Ford Road Tests Articles

King Of The Desert

Ford Raptor 1,000-Mile Prototype Test more

2009 Ford F150 FX4 First Drive

The New Blue Oval more

2008 Ford F-450 Super Duty

We take a look at Ford All New Consumer F-450! more

2006 Ford Explorer First Drive

Stronger And Better, But Can It Wheel? more

Single vs. Two-Speed Transfer Cases

Well-dressed marketing gurus want you to believe that owning a rugged SUV with a 4x4 option will allow you to be young and in vogue with an active lifestyle. The “live young” marketing scheme has worked because consumers are buying the idea—the more

2001 4x4 of the Year

This is it. It’s our chance to show that our skills include more than just modifying, building, and driving older rigs to the limits of human ability (or intelligence). We can also test and evaluate the new 4x4s that have sprung from the imaginations of t more

2000 4x4 of the Year

It's a love/hate deal. We love testing new vehicles but we hate the weeks of filling in the judging books, pondering the minute details of every vehicle, and ranking the vehicles against each other. Sure it's satisfying to emerge from a locked office at the en more

On the Smaller Side - 4x4 Trucks Comparison

It’s all apples to apples, and these six trucks are the compact-truck market. To both show you what’s what in this market and point out the strong and weak points of each vehicle, we gathered together a Chevrolet ZR2, a Dodge Dakota, a Ford Ranger, a more