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Preorders Open for Ready to Rock, the story of RTR Vehicles Featuring Founder Vaughn Gittin Jr.
Formula Drift legend, off-road racing champion and founder of RTR Vehicles Vaughn Gittin Jr. authors the story of the brand ahead of its landmark partnership with Ford, featuring special guests and...

Formula Drift
Fresh Looks For 2026: RTR Vehicles Formula Drift Liveries
The wait is over. We’re pulling the covers off three all-new liveries for the 2026 Formula Drift season, and they might just be our most striking yet. Three cars. Three drivers. Three stories — all...

RTR Vehicles Off-Road
Full Podium Sweep for RTR Vehicles Off-Road Team at 2026 Mint 400
The Mint 400 has stood as one of the most iconic desert races in North America since it first began in 1968. Known as “The Great American Off-Road Race”, the event started as a promotional stunt fo...

Loren Healy
Dancing on Ice: Loren Healy’s Double Victory at FAT Ice Race Big Sky
The FAT Ice Race in Big Sky, Montana, is not your typical race weekend. It’s a collision of motorsport, style, and winter landscape, where high-performance machines carve across a purpose-built ice...

RTR News
A New Chapter in the Details: How We’re Evolving RTR Vehicle Serialization
Since day one, RTR Vehicles has been about more than building performance vehicles. Founded by Vaughn Gittin Jr., RTR was created to blend motorsports DNA with production vehicles you can actually ...

RTR Vehicles Off-Road
Battle Tested at King of the Hammers: RTR Vehicles Off-Road Takes on the Desert in 2026
Four Broncos. Three races. Two podium finishes. Countless hard-earned lessons. King of the Hammers once again proved why it stands as one of the toughest single-day off-road races, and the 2026 edi...

Mustang RTR Spec 5
From the Lens to the Driver’s Seat: Larry Chen and the Mustang RTR Spec 5
Some people experience cars through a camera lens. Others experience them from behind the wheel. Larry Chen has done both at the highest level, and more importantly, he’s driven just about everythi...

Bailey Campbell
RTR Vehicles Off-Road Debuts 2026 Ford Bronco Raptor Line Up
We’re entering the 2026 race season with the next evolution of our Bronco Raptor 4600 and Ford Bronco Raptor 4400 programs, unveiling four new race vehicles shaped by years of development, competit...

Ford Performance
2025 Formula Drift Championship Celebration at the RTR Lab
Step inside the 2025 Formula Drift Championship Celebration at the RTR Lab, a invite-only event brought together members of the RTR community under one roof to celebrate James Deane and support the...

Formula Drift
RTR Vehicles Drift Team Announces O’Reilly Auto Parts as Title Partner for James Deane’s 2026 Formula Drift Season
The RTR Vehicles Drift Team is kicking off the 2026 season with a major partnership milestone. Heading into the new year of Formula Drift competition, the team proudly welcomes O’Reilly Auto Parts ...

Ford Bronco RTR
New Ford Bronco RTR Brings High-Speed Off-Road Performance, Style and Attitude to the Wild
Available to all, not for everyone: Inspired by competition in Johnson Valley, California, the new Bronco RTR packs RTR design attitude and two levels of capability for high-speed off-road performa...

Built by RTR
James Imagines the Ultimate Mustang RTR Spec 1 with the Built by RTR Program
Some builds turn heads. Others stop people in their tracks. When James rolled his 2021 Mustang RTR Spec 1 up to the RTR Lab in Charlotte, North Carolina, he had one goal: turn his vehicle into a ma...

Gift Guide
RTR Vehicle’s 2025 Holiday Gift Guide For Every Automotive Enthusiast
Have someone who’s hard to shop for? Looking for your own gift ideas? From small stocking stuffers to all-new RTR Vehicles gear, this guide makes gifting easy. Let’s get into it!

Baja 1000
RTR Vehicles and Ford Racing Conquer the Baja 1000
The Baja 1000 is not just a race. It is one of the most brutal, unforgiving endurance challenges on the planet. Baja, Mexico, serves up everything from wide-open desert to rock fields, silt beds, e...

Ben Hobson
From Pell City with Love: Ben Hobson's Full-Circle Drift Homecoming
While most of us can only dream of drifting around the streets of our hometown legally in any vehicle, RTR Drift Team Formula Drift driver Ben Hobson recently made this dream his reality in the lat...
