In the 1970s, Americans still looked to long-hood coupes and low sports cars when they talked about speed. Names like Corvette , Trans Am, and Camaro carried the glory from the muscle era into a ...

The Dodge Li’l Red Express Truck arrived at a strange moment in American performance history, when emissions rules had choked most muscle cars and carmakers were scrambling for loopholes. Dodge ...

Brett T. Evans has more than a decade of experience driving, writing about, and evaluating automobiles. His early career comprised writing about pre- and post-war classic cars, as well as late-model ...

When the Dodge Lil' Red Express Truck (LRE) hit the market in spring 1978, it was not just another trim package; it was a bold, chrome-laden protest against the performance-breaking environmental ...

There is ongoing debate about when the muscle car era ended, but we know for a fact that it was already over by the time Dodge introduced the Li'l Red Express pickup truck in 1978. It was a sad year ...

Actively reporting, writing, and editing on automotive news and since 2021, Dave has brought his acerbic wit and love of European car culture to brands such as HotCars, CarBuzz,and TopSpeed.

Only malaise-era kids will remember the Dodge Li'l Red Express pickup truck was the quickest performance car that America could muster in the post-oil-crisis economy. Just listen to these blistering ...

Chad has been a muscle car and classic truck lover since he could walk. The classic vehicles from the '60s and '70s are the best in his eyes, but he is more than willing to give the new technology a ...

The high-performance truck is back — but it isn’t new. One of the first of the breed dates back to the height of the Disco era, 1978, when high-performance cars had all but ceased to exist because of ...

Anyone interested in old-school American sheet metal knows—or at least, should know—about the Dodge Li’l Red Express. It was a hot-rod truck offered from the factory with a 360-cubic-inch V8 and twin ...

It looks we'll soon be seeing a modern interpretation of the 1978-1979 Dodge Lil' Red Express truck. The original truck was part of Dodge Trucks's "adult toy" promotion that included a few other ...