The Cadillac ATS won for Car of the Year and the Ram 1500 for Truck of the year.
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Four years ago, Motor Trend named the Toyota Tundra the 2008 Truck of the Year, calling it one of the biggest, strongest and most capable trucks on the market.
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This year, after almost 20 years covering the automotive industry, I was privileged to be appointed to the jury for the North American Car and Truck of the Year awards.
The winners of the much-anticipated 2013 North American Car and Truck of the year were announced today in Detroit at the opening of the press days for the North American International Auto Show.
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The Ford Focus, Hyundai Elantra and Volkswagen Passat are the three finalists for North American Car of the Year, and the BMW X3, Honda CR-V and Land Rover Range Rover Evoque are finalists for North American Truck of the Year.
Last year the 37-year-old Hindu truck driver became the envy of his friends when he married a 16-year-old Muslim from Assam, in India's north-east.
Chrysler hurried an overhauled version of its Ram truck into the market last year, and Ford plans a new version of the industry-bestselling F-150 next year.
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Ford is starting to gain share in the truck market in North America from last year due to the success of the F-series.
Boone Pickens, aims to create a network of 150 LNG stations at Flying J truck stops across the U.S. by the end of next year.
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GM's plug-in electric hybrid, the Volt, won the coveted North American Car of the Year award, while Ford won the award for best truck.
While many of us are busy ferreting out the best deals on everything from tablet computers and diamond earrings to talking Furby dolls and Chia Pets, experts advise that this is also the best time of the year to garner the deepest discounts on a new car or truck.
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The 60-year-old former truck driver has six pork shoulders on the grill of his 4-by-8-foot aquarium smoker, above the live flame from hickory and white oak.
Result: Operating profit (net before depreciation, interest and taxes) in the truck group rose to 15% of revenue last year, from 8% in 1996.
Last year, the best in the history of the truck industry, Cummins stumbled badly.
At today's prices, the added cost of an LNG-powered truck can be recaptured in a year or two, industry officials say.
He also put in place a vigorous international expansion plan that included the purchase last year of Volkswagen's Brazilian heavy-truck business and this year of a 25% stake in Sinotruk, China's biggest maker of heavy trucks.
One driver, according to the English-language Russian news channel RT, said his truck was pushed tens of meters by floodwaters, while the force of the floodwaters ripped a 10-year-old girl her mother's arms.
The 20-year-old medic was one of four servicemen who died when their truck was blown apart by a roadside bomb on April 2nd.
Last week, a 57-year-old Latvian truck driver was jailed for six months for lying about the amount of rest he had taken after being stopped by North Wales Police officers on the A55 at Bangor.
Untold numbers of Cubans flee the island every year, trying to cross to nearby Florida - including via a truck turned into a raft this week.
Tesla's Model S was named Motor Trend's Car of the Year, and after receiving the award Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that an electric pickup truck might be in the company's future.
When that gets up and running, as early as later this year, Navistar expects battery prices to fall and, with it, the cost of the truck.
Doug Springsteen grew up shadowed by the death of his five-year-old sister, Virginia, who was hit by a truck while riding a tricycle, in Freehold in 1927.
But Benjamin Swinburne, a media analyst at Morgan Stanley, is forecasting a surprisingly strong rebound in advertising, especially on television, because dealers' spending on car and truck ads has fallen implausibly low: down by 65% in the first quarter of 2009 compared with the same period last year.
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