MIDLAND, Texas — The Tailgate in Midland has been bringing Midlanders music and drinks since 2020, but they have been operating out of compliance for quite some time. The city recently told owners of ...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — After 100 years of making pickups, you might think there was no room for improvement to seemingly elementary components like the bed, trailer hitch, tailgate and rear bumper.

Ford kicked off the ongoing pickup truck tailgate wars in 2008 with the introduction of the first tailgate step. The feature included a pop-out step and handle for climbing into the bed. Since then we ...

From fold-out steps to six-function gimmicks, tailgates prove even the most basic truck parts aren’t safe from mission creep. “Mission creep” is a term familiar to anyone who’s ever worked on a ...

In the land of pickup truck battles, the winners never sleep, meaning there’s always innovating to come up with new ideas, tricks and gimmicks so there’s something new, fresh and chat-worthy when a ...

The 2026 GMC Hummer EV arrives on the scene with some notable changes and updates. Just a few include the introduction of the Carbon Fiber Edition, the King Crab 4-wheel steering mode, and ...

General Motors has the MultiPro tailgate, but now it looks like GM is developing another new tailgate to battle its Detroit rivals. GM recently filed a trademark application for the name "Multistow." ...

Accessing a pickup's bed never used to be an issue. In decades past, trucks were lower to the ground and their bedsides weren't as tall. Then, in the late 1990s, trucks started getting physically ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...