The 1978 Dodge Lil’ Red Express arrived at a moment when performance was supposed to be dead, yet it managed to outrun the era’s most vaunted sports cars and muscle machines. Instead of quietly ...

Thanks to an emissions loophole that allowed it to skip a catalytic converter, the Dodge sport truck made way more power, too.

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 ...