A front camera for a better view of rock crawling and a new Torsen front differential are the key changes for the 2012 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor. Those additions will help even the most extreme off-road ...

Hardcore off-roaders and Jeep fans swear by the solid axle. They say the durability, articulation, and simplicity of a live-axle setup can't be beat. Yet slowly, the solid front axle has died out.

In the automotive world, especially when it comes to off-road trucks and SUVs, differentials come up all the time. Is your differential locking, limited slip or open? Do you have a transfer case? One ...

Project RangeRunner has undergone quite a transformation over the past several months, and with suspension and power out of the way, it was time for us to start looking at traction options. With the ...

I just spent the weekend driving a soft-top 2022 Ford Bronco Sasquatch, and it's making me rethink everything. Namely, everything I've always loved about the Jeep Wrangler. See, the Bronco is the ...

“Solid front axles are for rock donkeys!” “IFS stands for ‘inferior front suspension.” We’ve heard these standby beliefs bantered back and forth more times than we can count, so we thought we’d spend ...

Ford has filed a patent application for solid axles with integrated hub motors, hinting at a very different kind of EV powertrain from the Blue Oval. Instead of allowing wheels to move up and down ...

We recently received a call from Frank Aldana at Aldana Race Cars, in Orange, California, to let us know that as an aside to their usual business of building nostalgia Funny Cars, they'd recently been ...

Ford’s quality control appears to be getting worse. The Dearborn-based automaker somehow forgot to anneal the front axle pinions that equip certain F-150, Expedition, and Lincoln Navigator vehicles.

From the December 2019 issue of Car and Driver. The Focus has left the United States as part of Ford’s general retreat from the unfashionable part of the market that some of us still refer to as “cars ...