Motor Trend 2015 Truck of the Year

FishOnOne wrote:


And why did Ford let the old Ranger design die on the vine? Perhaps the same reason GM and Dodge did the same thing to their mid size trucks.

BTW... It's very rare for me to see the smaller Toyota and Nissan trucks on the road these days.

GM redesigned the colorado/canyon back in the early-mid 2000's and from what I understood never made back their investment. I think Dodge and Ford looked at GM's failure to succeed in the compact truck segment and decided it wasn't worth risking big $$ in the segment. So when their current trucks got so long in the tooth they couldn't inexpensively be brought up to current standards, they killed the line rather than invest in a complete makeover. Even GM declined to continue to produce the Colorado/Canyon until the complete redesign was ready. That should speak volumes to anyone who would insist that the previous gen Colorado/canyon twins were a homerun hit for GM.