Future & Concept Trucks

The traditional pickup is moving rapidly beyond its leaf-sprung, boxy boundaries, and what were once SUVs have been replaced with car-based, street-minded crossovers.... more

The Denali XT has a unibody architecture and is rear-wheel drive but falls into the Sport-Utility Truck (SUT) category, meaning it straddles the lines between a traditional SUV and pickup truck.... more

Toyota returns to its compact truck roots with its latest concept vehicle A-BAT (Advanced Breakthrough Aero Truck) making its world debut at the North American International Auto Show in January.... more

Ford's 2009 F-150 has been lurking around largely undisguised and we've got the photos!... more

When Jeep showed off its JT Concept to the media earlier in the summer, the general feeling was that they should build it and they should build it now. It appears that the suits in Auburn Hills have listened.... more

With the Adrenalin pickup canceled, Ford's in-house hot-shop has no work.... more

"Gladiator" was the name of Jeep pickups in the 1960s, but this concept actually harkens back further to the more militaristic Jeep Truck of the 1950s. In essence, the Gladiator marries a Wrangler front end with a very small extended cab and a seven-foot cargo... more

A two-door H3 with a bed, this truck would boast excellent off-road capability and offer a practical cargo area when it goes on sale in 2009. After the loss of the H1, Hummer is desperate to expand its lineup beyond the H2 and the H3. A pickup serves as a good... more

With Ford's market share in the U.S. slip-sliding away, president of the Americas Mark Fields has said the company has to "change or die."... more

Here they are, the 59 hottest cars, trucks, SUVs, and concepts headed your way in 2006 and beyond.... more

This is the truck Detroit has been nervously anticipating for years; the big kahuna of the Chicago Auto Show, the big Toyota Tundra.... more

The gloves are off at Toyota. After a couple of false starts, Toyota now has a laser-lock on the cash cows of Chrysler, GM, and Ford: full-size trucks.... more

Honda is rumored to be testing a new aluminum-block V-8 in the Ridgeline pickup truck.... more

Delayed due to Ford's financial constraints, the heavy-duty workhorse truck range is ultimately destined to receive major changes for 2007.... more

Is it folly to pull forward big, fuel-inefficient trucks to bring in cash flow, just as SUV sales seem to be waning due to gas prices and crossover competition?... more

After showing a concept preview of the next Explorer Sport Trac at the Detroit Auto Show, Ford gave an early look at a high-performance SVT version of the Sport Trac at New York. The Sport Trac Adrenalin (the Adrenalin name may or may not be retained for the p... more

"Gladiator" was the name of Jeep pickups in the 1960s, but this concept actually harkens back further to the more militaristic Jeep Truck of the 1950s. In essence, the Gladiator marries a Wrangler front end with a very small extended cab and a seven-foot cargo... more

At nineteen feet in length and seven feet in width, the FTX concept, precursor for the next Tundra, bluntly states that Toyota is done with the "seven-eights-scale" truck. While the next Tundra won't be this wild, it will be big, powerful, and full of techno... more

Though not direct competitors, they're both truck-based 4x4s with monster motors.... more

Retro/heritage design is a risk-filled endeavor. Do it right, and you've got a hit that comes complete with its own nostalgia-driven marketing program. Screw it up, and you may have an ill-conceived product that everyone will see as little more than a ghost of its former self.... more