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Grind Your Own Gears

6/22/2018

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We love manual transmissions. Unfortunately, over the past few years they have become increasingly less common. This has been the result of a combination of factors: Waning public interest, more efficient automatic transmissions, and fading margins. Purists like us will argue that there’s still something magical about rowing your own gears, and while true, it’s hit a point where automatics can do the job faster, heck a slush-box equipped Corvette is quicker than the stick version. Crazy.
 
While there’s just shy of 100 2018 model year manual-equipped vehicles available on dealer lots, only three of them are pickups and eight are SUVs. It’s a shame, really, but there’s a real chance that we’ll see the manual transmission go extinct in our lifetime.
 
Chevrolet Colorado
Nissan Frontier 
Toyota Tacoma
 
Fiat 500 and 500X
Jeep Compass, Renegade, and Wrangler
Kia Soul
Mini Clubman and Countryman   
 
- Trucks-365 Staff

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Vaughn Gittin Jr. Drifts A Raptor Around The Nurburgring!

6/11/2018

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You have seen the video of drift legend Vaughn Gittin Jr. drifting a Ford F-150 Raptor around the Nurburgring in Germany right? Wait, you haven’t? Well lucky for you the team that put the original film together has released even more footage. There’s now the original cut, an extended directors edition, and a behind-the-scenes video. Seriously, we can’t get enough of it.
 
The story goes like this… Vaughn travels to Germany with the intent to drift his Ford Mustang RTR around the famous race circuit. Weather had a different idea. With the Mustang shoot rained out the team, instead of scrapping the day, pulled out a Ford F-150 Raptor and sent Vaughn on his merry way.
 
Being ever the skeptics that we are, we can’t help but wonder just what the team was doing with a Raptor in Germany to begin with, and if this wasn’t planned (or at least a back up plan) the entire time. Either way, the video is a fun and fresh take on traditional drift and Ring videos that us truck folks quickly grow tired of watching. It’s just a bummer the Raptor doesn’t sound more like the Mustang… because man that Raptor sounds awful!
 
Check out the videos and a ton of behind-the-scenes photos below!
 
- Trucks-365 Staff
Source: Michael Crenshaw and Team RTR

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RJ Anderson's Snow Blind Video!

6/11/2018

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If you’ve never driven a UTV you are seriously missing out. They may be expensive golf carts but they are a hell of a lot of fun. The power-to-weight ratio is insane and suspension travel rivals may off-road race vehicles. We can forgive not driving one, but what we can’t forgive is not watching one of off-road racer RJ Anderson’s viral UTV videos.
 
The latest, Snow Blind, follows the massive XP1K series. With four installments, aptly named XP1K, XP1K2, XP1K3, and XP1K4 the series has amassed nearly 10 million views on YouTube. For Snow Blind the crew teamed up with legendary snowboarder Thorstein Horgmo and took over the Donner Ranch Ski Resort located in northern California. The vehicle piloted by Anderson was an all-new 2018 Polaris RZR XP Turbo-S. It was modified with a Holz Racing Products roll cage, Walker Evans Racing wheels and chocks, BFGoodrich KR2 Baja T/A studded tires, communications from Rugged Radios, and Sparco seats.
 
Check out the video below and let us know what you think!
 
- Trucks-365 Staff
- Source: Mad Media

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"From the design of the car to the integration of Rockstar's Torstein Horgmo, we really wanted to make this project something special," commented Co-Director, Matt Martelli.  "We've always wanted to create an automotive film integrating our love for snowboarding.  This project was both challenging and fun in many ways."
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National Donut Day... Enthusiast Style!

6/1/2018

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We love donuts! Glazed, sprinkles, sugar, heck even plain donuts are amazing! What’s even more impressive are donuts made of smoke, dust, and tire rubber. As lovers of all things power, performance, and speed we would never turn down the opportunity to roast rubber. In celebration we’ve scoured the Internet and found a few folks who understand the true meaning of this special day. Whether it’s a high horsepower racecar, a beat up hooptie running on three cylinders, or a daily driver getting down in the dirt we love it all. Now let’s all sit back with some fried dough, bonus points if there’s bacon involved, and enjoy the hilarity that is National Donut Day!

- Trucks-365 Staff

duPont Regestry gets in on the action... 
https://blog.dupontregistry.com/features/dozen-exotics-national-doughnut-day-2018/

Car and Driver shares the fun...
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/nissan-celebrates-national-doughnut-day-the-right-way

The Drive teaches us how to do donuts...
http://www.thedrive.com/news/21209/national-donut-day-is-time-to-make-the-donuts-the-gearhead-way

AutoGuide gives us the ten best cars to do donuts in...
http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2016/06/top-10-best-cars-to-do-donuts-in.html

Hagerty lays down a history lesson...
https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/keyword/donut-day

And, best of all, LifeHacker shows were to get fat for free...
https://lifehacker.com/where-to-get-free-donuts-today-1826482171

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