Our friends at Four Wheeler magazine have spoken and their choice for Pickup Truck of the Year is the new 2010 Ram Power Wagon (formerly the Dodge Ram Power Wagon), which narrowly beat the all-new 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor for the honor.
Selecting the Ram Power Wagon as the winner may come as a surprise to those expecting the all-new Raptor to come out on top. The Raptor has drawn near-consistent accolades for breaking new ground in off-road capability for a pickup truck.
According to Four Wheeler’s technical editor, Sean Holman, the fight between the two trucks was incredibly close but the Power Wagon’s superior trail performance in multiple off-road scenarios helped give it the win. The heavier Power Wagon also beat the Raptor in 0-to-60 mph performance and in the quarter-mile. Hardware features, like an integrated winch, front diff locker and powerful 5.7-liter Hemi engine solidified the Power Wagon’s position.
The staff of Four Wheeler magazine, photo credit: Ken Brubaker
“The new Power Wagon is quite nearly the best of all worlds,” said Four Wheeler Editor Douglas McColloch. “Its tall stance and body-on-frame architecture don’t get in the way of delivering a pleasant and relatively quiet highway ride. Its work-truck ethic is belied by its eight-lug axles and 10,000-pound tow rating. And once off the pavement, deep in the dirt, the Power Wagon can simply go places, and do things, that no other fullsize truck on the planet can. Locking differentials, a disconnecting front swaybar, and a 12,000-pound winch---delivered straight from the factory---will do that for you. All in all, the Power Wagon is a very worthy winner of our Pickup Truck of the Year competition.”
This year’s competitors included four new pickup trucks: The Ram Power Wagon, the Ram 2500HD Cummins, the Ford SVT F-150 Raptor, and the Toyota Tundra 4.6. To qualify for the competition, the trucks had to be entirely new or updated with substantial mechanical revisions from a previous model year.
We won’t spoil all the scores. We highly suggest you start by checking out Four Wheeler’s blog post and the full magazine review when it hits newsstands.
[Source: Four Wheeler Magazine]
