Is anyone shocked? It was out to late to win the 2007 award.

The competition was the Super Duty Fords and HD GM products.

http://www.pickuptruck.com/

 

here we go, ready for the camshaft and tailgate failures excuses as to why they shouldnt get it

 

I'm thinking we are going to hear how Motor Trend has just taken the place of CR as "most useless automotive authority".

***sits back with bowl of popcorn***

 

What a joke.

 

M/T's TOTY and COTY aware are useless, as are C&D's 10Best lists and CR's "Recommended" lists.

Go back over M/T's COTY awards and just look at some of the absolute losers and bombs they have crowned. FYI, the award is also useless when a Ford wins.

 

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/6...-the-year.html

 

just look at my post about toyota and how there going to have to do like 11 mill car.truck recalls. truck of the year if you want a new engine after 30k due to oil sludge.

 

Hey buddy, why don't you check the DATEs on that website? all from 2001 2002.

You show me a 2008 Tundra with a 2002 V6 engine in, I will buy your gas for the next 3 years

 

I'm sorry, there is no way that is truck of the year, it is last in the big truck sales, including Ford, Chevy, Dodge and Toyota, I don't count Nissan because they aren't up in the 100,000 units yet. Also the new Tundra has had one big reliability problem after another.

 

Tundra...... named the........ motortrend...... Truck of the year..... OOO it hurts...

 

And how exactly a truck, which was introduced as 2007 model, can even compete for 2008 TOTY?

 

You all are missin da point.....it's not the truck thats the problem, it's the mag!

 

I agree Alchymist. I hold zero credibility for those rag mags.

 

Six significant defects makes a "Truck of the year"?

 

All the old car mags are irrelevant today. MT was "caught" decades ago giving "Car of the Year" to the manufacturer that purchased the most ads. As much CR bashing there is on FTE, at least they are not the (edit, "ladies of the night") that MT and the other commercial rags are.

I think a "deal" was made, so that GM got the 2007 and Toyota the 2008 truck award. It had something to do with the month of official introduction.

Jim