Truck

Following up on its ultralight Stealth pickup camper, Peak Performance is pushing the envelope yet again with the Nest, an equally impressive ultralight camper that combines hard walls with a super-flexible modular floor plan.

The Tesla Cybertruck has done what very few modern-day vehicles have been able to achieve – become one of the most recognizable cars on the road. However, Tesla has a major issue on its hands: Its angular electric pickup isn't selling in the numbers it had hoped for.

AT Overland has introduced the Aterra Slide-In to turn any Toyota Tundra or Ford F-150 into an overland explorer with its own hard-sided shelter. Buy it as a shell and outfit it yourself or pick and choose from AT Overland's long list of options.

Arctic Trucks has been building out 4x4 overlanders for years. This year, it's gone all out with a new Isuzu AT35 Basecamp, a rig built for adventurers looking to really let loose in the great outdoors.

Over a year and a million kilometers' worth of real-world testing has returned impressive results for Spanish company Fersa's "fuel efficient wheel hub," which cuts fuel burn by at least 3% and saves operators around US$3,500 per truck per year.

Cybertrucks – and their maker Tesla – have had a rough trot of late, and we're not sure this is going to help matters. This pricy job is the work of Germany-based Mansory, a company well-known for its "interesting" custom fitouts of luxury vehicles.

Four Wheel Campers looks to change the overlanding game with its crazy-modular CampOut pickup camper. Virtually every inch of the new truck camper can be arranged, tweaked and rearranged into the ultimate space for each adventure and road trip.

Dakar Rally participants know what they're signing up for: a gruelling two-week ordeal they have no guarantee of completing. But this storied event was born of an even more extreme and dangerous experience, that one man had to endure all alone...

The Shell Starship Initiative is an experiment on wheels, focusing on energy-efficient truck design using currently available tech while testing others that are near-to-market. As a former truck driver, I found the work Shell is doing to be fascinating.

Trap doors, electric expansion systems and amphibious ebikes ... those are just a few of the ideas we saw pushed across the RV market in 2024. In fact, all those ideas (and plenty more) found their way into some of the market's smallest RVs.

We've seen camper kits for vans, 4x4s and crossovers. But pickup truck owners have long been left to build their own. Roadloft bucks that trend with a pickup camper kit that becomes a truck lounge, dining area, mobile office, kitchenette and bedroom.

Last year, EV startup Telo launched a compact truck that has the same footprint as a Mini Cooper but boasts a cargo bed that challenges the big boys. At that time, it was listed at under $50k, but the company has now revealed a much lower base price.