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A abundant assignment barter has won Motor Trend’s coveted Barter of the Year appellation — an accolade the annual has rarely accustomed to a abundant assignment barter that occupies a baby alcove of the market.

The award, however, reflects the alteration way Americans appearance trucks. While pickups were accepted ancestors cars afore the contempo recession, barter makers are more absorption their efforts on automated and bartering markets. The AP reports, “Motor Trend said it has refocused the cost this year to accolade trucks with greater utility, as leisure barter buyers acquire abundantly bare the market. The annual said the new focus is reflected in the best of finalists.”

The 2010 Dodge Ram Abundant Assignment exhausted out the Ford F-150 SVT Raptor, a high-performance off-road barter congenital in bound quantities, as able-bodied as two cars aimed primarily at bartering buyers — the Toyota Tundra 4.6-liter plan barter and the Ford Transit Connect burden van.

Motor Trend explains, “Despite the furnishings of the Great Recession on personal-use barter sales, there is still appeal for pickups accessible to do harder work. The able barter bazaar has gotten smaller, but the guys who buy those pickups are angrily loyal to the segment-they charge the acute adequacy these aggressive haulers provide.”

With that in mind, they acclaim the Ram for its 17,500-pound towing capacity, a commuter berth they alleged “the best in its class,” and how simple the big Ram is to drive even if towing. “What is so absorbing about the able Ram is not alone how calmly it does all the tasks it’s congenital for, but aswell how simple it is on the driver,” MT writes.

Still, Autoblog notes, the Ram may acquire won the award, in part, because the acreage — bound to trucks decidedly redesigned for the 2010 archetypal year — was so small. “It arrives to bazaar a abounding year advanced of essentially new versions of Ford and General Motors’ able trucks,” they note. “As such, it will be the ascendant HD barter in about every class that affairs to able auto buyers, at atomic for a archetypal year or two.”

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