We covered the Ford Atlas' reveal at the Detroit Auto Show earlier this year, and when I look back on it, I think I like it even less. There's some good parts, but overall it feels fussy and overdesigned. Now that I've seen these early concept sketches for the truck, the reasons why it ended up that way make sense.

My usual qualifier for a good car is whether or not it constantly puts a smile on my face. This means I like a lot of cars that are, on paper, bad choices. A Nissan Altima has never made me smile, nor has a Chevrolet Cruze –- yet both are cars I'd recommend to people looking in those respective segments if they want…

If you woke up from a bender in Ford's press event this morning, you'd have seen a large scaffold full of buff men in construction outfits spraying showers of welding sparks and pounding large hammers into girders with rippling muscles glistening with sweat. And, based on this and the loud, blaring industrial music,…

Let's just get this out of the way right up front: nobody at Ford was ever thinking about the Raptor in terms of a baby-toting car. That's absolutely fine. This is a vehicle designed for doing things off road in a flashy, loud, fun way, not puttering around town doing family things.

This is what you really need for a trip to Virginia Beach, Va., Gulf Shores, Ala., or any other of ‘Merica's fantastically rednecky beach destinations: A pickup truck with flames on it and a matching chopper-themed beach cruiser.

There are many people who mistakenly think you can only have fun in purpose-built fast cars. To them we say, check out this '96 Ford F-150 running rallycross.

A Santa Barbara, Calif. Ford dealership got a bit of a surprise when a customer came in with a run-of-the-mill Chevrolet Silverado and a 1929 Ford pickup. He wanted to trade them in for two 2012 Ford F-150 pickups.

Just how tough is a "Built Ford Tough" Ford? Some hoons took their old F-150 off some fat jumps to find out.

If you're ready for the latest iteration of Ford's meanest truck, the time has come. The 2013 F-150 SVT Raptor has arrived.

Fresh on the heels of its F-150 XLT and Lariat models' release, Ford announced today that it will debut its 2013 FX4 trim level at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Race at the Michigan International Speedway Sunday. It will be the race's official pace truck.