I liked your magazine until you insulted us by calling the Tundra the Truck of the Year! If my memory is correct, the Toyota came out only a few weeks after the Chevrolet Silverado, and I think probably because they knew if they came out sooner, in 2007, they couldn't get that claim.
My neighbor recently bought a Toyota and, not even a week old, it had rust showing. To be honest, I compared them side by side, and the fit and finish isn't even close. Chevrolet did its job well, and for your magazine to say the Toyota half-ton is a better truck then GM's version is insane. The Toyota is cheap from the moment you open the door to the time you close the tailgate. Admit it, you only gave Toyota that claim because it "worked the system" by introducing its truck weeks after GM did.
Andrew Hill
Kenosha, Wisconsin
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Dear Reader,
We would've liked to see the two compete in our Truck of the Year as well, and you are correct that they missed competing against each other by just a few weeks. As to your claim that we have any control over how a manufacturer "works" the system, we assure you, all we do is set the criteria they have to meet--that's a minimum sale number, on-sale date, and that it needs to be all-new or significantly revised. In the meantime, as the new F-150 and Ram are headed our way, you can bet we'll be putting all the new trucks against each other to settle the score once and for all...at least for this year.
- Truck Trend