{"id":35550,"date":"2026-01-18T13:34:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=35550"},"modified":"2026-01-18T13:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:34:42","slug":"how-north-american-car-truck-and-utility-of-the-year-winners-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/how-north-american-car-truck-and-utility-of-the-year-winners-did-it","title":{"rendered":"How North American Car, Truck and Utility of the Year winners did it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/09\/19\/PDTN\/86242587007-nactoy-trophy.jpg?width=660&amp;height=372&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"The NACTOY awards are among the industry's most prestigious honors. They're given at the Detroit Auto Show in January.\" width=\"541\" height=\"305\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The NACTOY awards are among the industry&#8217;s most prestigious honors. They&#8217;re given at the Detroit Auto Show in January. Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Detroit<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 The envelope, please. . .<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The North American Car, Truck and Utility Vehicle of the Year (NACTOY) awards held their big annual awards ceremony to Wednesday to open the Detroit Auto Show. After a deluge of electric product in recent years, the awards marked a return to bread-and-butter gas-powered muscle and utility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Winner of Car of Year was the gas-fired Dodge Charger Sixpack coupe in a nail-biter over the Honda Prelude and Nissan Sentra. Ford has dominated Truck of the Year honors since 2021 and \u201926 was no different with a runaway win by the Maverick Lobo. In another blowout, the Hyundai Palisade took home the Utility of the Year honor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2026\/01\/14\/winners-2026-north-american-car-truck-and-utility-of-the-year\/88173047007\/\"><em>Read the full story here<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\">\n<div class=\"gnt_em_img_ccw gnt_em_img_ccw__cap gnt_em_img_ccw__crd\" data-c-caption=\"The NACTOY awards are among the industry's most prestigious honors. They're given at the Detroit Auto Show in January.\" data-c-credit=\"Henry Payne, The Detroit News\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NACTOY awards are among the industry&#8217;s most prestigious honors. They&#8217;re given at the Detroit Auto Show in January. Henry Payne, The Detroit News Detroit\u00a0\u2014 The envelope, please. . . The North American Car, Truck and Utility Vehicle of the Year (NACTOY) awards held their big annual awards ceremony to Wednesday to open the Detroit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35550"}],"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=35550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35552,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35550\/revisions\/35552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}