Pickup Trucks

SURFING SAFARI: About 75 miles south of San Francisco, California, a series of rocky bottoms along the Pacific Ocean coastline is one of the planet's best place to Curl all Ten Toes. On the way to catching waves, automaker Hyundai expects that more dudes and dudettes are hauling

PRE-HISTORY VS. HOLLYWOOD: Michael Crichton's epic 1991 novel "Jurassic Park", followed by Steven Spielberg's 1993 screen adaptation, tells a suspenseful tale of extinct pre-historic Sauroids revived for a 20th century island amusement park. The forewarning, often echoed in these times, expounds upon the dire

PRESERVING & CROSSING COUNTRYSIDE: There are park rangers, forest rangers, Army Rangers and the Texas Rangers, both baseball and highway patrol. And then there are Ford Rangers, which have included an Edsel station wagon, F-Series pickup and Bronco SUV trims, and most famously three generations of compact boxed frame pickup

RADICAL RENEWABLE CHANGE: Five years ago there was a revolution in American automaking. For the first time a light truck maker boldly bodied its best selling half-ton pickup truck in weight shaving recyclable aircraft strength aluminum alloy. Though initially met with skepticism, Ford's  F-Series "Built Ford Tough&

GARAGE -A- BILLY GOAT: In an American world the crew cab half ton pickup trucks garner all the the heavy towing and glamour accolades. However, praise for the full size pickup truck ends in front of a typical Yankee house garage, perpendicular parking space or narrow rutted dirt road where

FOOD FOR GRUNT: A breakfast of oats is good for a horse, but for more grunt alfalfa offers extra carb energy. Feeding a internal combustion work engine diesel provides 15% energy density than similar meal of gasoline. Thus, when it comes to heavy duty work trucks large displacement diesel engines