Posts from ‘Pickup Trucks’
No kidding, Hummer is back–or at least the name is. Read on…
When General Motors dropped the Hummer brand from its lineup at the end of 2010, few could have imagined the nameplate would ever make a comeback. Hummer was so closely associated with excessive consumption and short-sighted corporate management that the moniker would seem forever doomed to the ashcan of automotive history.
Test Drive: 2019 Honda Ridgeline
2019 Honda Ridgeline RTL-E in Lunar Silver Metallic
2019 Honda Ridgeline AWD RTL-E
Class: Compact Pickup
Miles driven: 322
Fuel used: 16.1 gallons
2019 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 Bison in “Red Hot” red
2019 Chevrolet Colorado 4WD ZR2 Bison Crew Short Box
Class: Compact Pickup
Miles driven: 217
Fuel used: 10.4 gallons
2019 GMC Canyon Denali 4WD Crew Cab in Smokey Quartz Metallic (a $495 option)
2019 GMC Canyon Denali 4WD Crew Cab
Class: Compact Pickup
Miles driven: 371
Fuel used: 17.2 gallons
2019 Chevrolet Silverado 4WD LT in “Red Hot” red
2019 Chevrolet Silverado 4WD LT Double Cab
Class: Large Pickup Truck
Miles driven: 703
Fuel used: 37.0 gallons
Test Drive: 2019 GMC Sierra 1500 AT4
2019 GMC Sierra 1500 AT4 Crew Cab in Red Quartz Tintcoat (a $595 option)
2019 GMC Sierra 1500 AT4 Crew Cab
Class: Large Pickup Truck
Miles driven: 347
Fuel used: 19.8 gallons
Review Flashback! 2011 Dodge Dakota
2011 Dodge Dakota
Marketing executives use the term “white space” to refer to an area of a given market segment (say, pickup trucks) in which no product yet exists. If you think about 3M’s 1977 rollout of the Post-it Note, you’ll get the idea.
Photo Feature: 1953 Dodge B-4-B-116
1953 Dodge B-4-B-116
Note: The following story was excerpted from the February 2011 issue of Collectible Automobile magazine
By Don Sikora II
Back in 1953, trucks were nearly always used for work. Dodge recognized this and attempted to tailor its truck offerings to every possible need.
Does Tesla’s Cybertruck (bottom) echo the designs of the Delorean DMC-12 (top left) and/or the largely forgotten ARK II truck?
We’ve seen this truck someplace before…
Riding the coattails of the media buzz following the 2019 Los Angeles Auto Show press days, electric-car manufacturer Tesla hosted an invitation-only reveal event last night for its forthcoming electric pickup: the Cybertruck.
First Spin: 2020 Nissan Titan
2020 Nissan Titan
In a class that divides roughly 2.4 million annual sales between just six entries with average transaction prices reaching $48,000, Nissan’s Titan has long run a distant last. While it’s unlikely this recent update will change that, it may well result in a bigger slice of this very lucrative pie.
