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Get your facts straight - they're old man trucks. (yeah, I drive a chev.)
Ram 1500 claims Canadian Truck King crown – again!
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Get your facts straight - they're old man trucks. (yeah, I drive a chev.)
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I have a 2015 Ford 350 and 2016 Dodge 1500.
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Here's more on the 2017 Motortrend Truck of the year competition:
At their core, pickup trucks are big, rugged cars with big boxes tacked on the back. They can perform big and important tasks, such as tugging a boat to a Shasta Lake bachelor party. Or the more mundane chore of moving your compadre's couch in exchange for pizza. It's the storylines we as drivers weave that make the pickup so fascinating.
This year's Truck of the Year stable of all-new or significantly revised trucks includes the gasoline-engine versions of the Nissan Titan. It's not quite the half-ton household nameplate as the Silverado, Ram 1500, or F-150. It also has taken more than a decade for the second-generation Titan to come into being.
And although Nissan is flashing the underdog card, we have the perennial heavyweight F-150, too. It flaunts a new EcoBoost V-6 and 10-speed automatic transmission. Fast fact: Three previous iterations of the F-150 were named our Truck of the Year during the first-generation Titan's lifespan.
Anchoring the weighty end of the seesaw are the frenemies Ford Super Duty and Ram Heavy Duty. One (Ram) was the first to touch 900 lb-ft of torque for a mainstream vehicle, and it boasts a ridiculous maximum towing number (31,210 pounds). The Super Duty, overhauled for the first time since the first time Monica Lewinsky was a trending topic, throws down the gauntlet with even more twist and trailering ridiculousness (925 lb-ft and 32,500 pounds on the F-450).
Two disturbers of the truck peace are present, as well. The five-eighths-ton tweener Nissan Titan XD returns for a second straight year, this time with a burly gas V-8 to complement the rorty Cummins V-8 we've already tested. The Honda Ridgeline, a big disrupter in the small-truck arena and the 2006 TOTY winner, continues forging its own unruly path with unibody assembly, multilink rear suspension, and standard front-wheel drive.
Our bumper-pull typical trailer weights established by class are back—3,000 pounds for the Ridgeline, 7,000 pounds for the conventional light-duty (plus Titan XD), and 10,000 pounds for three-quarter-ton and up. A 30,000-pound gooseneck trailer makes a special appearance, as does a 7,500-pound skid-steer loader/trailer combo that we towed on the fun portion of Arizona's Highway 68, aka SAE J2807's Davis Dam grade. After two weeks packed with instrumented testing, rigorous driving and evaluating, and downhome tailgating, we arrive at the 2017 Motor Trend Truck of the Year.
Watch the 2017 Motor Trend Awards LIVE on November 14 at 7:30 p.m. PT, and don't miss all the latest Car, Truck, and SUV of the Year content at MotorTrendAwards.com!
At their core, pickup trucks are big, rugged cars with big boxes tacked on the back. They can perform big and important tasks, such as tugging a boat to a Shasta Lake bachelor party. Or the more mundane chore of moving your compadre's couch in exchange for pizza. It's the storylines we as drivers weave that make the pickup so fascinating.
This year's Truck of the Year stable of all-new or significantly revised trucks includes the gasoline-engine versions of the Nissan Titan. It's not quite the half-ton household nameplate as the Silverado, Ram 1500, or F-150. It also has taken more than a decade for the second-generation Titan to come into being.
And although Nissan is flashing the underdog card, we have the perennial heavyweight F-150, too. It flaunts a new EcoBoost V-6 and 10-speed automatic transmission. Fast fact: Three previous iterations of the F-150 were named our Truck of the Year during the first-generation Titan's lifespan.
Anchoring the weighty end of the seesaw are the frenemies Ford Super Duty and Ram Heavy Duty. One (Ram) was the first to touch 900 lb-ft of torque for a mainstream vehicle, and it boasts a ridiculous maximum towing number (31,210 pounds). The Super Duty, overhauled for the first time since the first time Monica Lewinsky was a trending topic, throws down the gauntlet with even more twist and trailering ridiculousness (925 lb-ft and 32,500 pounds on the F-450).
Two disturbers of the truck peace are present, as well. The five-eighths-ton tweener Nissan Titan XD returns for a second straight year, this time with a burly gas V-8 to complement the rorty Cummins V-8 we've already tested. The Honda Ridgeline, a big disrupter in the small-truck arena and the 2006 TOTY winner, continues forging its own unruly path with unibody assembly, multilink rear suspension, and standard front-wheel drive.
Our bumper-pull typical trailer weights established by class are back—3,000 pounds for the Ridgeline, 7,000 pounds for the conventional light-duty (plus Titan XD), and 10,000 pounds for three-quarter-ton and up. A 30,000-pound gooseneck trailer makes a special appearance, as does a 7,500-pound skid-steer loader/trailer combo that we towed on the fun portion of Arizona's Highway 68, aka SAE J2807's Davis Dam grade. After two weeks packed with instrumented testing, rigorous driving and evaluating, and downhome tailgating, we arrive at the 2017 Motor Trend Truck of the Year.
Watch the 2017 Motor Trend Awards LIVE on November 14 at 7:30 p.m. PT, and don't miss all the latest Car, Truck, and SUV of the Year content at MotorTrendAwards.com!
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[FONT="] It was also judged the best among four entries in the full-size ½-ton category. Ram also topped the field in the full-size ¾-ton category with the Ram 3500
sooo uhhh a one ton beat the 3/4.... imagine that[/FONT]
sooo uhhh a one ton beat the 3/4.... imagine that[/FONT]
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