Ford F-Series
“Ford 3.5-Liter Ecoboost: Hauling Power in F-150 and Mustang | Giga Gears”
Sometimes there is a subset of car culture that you’ve just missed out on somehow. That’s what happened to me and the 3.5-liter Ecoboost-swap Mustang community. I just didn’t know they existed, but it was brought to my attention today via a tweeted screenshot of a Facebook post, which naturally sent me into a research…
Top Cars with Largest Sales Growth in 2020 | Giga Gears
Here at Jalopnik, we like to reward improvement. Sure, more than 750,000 people bought a Ford F-Series last year, but that’s not exactly news. The F-Series has been the top-selling vehicle in the U.S. for decades. Instead, let’s talk about the cars that sold significantly better in 2023 than they did in 2022. In terms…
“Full-Size Pickup Trucks Continue to Dominate U.S. Auto Sales in 2023 | Giga Gears”
2023 has officially come to a close, which means it’s time for us to dig through yearly sales reports for fun tidbits. For example, did you know that despite Chevrolet killing off the Bolt, sales increased 63 percent compared to 2022? Or that Miata sales were also up nearly 50 percent? What’s less fun, though, is that…
“2024 Ford Raptor R: 20-HP Boost to Outperform Defunct Ram TRX | Giga Gears”
It has been fourteen years since the original Ford F-150 Raptor appeared with 310 horsepower from a 5.4-liter naturally-aspirated V8. All these years later and Ford has cranked up the power to well over double that with the 2024 Raptor R’s 5.2-liter supercharged V8, which now makes 720 hp. The newly-revised Raptor R…
Ford F-150 Rescues Tesla Cybertruck Stuck in Snow | Giga Gears
There’s definitely a feeling of schadenfreude when we see social media posts of Tesla Cybertrucks trying to do truck things and just completely shitting the bed. In what likely was an attempted PR stunt on Monday, some genius took a pre-production Cybertruck “Release Candidate” into Southern California’s Stanislaus…