A few months ago we shared spy photos of the new Kia Tasman, the brand’s first pickup truck. Designed primarily for Australia, Africa and the Middle East to do battle with trucks like the Ford Ranger and Toyota Hilux, the midsize body-on-frame Tasman is rapidly approaching its debut, and Kia just released the first…
We used to be a proper country. A country where performance pickups like the Chevy 454 SS, Toyota Tacoma X-Runner and GMC Syclone roamed the streets. Performance pickups still exist today like the Ram TRX and Ford F-150 and Ranger Raptor models, but they’re off-road focused. Things might have been different had Ford…
Two, maybe three times in the lead up to driving the newFord Ranger Raptor, I heard it compared to a rally car. This something that car companies have been increasingly eager to say about their cars in the last few years, and it’s also something that trips the old switch in my brain marked “skepticism.” As I…