Land Rover’s 4xFar Festival 2020
We get behind the wheel of the all-new 2020 Land Rover Defender at 4XFar. Music performances, outdoor activities, and the first chance to drive the all-new Land Rover Defender were all features of the inaugural 4XFar festival in Coachella Valley on January 18-19, 2020. With the weekend
2020 Alcan 5000 Rally Preparations
5,000 Miles of Arctic Fury: Prepping for the Alcan 5000 Rally Sub-zero temps and bone chilling wind. Teeth chattering opportunities and endless miles of snow. Populated areas occasional moose and hauling-ass semis. This climate sounds like a challenge for anybody, especially a husband and wife team in an
2019 Mudfest Winners
NWAPA’s AWD and 4WD Leaders Photos by Ryan Douthit, MediaSpigot LLC The Northwest Automotive Press Association’s (NWAPA) two-day 2019 Mudfest event offered up the newest 4WD/AWD vehicles for review, by 25 automotive journalists. In its 25th year, Mudfest let’s journalists choose which rigs were tops—both on and off
Trail Trek Tour with a Modified 2019 Honda Passport
Although vendors and show-goers congregated at Overland Expo East for the weekend, we rolled in with a select group of media on Friday before registration closed. We spent the day with Trail Trek Tour driving a modified AWD Honda Passport, both on and off pavement. Honda had
SEMA Show 2019 Highlights
If “overlanding” was not known to the auto industry before, it sure knows now. The SEMA Show 2019, put on by Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA), brought many industry people in front of some true overland builds and many overland-looking builds. We appreciated them all, for
2019 Overland Expo East: Improved
The 2019 Overland Expo East attracted overlanding enthusiasts and globe-trotters from all over North America, and beyond. This year, the event was held a month earlier and moved to a different part of the East Coast, from Oskar Blue's REEB Ranch south of Asheville, North Carolina,
THE REBELLE RALLY: America’s 1st Female-Only Off-Road Adventure
The Rebelle Rally is peculiar amongst off-road motorsports. For starters, as America’s longest off-road rally, traveling nearly 1,200 miles from Northern Nevada to within a stone’s throw of the Mexican border, it is open exclusively to female competitors. It’s also a multi-stage, multi-day navigation rally—putting it
