Several years ago 4x4 enthusiast interest in portal axles had been piqued, and rightly so. No other modification offers the same increase in ground clearance, lift, and the low gearing needed for ...

Mercedes-Benz has been in love with portal axles ever since it acquired the Unimog brand in 1950. The automaker bought out the business initially owned by German tool builder Boehringer and has since ...

Audi Sport wants to prove the Q6 E-Tron is a true off-roader, though not in standard guise. All you need is a set of purpose-built portal axles, it seems. “Let’s take the Q6 to Moab!” is not the first ...

Vik is the Co-Founder and former Editor at MotorAuthority, a leading U.S. website covering performance and luxury cars. Since 2025, he has contributed to CarBuzz, blending his engineering background ...

The U1300L sits among the most capable and sought-after Unimogs for recreational buyers, combining portal axles, locking ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

The Bronco was elevated to twin traction beam independent front suspension for the 1980 model year, and the Ford Motor Company went one step further with the sixth-generation Bronco. Twin A-arm ...

Do you look at an already-very off-road capable Ford Bronco and think it just needs a little bit more? Well, my strange friend, you are in luck. Thanks to the Ukraine-based company Werewolf Tech, ...

Three years ago we showed you Axletech’s bolt-on portal boxes for Dana 60 and Corporate 14-bolt axles (Aug. ’09). Since then we’ve been wondering whether they would ever go mainstream. Were they too ...

The first thing I learned about driving in Iceland is that leaving the road in a car is expressly illegal. The second thing I picked up is that some of the country’s “roads” are so gnarly that it ...

The overlanding trend may be played out, but no one told Audi — and they absolutely knocked it out of the park with this extreme off-road Q6 e-tron concept featuring genuine, high-clearance portal ...

The Q6 e-tron offroad concept is an Audi that’s ready for anything. An EV with an extra 6 inches of ground clearance, portal axles, and some massive tow hooks on the front and rear bumpers. This is an ...