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This bike proves that the future is now

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The best off-road truck ever just got much better

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Ducati's updated Monster 1200 S is as fast as it gets away from the track

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For sale: the world's nicest Toyota Land Cruiser

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This awning is the ultimate car camping accessory

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Subaru’s new Viziv-7 concept previews a seven-seat crossover

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Don't get me wrong: it's a fantastic truck. But if you really want to get it dirty, cutaway bumpers and complicated suspension won't make up for the lack of aftermarket support.

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Mercedes now makes Bond-like luxury yachts

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Chevy just designed the perfect surfmobile

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Chevy debuted its new Colorado ZR2 on Tuesday night at the L.A. Auto Show and the truck (available April 2017) is clearly designed to dethrone the Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro as America’s mid-size, off-road vehicle of choice.

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This Winnebago is so fast you can drag race it

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Give them the gift to fuel that wanderlust

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If you mashed a Jeep and truck together, this is what you'd get

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An old-school Land Cruiser that's perfect for hauling mountain bikes

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Nissan plans to build a truck specifically for search and rescue teams

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Old-school toughness takes on modern performance in the Australian Outback

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Who needs a van when you have a sidecar adventure rig?

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The Army's next troop carrier might be fueled by hydrogen

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This is the right way to rebuild a Defender

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This electric motorcycle is the perfect urban commuter

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This, folks, is how to customize a motorcycle

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The ultimate one-quiver motorcycle

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Last weekend, hundreds of Overlanders converged for the annual Overland Expo East at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. These DIY adventure-travel enthusiasts spend their time and money outfitting off-road trucks and SUVs with state-of-the-art adventure and survival goodies, including rooftop tents, on-board solar, and axes. Lots and lots of axes. For three days, the car owners participated in clinics like “Machete Use: Maintenance and Safety for Overlanders” and navigated a muddy off-road course. Meanwhile, we ogled their drool-worthy rigs—from retrofitted ambulances to burly Subaru Outbacks. Here are some of our favorites.

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This Winnebago is how we want to do #VanLife

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This concept bike predicts motorcycle technology in 2116

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We wanted to know why certain cars win in certain states, so we called the people who track the stats

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A fully-featured adventure trailer you can tow with your Subie

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For sale: tricked out Land Rovers from the most recent 007 film.

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The next generation of adventure vehicles will be unstoppable, off-road beasts

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If you love Toyotas, this festival is for you.

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Meet the off-road vehicle that assembles like an Ikea project

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For its fifth generation, Land Rover returns off-road capability to the Discovery

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Damn, this is a good looking bike

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A short-term off-road project that quickly went the way of the dodo

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Life in the slow lane, with a first-generation Land Rover Discovery

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We've long loved Land Cruisers. This new model is supremely capable—for an eye-watering high price.

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All you have to do is visit a National Park and get very, very lucky

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A classic, now with some modern off-road upgrades

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It’s not a question of if but rather how badly you want this Land Rover

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Serious upgrades make this the most capable wildland vehicle we’ve ever seen

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An Aussie-built towable to get you farther into the backcountry

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Now with DNA from the company's iconic Patrol 4x4

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A rare FJ45LV, immaculately returned to its original condition

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Jay Nelson contracted the road-trip bug in the 1980s when his parents took him and his sisters on a romp across Europe in a VW Vanagon. Afterward they shipped the van back to California so they could keep rolling across the American West. “Those are some of my best childhood memories,” says Nelson.

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In 2009, Mike Sandone and his soon-to-be wife, Sofie, took an epic road trip across the mountains, beaches, and salt flats of Sonora, Mexico, in an old Jeep Wrangler. They wanted to be highly mobile, so most nights they slept in the cramped car. Sandone kept a checklist of…

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Back in the eighties, vintage Land Cruisers were fetish objects to Tim McGrath and his buddies at Albuquerque’s Eldorado High School. During his junior year, McGrath was ecstatic to find a dark green 1974 FJ40 decaying in a barn. He scoured out the mud, mice nests, and chicken shit, then spent weekends testing the truck on camping excursions in the local mountains.

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On November 2, 2014, then 28-year-old Stephan Shay ran the toughest race of his life. Not only was the New York City Marathon freezing cold and rainy, but eight years earlier, Shay’s older brother Ryan died from a heart attack on the same course during an Olympic Trials race, also at the age of 28. Shay finished fourth among Americans and sixteenth overall.

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James Crowe didn’t start out a motorcycle guy. After a childhood filled with romping around the British Columbia backcountry on skis and mountain bikes, he became fascinated with combustion-powered vehicles and landed an apprenticeship at Steve’s Auto Restorations, a legendary shop in Portland, Oregon, in 2006.

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A totally customizable build for your truck

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You might have seen more Toyota four-wheel drives than normal on the roads around Ouray, Colorado, this past week. That’s because the town just hosted the annual FJ Summit, where Toyota owners gather with their FJ Cruisers, Tacomas, and 4Runners to drive the area’s many scenic high-alpine passes.

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No luck finding a Westy? Try this conversion kit instead.

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It could be yours for the right price

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With a top speed of 187 miles per hour, the Bentayga is the fastest SUV ever

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The go-anywhere, do-anything teardrop trailer

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It's relatively fuel efficient and also wildly capable

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Nemo, the New Hampshire-based camping brand, builds a lustworthy 4x4

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Mulliner, Bentley's in-house customization shop, spent three months turning this Bentayga into the ultimate fly-fishing adventure vehicle

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British style meets American engineering

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The answer is complicated. Here’s everything you need to know.

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The short answer? It depends on where you drive.

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For a certain breed of adventurous souls, the key to happiness is a road machine that forever stokes their desire to chase fun. Looking at these seven dream rigs, it's hard not to want to play along.

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Rooftop camping just got even more convenient, thanks to this sleek hardshell design

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Professional mountain biker Andrew Taylor (sponsored by brands including Adidas, Norco, Gravity, Bell, Kenda, and Smith) knew he wanted to hit the open road. Originally he thought he’d buy a classic VW bus, but then he found this 1994 Ford E350 short bus for $2,000 on Craigslist.

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It's beautiful, compact, and, best of all, can be towed by an Outback

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We looked at the data and found that these seven cars and trucks were the most likely to get past the 200,000-mile mark

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Why this Flying Cloud 23FB will be the ultimate office and mobile adventure testing unit

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Veteran driver Kurt Spitzner shares his treacherous-driving secrets

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Essentials to outfit the ultimate adventuremobile

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Even since VW stopped making its European Winnebago in 2003, options for small, capable campers have dwindled in the United States. Meanwhile, Japan is producing dozens of the vehicles. What gives?

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Add capability, safety, and convenience with these simple, affordable upgrades

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Chasing singletrack, giant fish, and surrender in a matchup to find the finest route across Arizona

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The ultimate two-wheeled, off-road machine

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