{"id":23318,"date":"2019-01-17T13:30:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=23318"},"modified":"2019-01-17T13:30:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T17:30:19","slug":"detroit-auto-show-consumer-guide-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/detroit-auto-show-consumer-guide-trucks","title":{"rendered":"Detroit auto show consumer guide: Trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">There is no truck market in the world like the U.S., and no one makes trucks like\u00a0Detroit&#8217;s Big Three. Mid- and full-size pickups\u00a0sell nearly 3 million a year here, with\u00a0the full-size Ford F-Series\u00a0leading the way with some 900,000 sold.\u00a0The perennial best-seller\u00a0got some serious heat this year from competitors Ram 1500, Chevy Silverado\u00a0and GMC Sierra, which all introduced new steeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">The fast-growing midsize segment got more crowded as the Ford Ranger and Jeep Wrangler pickups elbowed in \u2014 but Toyota (which struggles\u00a0to sell its Texas-made full-size pickup) still dominates midsizers as the Tacoma towed a 23 percent\u00a0increase\u00a0in sales. Yee-haw!<\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-RfaoEVvPZvc\" class=\"story-asset image-asset\">\n<aside class=\"wide single-photo\"><div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/01\/16\/PDTN\/a68eccfe-be47-4db2-8441-e955c3574790-2019-0115-dm-naias1153.jpg?width=540&amp;height=&amp;fit=bounds&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Ram 2500 Power Wagon\" width=\"540\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/01\/16\/PDTN\/a68eccfe-be47-4db2-8441-e955c3574790-2019-0115-dm-naias1153.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/01\/16\/PDTN\/a68eccfe-be47-4db2-8441-e955c3574790-2019-0115-dm-naias1153.jpg?width=500&amp;height=333\" \/><span class=\"mycapture-btn-wrap\"><span class=\"mycapture-non-priority-horizontal-image mycapture-btn-with-text js-mycapture-btn js-mycapture-photo-asset\">Buy Photo<\/span><\/span>Ram 2500 Power Wagon\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Daniel Mears, The Detroit News)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><strong>Ram Heavy Duty\u00a02500-3500<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><strong>What it is:\u00a0<\/strong>Ram follows its North American Truck of the Year award-winning 1500 with the 2500 and 3500 heavy-duty trucks. The 3500\u2019s 6.7-liter turbo-diesel Cummins V-8 hits the magic 1,000 pound-feet of torque threshold \u2014 the most powerful truck ever. A Power Wagon trim is available with Jeep Wrangler-like off-road tricks like locking front and rear axles. But the big fella\u00a0isn\u2019t all brawn;\u00a0there is also a premium, black-trimmed 2500 Laramie Black edition that shows off the truck\u2019s quiet interior and air suspension.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Payne\u2019s take:\u00a0<\/strong>Ram Heavy Duty\u00a0numbers are eye-popping: 7,680-pound payload, 35,100-pound towing capability. It\u2019s 10 decibels quieter inside, Ram says, with best-in-class\u00a0.409 drag co-efficient. It has tire-pressure monitoring for up to 12 wheels including trailer, and a 12,000-pound Warren winch.<\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-RfaoEVv38Q0\" class=\"story-asset image-asset\">\n<aside class=\"wide single-photo\"><div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/01\/16\/PDTN\/0e1c514b-4386-47c4-ae2a-dea600547286-2019-0115-dm-naias1158.jpg?width=540&amp;height=&amp;fit=bounds&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Jeep Gladiator\" width=\"540\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/01\/16\/PDTN\/0e1c514b-4386-47c4-ae2a-dea600547286-2019-0115-dm-naias1158.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/01\/16\/PDTN\/0e1c514b-4386-47c4-ae2a-dea600547286-2019-0115-dm-naias1158.jpg?width=500&amp;height=347\" \/><span class=\"mycapture-btn-wrap\"><span class=\"mycapture-non-priority-horizontal-image mycapture-btn-with-text js-mycapture-btn js-mycapture-photo-asset\">Buy Photo<\/span><\/span>Jeep Gladiator\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Daniel Mears, The Detroit News)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><strong>Jeep Gladiator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><strong>What it is:\u00a0<\/strong>Detroit gets its first look at the long-awaited Jeep midsize pickup that debuted in Los Angeles last fall. Like the Ram Heavy Duty, it goes right at\u00a0Ford\u00a0for best-in-class metrics, boasting 7,650-pound towing capability and 1,600-pound payload capacity. The pickup will come in familiar Wrangler trims including premium Sahara and off-road Rubicon. It will be powered by a base Ecodiesel\u00a03.6-liter V-6 that grunts out 442 pound-feet of torque.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Payne\u2019s take:\u00a0<\/strong>Determined not to repeat the Scrambler debacle of the early &#8217;80s, the Gladiator is much more than a Wrangler with a bed. Jeep fortified the rail-frame structure to 212 inches in length to outfit a proper 60-inch bed. Jeep is late to a fast-growing midsize pickup segment swarming with Chevy Colorados and Toyota Tacomas, but Jeep has high expectations for this bruiser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no truck market in the world like the U.S., and no one makes trucks like\u00a0Detroit&#8217;s Big Three. Mid- and full-size pickups\u00a0sell nearly 3 million a year here, with\u00a0the full-size Ford F-Series\u00a0leading the way with some 900,000 sold.\u00a0The perennial best-seller\u00a0got some serious heat this year from competitors Ram 1500, Chevy Silverado\u00a0and GMC Sierra, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}