Heavy Haulers
Full-size pickups, as the EPA certifies them.
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When the all-new Silverado arrived for 1999, GM kept building the old heavy-duty GMT400 trucks alongside it for two more years before the GMT800 HD finally replaced them in 2001.
This Silverado swept both major truck awards in its debut year — North American Truck of the Year and Motor Trend's Truck of the Year, same truck, same year.
Ford was so unsure buyers would accept the radically redesigned 1997 F-150 that it kept building and selling the old 1996 truck alongside it for months.
This was the last F-150 you could ever order with a manual transmission or the Flareside bed — both quietly disappeared from the lineup after 2008.
This F-150 generation dropped the manual transmission for the first time ever — and its Flareside bed, retired at the end of 2009, was the last factory stepside pickup bed built, period.
This F-150’s 4WD hubs were designed to fail safe — if the vacuum system that unlocks them ever gave out, they defaulted to locked 4WD instead of leaving the driver stranded in two-wheel drive.
This F-150 scored two five-star ratings from NHTSA in crash tests, but a flat "Poor" from the insurance industry's own IIHS frontal test. Same truck, opposite verdicts.
When this F-150 generation dropped its stepside Flareside bed at the end of 2009, it closed out an era — no major automaker has offered a factory stepside bed since.
When this GMT900 Sierra launched for 2007, GM kept selling the outgoing truck alongside it, badged "Classic," so buyers could choose old or new side by side on the same lot.
This Sierra kept rolling off the line for a full extra year after its replacement arrived - badged "Classic" in 2007 just to tell the two generations apart on dealer lots.
Toyota showed it as the T150 until Ford sued over the likeness to the F-150, and the production truck was renamed Tundra.
A Louisiana owner put over a million miles on his 2007 Tundra in eight years; Toyota gave him a new truck and took his apart to study it.
Trucks built by this outfit aren't just dressed-up Fords — Roush is registered as the vehicle's actual manufacturer of record, and some carry a Roush factory warranty instead of a Ford one.
Niche aftermarket performance truck, limited production numbers with enthusiast ownership helping survival. About 900 on North American roads today (estimate).