Eric Solorzano’s garage is a working race shop that feels more like a church. Speed is worshipped here. So is cold beer, loud Santana, the love of friends and family, and the famously rough city of ...

The Baja Bug, a Volkswagen Beetle with lifted suspension, off-road tires, and rally-ready upgrades such as a roll cage and skid plates, has been a tradition in the off-road racing scene for more than ...

The race, which is roughly 1,000 miles, is described as being in a car wreck for 12 hours as drivers push ...

The influx of electric cars to the U.S. auto market has led manufacturers and buyers to start testing the capabilities of these vehicles in ever more elaborately extreme situations. Since introducing ...

Desert racing is a grueling bloodsport fueled by raucous internal combustion engines—that is, with the rare but growing exception of offroad EVs. In stark contrast to the thunderous gas-powered trucks ...

If you’ve ever thought about racing in Baja and wondered what it would be like, or maybe if you’ve already done it and want to be reminded what a desperate, rock-bashing hellfest it is, spend the next ...

(We are saying goodbye to 2023 by re-visiting our favorite posts from the last year. To see why we loved these stories, check out what we said about them here.) The Baja 1000 is among the most ...

Baja racing means high-stress driving and a lot of fun. MSU students design, build and race their own car, and learn a lot along the way. Every year, hundreds of hours are spent by a group of Michigan ...