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Benchmark Vehicles has caught our eye in the past with bold, bright-orange branding and vicious-looking off-road adventure vans. So we decided to dig a little deeper into its portfolio and see what the Portland, Oregon shop has been up to of … Continue reading Swiss Army Sprinter camper van packs five people, solar power and plenty of gear
Hymer’s Fiat Ducato-based Free camper van was one of the standouts of last year’s Düsseldorf Caravan Salon, a youthful adventure van with flip-away rear bed, vibrant graphics and available sleeping space for two or three singles, a couple or … Continue reading Hymer makes its versatile, adventure-loving Free camper van a little swankier
Bentley celebrates its 100th birthday in grand fashion today, but instead of looking back it’s taking a look at what ultra-luxury will mean in the year 2035 – and gettin’ kind of weird with it. Much more than just a simple A-to-B shuttle, the… Continue reading Bentley loads electric GT concept with weird sustainable materials and next-gen tech
Follow camping or travel at all and it’s almost impossible to wander Instagram or YouTube without stumbling on them – the mid/late-20s, attractive #vanlife couple exploring the world in a garage-made conversion, often flashing a little man bu… Continue reading Hymer builds the ultimate Mercedes camper van for adventurous van life couples
What’s better than a pickup truck – or even Jeep Gladiator – loaded with motorcycles? A mystical BMW pickup truck with a BMW adventure bike strapped atop its teak-lined bed. It’s not the BMW pickup truck teaser that some fans might like, but … Continue reading BMW drops a pickup bed on an X7 to make it a motorcycle hauler
As usual, exotic supercars, race cars and vintage machines were the focus of this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, but the event also hosted a very different debut. The new Extreme E race series, Formula E’s unruly off-road brother, chose t… Continue reading Extreme E race series reveals its terrain-leveling all-electric SUV
Way back in 2011, a year after Bugatti had set its long-standing world speed record, SSC showed it had no intention of relinquishing the title for good, revealing the silky smooth 1,350-hp Tuatara. Things seemed like they were moving along, but then the Tuatara went MIA and looked like it had become a member of the vaporware club. The all-American supercar reemerged in Pebble Beach last year, just as a new round of “world’s fastest” is growing hotter and hotter. Tuatara production is now underway, marking a rather important step in the Tuatara’s quest to become world’s speediest production car.
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Continue Reading Nearly a decade later, production of the 1,750-hp SSC Tuatara begins
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Continue reading Nearly a decade later, production of the 1,750-hp SSC Tuatara begins
The naming of a new Volkswagen Silicon Valley research center that’s really a 20-year-old Volkswagen research center? Huge yawn. A Halloween-colored, 11-window 1962 Type 2 bus with weird organic styling, pure-electric powertrain, facial recognition and holographic infotainment? We’re wide awake, eyes and ears open. It’s no wonder VW spliced the two announcements together, previewing innovations yet to come from its reinvented innovations facility with a one-of-a-kind electrified Microbus.
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Continue Reading Forget the I.D. Buzz, Volkswagen’s loaded an all-electric 1962 Splitty with next-gen tech
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Earlier this year, Volkswagen announced the updated T6 van, dubbing it T6.1. In addition to roaming highways and worksites, the T6.1 van will slide its way under an updated California camper van. Volkswagen previewed the revised version of its icon this week ahead of a planned world premiere next month. The updated camper van gets some interior and exterior touchups, a new camper command center to complement the van’s digital cockpit, and some new driver-assistance features that are sure to help out on the way to and from camp.
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Continue Reading Volkswagen’s ageless California camper van gets a youthful boost of new technology
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Continue reading Volkswagen's ageless California camper van gets a youthful boost of new technology
A compact toy hauler and dedicated efficiency apartment, the Sportcaravan Cube is far better equipped for dawn-till-dusk adventure and dusk-till-dawn living than the average travel trailer. It fits its gear-hungry garage and four-sleeper livi… Continue reading Sportcaravan Cube camping trailer sleeps three motorcycles and four riders … at the same time