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The shifty definition of “truck” for the NACOTY Truck of the year awards means that car-based vehicles like the Ford Explorer and Range Rover Evoque are eligible to win the “Truck of the Year Award” – but not for much longer.
The NACOTY jury has given crossovers an out, by re-branding the award as “Truck/Utility of the Year”. Let’s face it – if the award were restricted to just body-on-frame type truck or SUVs, the pool of candidates would be pretty limited. If you’re a die-hard truck guy, there’s still the Texas Truck Rodeo.
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F–kin’ Amateurs..
That dropcloth really tied the garage together did it not?
This is a very complicated case, Maude. You know, a lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-you’s. And, uh, lotta strands to keep in my head, man. Lotta strands in old Duder’s head. Luckily I’m adhering to a pretty strict, uh, drug regimen to keep my mind limber.
well, that’s just like, your opinion, man.
The ford abides…
“car-based vehicles like the Ford Explorer and Range Rover Evoque”
Is your point that the Jeep Cherokee also has always been a car? Is there a grandfather clause for the Cherokee that I am unaware of? Or is this just pointless semantics?
What car is the Cherokee or Grand Cherokee based on?
Or, to put it another way, what car can I buy that shares a platform with the Cherokee or Grand Cherokee?
You can buy a Mercedes ML after 2011. But yeah.
No… but there is a Ford Taurus or Lincoln MKS that you can buy as a relative to your Explorer, or a Ford Mondeo that you can buy as a complement to your Rangie.
Seriously, though, I think the point is that these cute-UVs were based on in-production car platforms. The Cherokee (XJ) and Grand Cherokee (ZJ-present) were not based on automobile platforms and were instead designed as utility vehicles.
So what? Shouldn’t utility be the measure of a utility?
Platforms Shalforms.
That’s not a truck. The F-150 is the truck of the year – every year. Ford IS the best in Texas
We’ve just finished the paperwork for our local Car-Of-The-Year, and the arguments about ladders versus unibodies never ends. On my side, I don’t see the point in separating the two anymore… except as an easy out for uncompetitive vehicles to garner an award or two.