Best Trucks

Few topics will inspire as much spirited discussion among men as the apparently innocent question, “What do you think is the best truck?”

Men become brand-loyal, fiercely partisan you could say. Chevy loyalists detest Fords and their owners; Ford partisans return the favor. Guys loyal to American brands above all others cannot for the life of them figure out why anyone would waste good American dollars on a Toyota or Nissan. Apparently, Europe has no trucks, because no one even can name a European truck except for the British and French guys who drive them—and most of them prefer Toyotas.

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The question, “What do you think is the best truck?” also begets more questions: Best for what? Best how? Most power and towing capacity? Best looks? Best off-road performance? Most reliable? Best for work? Do you count SUV’s and mini-vans in the discussions? No way can you count mini-vans; they’re just for chicks. Truck talk brings out the masculine in a man, but it still inspires more questions: You talkin’ dollar for dollar? You count fuel efficiency in that? What about diesels; you got a place for them? What’s my budget? You give me seventy-five grand, and I can show you a truck; know what I mean?

Truck-friendly websites have learned to categorize their “best-of…” analyses, and even with all that diplomacy, they still inspire controversy. At last count, the most objective, fair-minded truck site had its list broken into eleven separate categories, each one with a “best” and some honorable mentions.

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