Take a ride with us and find out how MotorTrend decides its infamous Truck of the Year! Who will take home the grand prize? Watch and find out!
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00:00 (car alarm blaring)
00:03 I'm Aaron Gold from Motor Trend.
00:04 This is the Motor Trend editorial staff,
00:06 and one of these pickups is gonna be named
00:08 our 2023 Truck of the Year.
00:10 Yeehaw!
00:12 This is Chris Walton from our test team.
00:14 What he does is put the trucks through our full battery
00:17 of instrumented testing
00:19 to measure acceleration, handling, and braking.
00:23 We have these severe off-road obstacles
00:26 so we can see just how capable they are in the dirt.
00:30 We've got these 100-pound horse mats
00:31 so we can load every truck up to its maximum cargo capacity
00:34 and do our performance tests with the truck fully loaded.
00:37 We use these heavyweight trailers
00:41 so we can see how the trucks cope with the load
00:43 in the flats and on the hills.
00:45 The 2023 Motor Trend Truck of the Year
00:48 is the Ford F-150 Lightning.
00:51 It does everything we expect from a traditional pickup truck
00:53 plus it's quicker, it's quieter, and it's more comfortable.
00:56 The fact that it uses no gasoline is an ad bonus.