MotorTrend's 2023 Truck of the Year!

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!

Transcript

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.