Monstrously big. Rudimentarily basic. Robustly designed. A fortress on wheels. This is the HMMWV that rolls off the production line of the Red River Army Depot in Texas. The vehicles are being phased ...

In the April 1983 issue, Popular Mechanics followed a certain Army program very closely. Called the High-Mobility, Multipurpose, Wheeled Vehicle, or HMMWV, the program would finally supplant the ...

Jacob is a former Audi mechanic turned automotive journalist. His love for cars started the first time he held a Porsche 911 Hot Wheels car in his hands, and the very same car continues to fascinate ...

The military’s High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), or Humvee to most of us, is a rugged four-wheel drive vehicle designed and manufactured by AM General. In basic trim, the truck ...

A great joy of this car racket is finding examples of machines whose current lot in life is so far removed from its intent rolling off the assembly line that it might as well be referred to by a ...

Keep your hands loose on the wheel. I remind myself of this as we fly across a section of foot-deep ruts at 20 mph. You want to let the independent suspension do the work and give the steering wheel ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is keen to advance military technology as much as possible, including the government’s vehicles. As part of its new Ground X-Vehicle Technologies ...