Truck Reviews

“This car is ‘sweet,’” one of our group enthused to Lincoln marketing, sales and service director Michael Sprague after our day-long sojourn over the mountains and down the California coast from San Francisco to Carmel. He seemed about ready to buy one. Remember not that long ago when Cadillac was cool and Lincoln was lame?

We here at Truck Trend pride ourselves on being the best at everything we do. And we feel strongly that we put on the best Pickup Truck of the Year event in the industry. Our testing methods are thorough, objective, fair, and transparent. Knowing that there can be a lot of information to digest when

Looking from the outside in, our annual Pickup Truck of the Year test may appear as if we’re just a bunch of hooligans doing burnouts and donuts in brand-new pickups for a week. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Sure, some adolescent shenanigans take place, usually for the sake of photography, but what isn’t

Pickup Truck of the Year doesn’t happen in a vacuum—it requires the involvement of dozens of people and agencies spread all across the country, and we’d be remiss if we didn’t at least give them a shout-out. First and foremost, we must say thank you to the men and women who make up the marketing

  General Vehicle/model Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LTZ Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD Custom Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD LTZ Ford Ranger Lariat FX4 Base price $52,790 $45,195 $64,785 $39,760 Price as tested $62,020 $48,420 $73,265 $44,785 Engine Type Turbocharged, common rail-injected diesel I-6 Naturally aspirated, direct-injected gasoline V-8 Turbocharged, common rail–injected diesel V-8 Turbocharged, direct-injected I-4 Displacement 3.0L 6.6L

When we judge Pickup Truck of the Year, we try our best to be impartial and to avoid mob mentality. We evaluate each truck based on its own merits—not our personal penchants or preconceptions—and we feel like we do a decent job of giving each pickup a fair shot. That’s what sets Truck Trend’s award

Our Pickup Truck of the Year scoring method uses seven weighted categories as the means to declaring a winner. The rundown is as follows: 15 percent Highway Performance (vehicle handling, ride quality, steering feel, NVH, and such), 15 percent Towing and Hauling (how the vehicle reacts with a class-specific weighted trailer and maximum payload), 15

Ford made waves in mid-2019 by introducing the world to a new model in the Super Duty lineup: the F-250 and F-350 Tremor. Those of us who have been around trucks—specifically Ford trucks—for some time immediately conjured up memories of the Ranger and F-150 Tremor models of days gone by. Those past Tremor models boasted