
Ford rolled a single Bronco into SEMA this week built specifically for the kind of winter work most vehicles never attempt. Named Frostwarden, the one-off sits on portal gear lifts from 74Weld, runs 42-inch BFGoodrich tires on custom 18-inch Weld bead-lock wheels, and carries a supercharged 7.3-liter V8 that produces more than 1,200 horsepower and more than 1,000 lb-ft of torque on race fuel. The whole package was assembled by Kincer Chassis in Tennessee as a demonstration of what Ford Racing Parts and a short list of partners can do when the brief is simply to go as far as the platform allows.

Tyler Fever of Prop Department already cut a Ford Festiva into the thinnest street-legal car possible. For the follow-up he reversed the idea and produced a version that measures exactly ten feet from one side to the other. Three more of the little 1988 hatchbacks served as donors, each purchased for roughly $250, so the whole starting collection stayed cheap while still supplying enough parts and metal.

A 2019 Ford EcoSport Titanium left Ford as a short compact crossover with four wheels, Titanium trim, and a naturally aspirated 2.0-liter Duratec four-cylinder rated at 166 horsepower and 149 pound-feet. Prior ownership later sliced the body open behind the rear doors, welded in an extra rear section plus an auxiliary subframe, and added a third axle so six matching 17-inch alloy wheels now sit on Firestone WeatherGrip tires. Black paint and thin white pinstripes cover the longer sides, filler panels close the gaps, and a roof-mounted wing sits over the stretch. A side-swinging rear gate still opens onto cargo space lined in gray deep-pile carpet.

Romain Dumas guided Ford’s Super Mustang Mach-E up the Goodwood hill in 41.98 seconds during Sunday’s Timed Shoot-Out. That mark beat the next quickest entry, a new Gen4 Formula E car driven by Daniel Ticktum, by 0.48 seconds. It also left the rest of a strong field more than four seconds behind.

Bandimere Speedway in the Colorado mountains once hosted plenty of memorable runs before it shut down for good. High up at nearly 5,800 feet, the thin air tests every vehicle that rolls through the gates. On one recent afternoon a stock Tesla Model Y pulled into the staging lane next to a fully equipped Ford Police Interceptor Utility from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. Both drivers lined up for a clean quarter-mile sprint, lights flashing and siren blaring from the Ford as the green lights flashed.

Crowds gathered the stands at zMAX Dragway in North Carolina for the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals, eager for the Ford Cobra Jet 2200 to go down the track. This electric beast ran the quarter-mile in 6.87 seconds, far faster than its predecessor, the Cobra Jet 1800, which took 7.62 seconds. It’s not just the time that matters; the Cobra Jet 2200 reached an astonishing 222 miles per hour, smashing any electric vehicle’s previous record.a

Ford engineers replied to a scorching Corvette ZR1X lap by honing the Mustang GTD. The end result was a new Competition model that lapped the Nordschleife in 6 minutes and 40.835 seconds in 2026. That lap time puts them eight seconds ahead of the Corvette ZR1X, a record that is even more astonishing given that it was set by a road-legal American car.

Ford has once again pressed the pedal to the metal on one of motorsport’s most challenging tracks. The GT Mk IV completed a lap of the Nordschleife in 6 minutes and 15.977 seconds, driven by Frédéric Vervisch, a Ford Racing factory driver. He completely tore it up, setting a lap time that will go down in history.

For decades, Caterpillar has been developing heavy machinery capable of moving large amounts of earth and changing the appearance of cities. Now they’re focusing on something smaller but still massive: a pickup truck. At the CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2026 exhibition in Las Vegas, the company debuted a Cat Truck prototype, a one-of-a-kind custom designed to answer all of the years of rumors and speculation about a Caterpillar pickup, but it came out in a shape that most people were unlikely to predict.

Lots of people cruise past brand new GMC Hummer EVs every single day without even giving it a second glance. This massive electric pickup fits in with traffic; its boxy design and silent functioning barely raise an eyebrow on the street. That is, until you place it up against a slew of exotic, high-end supercars, at which point everyone turns around and whips out their smartphones.