This week’s Tire Smokin’ video features a 2005 Ford Excursion packing a 6.0L PowerStroke diesel engine doing a quick but wicked burnout.

This week’s Mudfest video features a Ford Excursion that has been massively modified for extreme off-roading action and it has been appropriately named Fordzilla.

As four wheel drive vehicles go, the Excursion has a reputation as being more of a concrete jungle machine, but thanks to a lift kit and some big mud tires, this heavy hitter has no problem moving through the deep ruts and thick mud.

With those falling prices, consumers are once again flocking to dealerships all over to pick up larger and larger SUVs and trucks. The question then becomes, should we start building things like the Excursion again?

One memorable development trip was to Denver in November. The weather was fine in town and the forecast didn’t say anything about snow. We needed to drive over the Continental Divide at the Eisenhower Tunnel, which is west of Denver on I-80. My partner’s truck was an 6.0L F-250 4×4 towing a 6×12 trailer. I […] More »