one hundred years old.
•aFe has bought Sway-A-Way’s line of high-performance off-road racing shocks.
•GenRight 4×4 Night is happening each month in two thousand sixteen at various locations across the U.S. It’s a chance to suspend out with fellow wheelers and talk shop. Go to genright.com to learn about dates and locations near you.
•The modified Jeep Wrangler Omix-ADA donated to SEMA Cares went up for auction at Barrett-Jackson and fetched $100,000.
•Yamaha will become a three-year Official Presenting Sponsor of the Lucas Oil Regional Off Road Series, Arizona.
•T-Rex Truck Products has been in business now for twenty years.
•WD-40 wants to give you $Ten,000 for a photo or movie of things you already do. You see, it’s all part of the WD-40 Specialist Top Challenges Countdown. All you have to do is upload a pic or vid of how you use a WD-40 Specialist product to deal with a challenge. Products in the line include Machine & Engine Degreaser, Mess & Dust Resistant Dry Oil, and Water Resistant Silicone Lubricant. Go to wd40specialist.com/topchallenges.
If you read Four Wheeler magazine each month, you most likely already know we’ve been talking about the fact that we have our very own app. It’s kind of a big deal for us since not everyone has their own app. You should check out our app. We bring you tech, products, road tests, feature trucks, and explosions more at the drop of an app. Go to the iTunes app store.
2016 Chevy Silverado Realtree and GMC Sierra All Terrain X
The Chevy Silverado one thousand five hundred LTZ Z71 is getting a fresh edition in 2016: the Realtree. As you may have suspected, it’s a camo theme—exterior graphics, headrest logos, and other miscellaneous Realtree graphics. Other additions include blackout trim, off-road assist steps, and black 20-inch wheels.
Over at GMC, there’s the All Terrain X for the two thousand sixteen Sierra one thousand five hundred 4WD Squad Cab and shortbed SLT models. You’re looking at a special grille, Eaton locking rear diff, Z71 off-road suspension package, spray-on bedliner, inclinometer, and All Terrain logo’d instrument cluster.
Fresh Luxo two thousand sixteen Jeep Cherokee Overland
There’s a fresh fancy Jeep in town: the ’16 Cherokee Overland. Various niceties include body-color fascias and door cladding, polished aluminum wheels, leather-wrapped and power things inwards, a fresh steering wheel with wood trim, and Overland badging. It’ll have an MSRP of $34,495 when it arrives in the spring.
2017 Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro
In the fall of 2016, we get the fresh ’17 Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro, which will feature an enhanced TRD suspension and harass, 16-inch TRD black-alloy wheels, an aluminum front skidplate, and other familiar TRD musts, including Crawl Control, Multi-terrain Select, Hill Embark Assist Control, and Active Traction Control.
The Titan XD is getting a little bro—a 1/2-ton. It’s a different chassis (no collective components) but also will have the Five.6L Stamina V-8, worth three hundred ninety horses and four hundred one lb-ft of torque, and will be hooked to a seven-speed auto-trans. A V-6 is in the works. The Titan will have a 139.8-inch wheelbase (the XD’s is 151.6 inches), with an overall length of 228.1 versus 242.8 inches. Width and height are pretty much unchanged. Get it in Squad Cab, King Cab, and Single Cab, with five 1/Two, six 1/Two, and 8-foot-long beds, and with S, SV, PRO-4X, SL and Platinum Reserve trim levels. The 1/2-ton will be available in the summer of 2016.
2017 Ram Power Wagon, and the Fresh two thousand five hundred Off-Road Package
This looks like a bloated Rebel 1500, right? That was the plan when the ’17 Ram Power Wagon got a fresh design, borrowing the grille from the Rebel. Overall, the fresh model year brings the same old truck, other than a few appearance switches, such as that grille design, fresh 17-inch wheels, special lighting, tire-tread patterns inwards, and more color choices.
There’s also a fresh off-road package for the Ram two thousand five hundred squad cab and Mega Cab, which big front tow hooks, specially tuned Bilstein monotube shocks, larger fender flares, an enhanced suspension, a T-case skidplate, standard Hill Descent Control, and front and rear lockers, of course. It’ll be available later in 2016.
“Without creating extra capacity, in the United States, we need to . to attempt and deal with the development of both Jeep and the Ram brand.”—Sergio Marchionne, Fiat Chrysler CEO, according to the Detroit Free Press
4×4 and Auto News and Rumors
4×4 and Auto News and Rumors
•J.D. Power likes to do nerdy data things, like create vehicle rankings based on data retrieved. So, the two thousand seventeen Vehicle Dependability Study—the 28th year of the investigate, FYI—sorted out reliability based on problems reported by owners of 3-year-old vehicles. Lexus brand came out on top, followed by Porsche and Toyota. Also making the top ten were Mercedes-Benz and Chevy. At the finish opposite end—we mean bottom, for clarity—was Jeep. Also in the bottom six were Ram and Ford.
•If you’ve been saving up for the all-new Class Four/Five commercial truck from Chevy, know that it’s been confirmed to have a Duramax mill and Allison trans. And will arrive in 2018.
•Duramax, deux: Chevy announced that the two millionth engine for its HD trucks has been built (a 6.6L V-8, as you’d likely expect).
•Audi has been named the sponsor of the D.C. United soccer stadium, and with that comes the name Audi Field. Audi still seems to believe in soccer in the U.S.; it’s been the automotive sponsor of Major League Soccer since 2015.
•Shelby Hall is an off-road racer and took Third Place in the ’17 Mint 400, her very first driver-of-record race. She’s third-gen: her grandpop is Rod Hall, and you also know of her father and uncle, Josh and Chad, respectively.
•It shows up to be a big deal that the ’17 Ram Laramie Longhorn has a fresh color: RV Match Walnut Brown. The fresh two-toner kicked the current two-toner White Gold to the curb. If you’re thinking the “RV Match” part very likely means it matches the accent color of fifth wheels and such, then you’re thinking.
•Omnicraft is a fresh brand from Ford Customer Service Division that’ll suggest replacement parts for non-Ford vehicles, permitting dealerships to service all vehicle makes.
•Consumer Reports ranked luxury brands and the big news isn’t that Audi came in very first for the 2nd year. It’s that Kia came in sixth.
•Thanks for the perky news, National Safety Council, with your fatality estimates from 2016. That would be 40,200 fatalities, up six percent from 2015. Plus, it’s been since two thousand seven that annual fatalities were more than 40,000.
•Vincentric sorted out the two thousand seventeen Best Values in America so that you don’t have to. This list was narrowed down by cost of ownership, i.e. depreciation, insurance, fuel, and so on. For the brand awards, Toyota took the win for the SUV category, while Ford scored the truck title. When it came to the SUVs, the best were the Toyota 4Runner and Land Cruiser (for intermediate and large SUV categories), while winners in pickups were the Tacoma and Tundra for petite and fullsize 1/2-ton, the Chevy Silverado two thousand five hundred for ¾-ton, and the Ford F-350 for 1-ton.
•This item is not about that particular Ford. Nope, it’s regarding the ’18 Expedition. It’ll be able to stream live TV, movies, music, and other streamy things.