RAYS’ D108 from their off-road lineup is built to look aggressive and back it up with motorsport-derived traction and weight tech. When RAYS decided to go off-road, the natural question was whether that pedigree would actually translate to the trail. The D108, the newest release in the RAYS Offroad Wheels lineup, is the company’s clearest answer yet.
Mitsubishi’s flagship Outlander PHEV Exceed Tourer promises plug-in power and premium comfort, but does it live up to the hype? After a week of testing — including fully depleting the battery to see how the hybrid system really behaves — the range figures proved almost too good to believe. From a luxe leather cabin to a five-star ANCAP rating, here’s what stood out, and where Mitsubishi still has work to do.
There’s a moment every first-timer at Silver Lake talks about later. You crest a rise, momentum still building, sand kicking off the tires — and then the dune drops away and there’s nothing ahead but blue. Lake Michigan, stretching to the horizon, with your rig hanging at the top of a 100-foot wall of sand. It’s the kind of view that turns a weekend trip into an annual tradition, and it’s exactly why the Silver Lake Sand Dunes keep pulling ORV owners back to the west side of Michigan.
Communication is one of those things you don’t think about until you don’t have it. A dropped signal at the wrong moment on a remote trail, a dead battery on day three of a backcountry run, a mic that garbles every other word in the rain. After running the Rocky Talkie Expedition Radio alongside its Waterproof Hand Mic and Universal Mount in our Sprinter van, we can say it solves that problem about as well as a handheld radio can.
