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BEHIND THE SCENES AT MOTORTREND’S 2022 TRUCK OF THE YEAR

Horse mats weigh 100 pounds. Speed limits at Honda Proving Center of California are brutally enforced. And the best Indian food in the Mojave Desert is found in a karaoke bar. Such are the lessons you learn while determining MotorTrend’s 2022 Truck of the Year winner.

Pickups have a job to do—several jobs, actually—and that’s what makes TOTY so challenging. One person’s family hauler is another’s towing and hauling workhorse. Trucks must be all things to all people, and we have two weeks to separate the can-dos from the can’t-dos.

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