Seaweed-Sucking Truck to Clean Spain's Hottest Beaches

Keeping Alicante's miles of shoreline pristine for the multitudes of beachgoers that congregate to the Mediterranean city every year is no small feat—what with all the seaweed that washes up there. Problem is, the city's existing seaweed mitigation techniques end up eroding the beaches they're meant to clean. This…

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GM's Vibrating Seats Might Be More Startling Than Accidental Drifts

It's designed to make driving safer, particularly after a long day at work or a tiring road trip, but GM's haptic seat technology that lets you know when you start unintentionally changing lanes might be even scarier than the drift.

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Undefeated - The Toughest Bridge in the World

The Durham train trestle in North Carolina has stood its ground for the last 100 years. This fact doesn't deter some drivers from challenging the bridge about once a month. Result = Failure.

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Why A Man Wants Me To Race A 600-hp Stadium Super Truck

One man has blown up my twitter in the past 48 hours. That man is fellow Jalopnian, James F Johnson Jr. (@dmidwestredneck), and he desperately wants me to race in Robby Gordon’s new Stadium Super Truck Series. And, if you look at the kickass video below, it isn’t hard to see why.

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I Am Actually Tempted To Buy This Diesel Toyota Camry-amino

It's really quite sad, the demise of the trucklet in this country. The El Camino and Ford Ranchero are long gone, and the Pontiac G8 Sport Truck was euthanized before it could go down with the brand. Even the "small" trucks that Toyota or Ford or Nissan used to make aren't so small anymore, and car-based trucks like the…

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GM Has 245,853 Unsold Full-Sized Pickup Trucks In Its Inventory

For months, General Motors has been teasing us with tidbits about the new Chevrolet Silverado, which is set to come out sometime next year. This is an important model for GM, because pickups only get overhauled about once a decade.

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Meet A Dog With Great Taste In Pickup Trucks

We mourn the loss of the compact pickup truck. One by one, the trucks like the Ford Ranger, Mazda B-Series, Chevy S-10 and others have all gone out of production or been replaced by larger models. Whatever happened to the tough, affordable, small truck?

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A Truck Driver Sneezes Destruction Onto 10 Cars

Have you ever sneezed while driving? You can't see a thing. Two or three sneezes in a row can mean utter blindness for what seems like an eternity. That's what happened to Antonio Zamora as he drove a three-axle truck through a town near Oakland, Calif. on Thursday.

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