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Road Trip: Taking Our F-150 With Jet Ski In Tow From Los Angeles to Laughlin

27175215 Posted July 16 2009 01:01 PM by TT Editors

Leaving Los Angeles on a family vacation, we drove west on I-40, cutting across the desert on Highway 95 and then over Highway 163 into Laughlin, Nevada. Suitcases, chairs, coolers, pop-up canopy, three passengers, and a...

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Road Trip: Taking The New Ford F-150 To Pick Up an Old Daihatsu

16197626 Posted May 14 2009 10:05 AM by TT Editors

There are plenty of perfectly good reasons to leave Los Angeles and head to Northern California over a weekend. These include camping in Yosemite, sightseeing in San Francisco, or wine tasting in Napa. Picking up a...

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Get your 2009 TOTY Contender Wallpapers!

12151509 Posted December 23 2008 07:47 PM by TT Editors

Click here to down load our 2009 Truck of the Year testing wallpaper of the 2009 Ford F-150, Dodge Ram, Hummer H3T, and Suzuki Equator!

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Video: Ford F-150 Declared 2009 Truck of the Year

12053817 Posted December 17 2008 03:08 PM by TT Editors

If you haven't heard by now, we've crowned the Ford F-150 the 2009 Truck of the Year . It faced some fierce competition from the home team Dodge Ram at Chrysler's Arizona Proving Grounds, but in the end only one truck...

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2009 Motor Trend Truck of the Year Contender: Suzuki Equator

12012882 Posted December 15 2008 02:26 PM by TT Editors

When is a Suzuki not a Suzuki? When it's a Nissan, of course. Say hello to the 2009 Suzuki Equator, Suzuki's new compact truck, which is essentially a rebadged Nissan Frontier, a pickup that bowed in the 2005 model year.

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2009 Motor Trend Truck of the Year Contender: Hummer H3T

12007692 Posted December 15 2008 10:39 AM by Todd Lassa

The 2009 Hummer H3T is possibly the last, and by default the best Chevy-based Hummers. It rides on the crude Chevy Colorado/GMC Canyon crew cab architecture (with a wheelbase stretched nearly eight inches) and available...

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2009 Motor Trend Truck of the Year Contender: Ford F-150

12500173 Posted December 11 2008 03:49 PM by Frank Markus

Ford claims it sells more of its F-150 half-ton pickups to work and commercial customers than its competitors do, and Ford predicts this segment will grow to 45 percent of F-150 sales.

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2009 Motor Trend Truck of the Year Contender: Dodge Ram

12425800 Posted December 10 2008 12:36 PM by TT Editors

The new 2009 Dodge Ram now offers three different cab configurations, with the addition of an all-new Crew Cab model. In the past, Ram 1500s offered only a Regular Cab and Quad Cab model (the MegaCabs were available only...

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First Look! Dodge Ram Hybrid (Just kidding)

2009 Dodge Ram Engine Bay
11218452 Posted November 4 2008 09:11 AM by Edward A. Sanchez

Okay, I got your attention with my feeble attempt at a humorous headline. On this year's Truck of the Year testing, Motor Trend technical director Frank Markus observed how much open space was in the engine bay of the...

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Motor Trend's 2009 Truck of the Year Testing, Testing, Testing

11000318 Posted October 30 2008 10:29 AM by Mark Williams

If you haven't figured it out by now, we take our testing pretty seriously around here. As much as some of the haters out there want you to believe we don't drive any of the vehicles we write about and simply choose a...

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My Trip That Almost Didn't Happen

Truck of the Year, Day One - Drive Out
11202414 Posted October 30 2008 09:59 AM by Edward A. Sanchez

It always seems like life gets in the way of life sometimes. To illustrate my Yogi-ism, I'll share my minor drama that happened the weekend prior to this year's TOTY trip.

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2009 Motor Trend Truck of the Year: The Stage is set for a Celebrity Thunderdome

10713412 Posted October 24 2008 02:58 PM by Mark Williams

First we completed Motor Trend's Sport/Utility of the Year . Now we're putting the finishing touches on Motor Trend's Car of the Year story. And just recently, we finished the third of our major competitions: Motor Trend's...

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Reader's Letters: MORE TOTY QUESTIONS

2008 toyota tundra Posted April 4 2008 03:50 PM by TT Editors

I'm curious about your TOTY selection, the Toyota Tundra. Based on your criteria of superiority, significance, and value, I'm not sure how the selection occurred. Superiority? The recently redesigned Tundra already has...

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2008 Motor Trend TOTY Contender: Toyota Tundra

Toyota Tundra 4x4 CrewMax Limited Posted December 14 2007 05:46 PM by Mark Williams

Imagine if Toyota came out tomorrow and said, "We're going to make a better Corvette than Chevy, and we're going to build it just outside Bowling Green, Kentucky." That would take some huevos. But that's essentially what...

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2008 Motor Trend TOTY Contender: GMC Sierra HD

GMC Sierra 3500 HD SLT Posted December 13 2007 06:17 PM by Scott_Mortara

New looks and interior refinements make the all-new GMC Sierra Heavy Dutys serious contenders for our Truck of the Year competition -- and they feature the most powerful diesels in this class.

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