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10 Best just turned 40, and like many 40-year-olds, it's going through a time of reflection and reassessment. 10Best assures us this is not a midlife crisis but an evolution.

AN ODD CHOICE TO COMMEMORATE 50 YEARS OF M

If you had a performance division with 50 years of glorious history, would you celebrate it by introducing a plug-in-hybrid SUV?

THE REBELLION ADVANCES

For over a decade, the Power Wagon has served as Ram's burly off-road king. But it doesn't offer Cummins power, and customers clamored for a stonking diesel off-roader with more towing capacity.

Getting Warmer

A prototype drive of the high-performance Integra suggests it could be a nice foil for the raucous Civic Type R.

EV, Straight Up

Highs: 253-mile EPA range, practical interior, free of silly EV gimmicks. Lows: All work and no gimmicks makes it a dull boy, not so lively off the line, Chevy Bolt EUV costs less.

JOIN ROAD & TRACK FOR ITS FIRST-EVER ADVENTURE THROUGH APPALACHIA

The Great Smoky Mountains are a driver's paradise.

London

Wrong side of the road, right good time.

Maturity Is Overrated

Highs: Quicker to 60 mph than the manual, active safety tech included, lots of drive modes. Lows: Carries extra pounds, a CVT just isn’t as fun as a stick, luxury price without all the luxury niceties.

Seamlessly Electric

The i7 smoothly integrates an EV powertrain into the new 7-series megasedan.

From Homely Hybrid to Hello, Hot Stuff

Blinded by fuel economy, we settled for an ugly Prius for too long.

Roamin' Holiday

Bug out like a billionaire.

2023 FORD F-150 RAPTOR R: Trucks of Fury

Highs: 700 horsepower, monster-truck presence, surprisingly graceful on-road manners. Lows: Not 703 horsepower, can't lock the rear diff in two-wheel drive, it costs how much?

Track Tractor

An SUV for the track sounds as ridiculous as a supercar optimized for off-roading. And yet, Lamborghini says that around a typical racetrack, its new Urus Performante is quicker than the original 2015 Huracán.

E-tron and On

Highs: Conventionally handsome exterior, upscale and userfriendly interior, largely free of EV weirdness. Lows: Mechanically identical to its Volkswagen sibling, ho-hum highway range, not as speedy as some rivals.

DECKED OUT SILVERADO

Is this the ultimate overland accessory for pickups?

ROCK COMMANDO

Mike Shaw built this '67 Jeepster Commando with the help of his grandson Clay. Mike and his son Chris are avid off-roaders and have spent many days and nights working on project vehicles over the years, but this project was different.

JEEP BEACH 2022

10 days, 25,000-plus Jeeps, 225,000-plus spectators

TAULER JACK

A new alternative to the old off-road jack

GRANDDADDY'S BIRTHDAY

We join Jeepers Jamboree for their 7Oth annual trek to the Rubicon

ROCK JUNCTION 2022

4 days, 23 trails, 1 awesome event

OVERLAND ADVENTURE 2022:

MEET THE PARTICIPANTS 12 outstanding, Mojave-ready over landers

This fourdoor Ford foreshadowed late-model Broncos

Ddecades ahead of the '20 four-door Bronco, and even preceding the Ford Explorer and Excursion, came an SUV that could have passed for OEM and was built to answer the call for a three-row people-haulin' off-roader.

JEEP OR BLAZER BUILDING

I was hoping to pick your brain as to a couple of different builds. I have a '19 Jeep Wrangler JL and a '74 Chevy Blazer. I'm a little baffled as to what to focus on. The '74 full convertible Blazer is my dream vehicle. She's been a long build and now I am thinking of focusing my energy on my wife's '19 Jeep JL. I recently joined a Jeep club and have been going off-road with a few guys. I'm shopping around for lift kits. Would you suggest that my time be spent and focused on the Blazer or enjoy the Jeep? I really can't do both.

What's your plan for a flat tire off-road?

This issue of Four Wheeler includes a story on the assembly and test of the new Tauler Jack, and that got me thinking about all the flat tires I've had off-road.

SANDTASTIC!

Dangle the opportunity to put the hammer down on more than a dozen square miles of the largest coastal dune complex in the world, add in partying with family and friends at sand camps, spice it up a bit with a variety of motorsport competition and nightly concerts, and it's easy to see why the five-day

JEEP GRAND CAMPER

This custom 1994 Grand Cherokee and homebuilt trailer were made to go camping

VAN LIFE MEETS OFF ROAD

Lance Blair's 2019 Ford Transit Quadvan 4x4

THE HOT ROD ARCHIVES

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

Chevord

While he was covering the 1955 Bonneville National Speed Trials, Petersen Publishing photographer Bob D'Olivo ran across Gary Guinn's yellow '33 Ford coupe.

THE BIG TOP

In the January issue, we featured Gray Baskerville's '32 Roadster. In that article, we heaped praise on Gray for his witty and engaging writing style, so this month, we present two examples written from his early tenure at HRM. Both these features appeared in the February 1979 issue, and both are replete with Gray's signature humor and clever turns-of-phrase. Though there's no writer credited for the single pager on the fiberglass '32, it's pretty obviously Gray.