Caleb Jacobs

3 weeks ago | thedrive.com | Caleb Jacobs

United States Attorney General Pam Bondi and Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson have a new letter on their desk. It’s from the International Association of Fire Fighters as well as the American Economic Liberties Project, an anti-monopoly group. The letter is a call to action, as the two organizations are asking the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the FTC to investigate the consolidation of fire vehicle manufacturers.

3 weeks ago | thedrive.com | Caleb Jacobs

I’m a simple man: I love race cars and I love semi-trucks. Put the two together, and you have my attention. That’s what Australian speed freak Rob Waters has done with his W-Series Kenworth dubbed “The Prospector.” It’s specially built to run the salt flats at Lake Gairdner, and while its 142-mile-per-hour top speed might not sound that fast, it’s blistering for a big ol’ brick. I stumbled upon The Prospector by way of this excellent mini-doc on the Roadboss TV YouTube channel.

3 weeks ago | thedrive.com | Caleb Jacobs

Ford has owned the full-size pickup truck space for longer than I’ve been alive, but when it comes to big SUV sales, it falls to GM every year; the Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon are just that popular with people who buy huge family cars. That means the three-row Expedition, unlike the F-Series pickup, isn’t the default choice. I can’t imagine Ford is all that happy about this, and I also imagine that’s why the automaker put so much work into making the new Expo this good.

3 weeks ago | thedrive.com | Caleb Jacobs

Old postal Jeeps aren’t worth much. So many of them were built, and so many of them were trashed, that they weren’t even a dime a dozen. Shoot, they were more like a nickel a dozen. That’s not the case with this new Jeep Gladiator mail carrier built by step van outfitter Morgan Olson, though. Just look at it!It’s a Gladiator pickup with the back chopped off, and in place of the rear seats and bed, you’ll find a versatile service box.

1 month ago | thedrive.com | Caleb Jacobs

I haven’t thought about the Devel Sixteen in years, and chances are, you haven’t either. But if you were into supercars seven or eight years ago, you undoubtedly heard the buzz. It was supposed to be a Bugatti slayer out of Dubai with not 1,000 horsepower, not 2,000 hp, but 5,000 hp from a quad-turbo V16 engine. That seemed like the most unrealistic of all the mighty claims, but as it turns out, Steve Morris Engines in Michigan had the powerplant ready to go with dyno numbers to prove it.