When C&D inaugurated the 5Best Truck awards for 2001, their concern was that they may run short of nominees in certain categories. There are fewer distinct truck models than there are cars, and pickups, vans, and most SUV’s are facelifted and redesigned less frequently than most cars.
But no worries. With light trucks having outselling cars for the first time in history in 2001, if you buy the federal governments fiction that the PT Cruiser was a truck, manufacturers around the world saturated the market with ever more “noncars”.
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