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PHOTOS: 2017 Chevrolet Silverado sports possible Colorado-like facelift in spy shots

[imagebrowser id=236] Unveiled with the 2014 models, the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 went seven years before its latest redesign. Possibly inspired by the positive response the truck maker has seen with its midsize 2015 Colorado, it looks like Chevy won’t be waiting quite as long on the next Silverado facelift. According to a report from Truck Trend, […]

April 20, 2015

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The upcoming Mercedes pickup won’t be a “fat cowboy truck,” Daimler chief says

Just in case the recent announcement of a “midsize truck,” wasn’t a clear enough declaration, with one sentence during an interview with Car, Daimler’s chief of commercial vehicles has made Mercedes-Benz’s intentions in developing its first pickup truck crystal clear. “We are not going to develop a fat cowboy truck for North America,” Daimler’s Volker Mornhinweg told the magazine. “…Modern […]

April 16, 2015

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Ram would like to offer a midsize pickup with “incredible” fuel economy, but says it’s a costly puzzle

GM has revived the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon. Ford has brought back the Ranger to the world market. But, as much as it would like to, Ram Truck doesn’t see a future for a Dodge Dakota replacement, the company’s midsize pickup that stopped production in 2011. According to an interview Automotive News did with Ram Truck leader Robert Hegbloom during […]

April 9, 2015

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Illinois bill would fine diesel pickup drivers $5,000 for “Rollin’ Coal”

It looks cool on the dragstrip, but rollin’ coal on the street? Not so much. At least not to those who enjoy clean air. Modifying air-pollution (smog) controls, or anything that adversely affects the exhaust output of street-driven vehicles, has been a federal offense for decades. But there are still those who disregard the Environmental Protection […]

April 8, 2015

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Mercedes to launch a luxury midsize pickup based on the Nissan Frontier by 2020

Just when we thought Ford’s F-150 Platinum, GMC’s Sierra Denali and Ram’s Laramie editions were the top of the luxury truck rock as one could get, along comes Mercedes announcing they are entering the pickup market. Those lads across the pond that have given us wonderful German luxury cars, M-Class SUVs, and the Sprinter vans now […]

April 2, 2015

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Jeep’s Red Rock Responder is the pickup/Wrangler hybrid we’ve always wanted, one of 7 off-roading concepts (PHOTOS)

No. 14 Story in 2015 « No. 15 No. 13 » [imagebrowser id=226] This week at the Easter Jeep Safari, an annual nine-day off-road trail event in Utah, Jeep unveiled 7 concept vehicles. And while several of them are excellent, there’s one in particular that we’d be pretty psyched to see go into production. The […]

April 2, 2015

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Ram unveils Texas Ranger 1500: a concept truck Chuck Norris would give 2 roundhouse kicks up (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

[imagebrowser id=221] Look, there’s nothing in Ram’s announcement of the Texas Ranger 1500 that explicitly says the truck was designed in honor of the classic 1990s action show “Walker, Texas Ranger”. In fact, the announcement spends most of its time talking about the real Texas Rangers’ long history as one of the proudest law enforcement agencies in the […]

March 30, 2015

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Make any pickup a Cat truck with Caterpillar’s new auto accessories

Until that glorious day when Caterpillar agrees to miniaturize the amazing front end of the CT660 and put it on a pickup, those wishing the smaller trucks in their fleet better matched the yellow iron and vocational trucks in their fleet will have to make due with accessorizing. Luckily, Cat has made that a lot […]

March 26, 2015

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Ford F-150 insurance costs aren’t going up and that new aluminum body might actually be why they begin to drop

When Ford released the 2015 F-150 into the wild, some predicted that insurance costs on the truck could increase over prior years. Unsubstantiated or not, many thought durability and repair cost concerns over the truck’s new aluminum body would cause insurers to up their monthly premiums. But as customers have taken delivery of their new F-150s […]

March 25, 2015

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Ram unveils 2 limited edition 1500 Sport pickups (PHOTOS)

[imagebrowser id=217] Ram has taken the wraps off a couple of new pickups that won’t be around for very long. These new 2015 Ram 1500 Sport models will be limited to a production run of 1,000 each and come in two shades: Ignition Orange and all-black. Ram says the black model is very similar to […]

March 23, 2015

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Ford retains V8 engine roar in 2015 F-150 V6 using a bit of audio wizardry and the truck’s speakers

Though Ford engineers actually figured out a way to get V8 power out of the EcoBoost V6 engine in the 2015 F-150, what they weren’t able to figure out was how to make a V6 produce sound like a V8. Knowing that certain customers might miss that rumble and roar, Ford engineers came up with a solution […]

March 19, 2015

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REVIEW: 2015 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel Tradesman achieves work truck nirvana with comfort, unbelievable fuel economy

Call it plain vanilla. Call it a stripper. Call it bare-bones. It’s all of those. One thing the 2015 Ram 1500 Regular Cab EcoDiesel isn’t, though, is wimpy. The truck I recently spent a few days driving the city streets, interstates and mountain roads around Phoenix, Arizona and Laughlin, Nevada is the epitome of bland. […]

March 17, 2015