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Ford's F-series pickups accept becoming the Barter of Texas appellation 14 times.
Ford's F-series pickups accept becoming the Barter of Texas appellation 14 times.
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The new SUV of Texas, Volvo's tidy XC60, won over TAWA associates with its technology and style.
The new SUV of Texas, Volvo's tidy XC60, won over TAWA associates with its technology and style.
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2018 Ram 2500 Ability Wagon has a accepted chip Warn winch rated at 12,000 pounds and its advanced amplitude bar disconnects with the columnist of a button.
2018 Ram 2500 Ability Wagon has a accepted chip Warn winch rated at 12,000 pounds and its advanced amplitude bar disconnects with the columnist of a button.
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Jeep's accepted Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon Recon was the champ in the Off-Road Account Agent class.
Jeep's accepted Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon Recon was the champ in the Off-Road Account Agent class.
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The Mazda's CX-5 is the new midsize CUV of Texas.
The Mazda's CX-5 is the new midsize CUV of Texas.
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Infiniti's QX30 was voted the new affluence CUV of Texas.
Infiniti's QX30 was voted the new affluence CUV of Texas.
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Work trucks like this 2018 F-150 XL with STX actualization amalgamation advice ability Ford's sales numbers.
Work trucks like this 2018 F-150 XL with STX actualization amalgamation advice ability Ford's sales numbers.
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Ford Motor Co.'s F-Series barter aggregation and TAWA admiral bless the F-150's back-to-back Barter of Texas wins.
Ford Motor Co.'s F-Series barter aggregation and TAWA admiral bless the F-150's back-to-back Barter of Texas wins.
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Toyota's 4Runner TRD Pro shows off its drift bowl as the SUV runs an off-road advance developed for this year’s Texas Barter Rodeo.
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2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio is the new CUV of Texas
2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio is the new CUV of Texas
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Another day of crossover account cartage dawns in the Texas Hill Country, breadth the Texas Auto Writers Assn. has captivated the Texas Barter Rodeo abounding years.
Another day of crossover account cartage dawns in the Texas Hill Country, breadth the Texas Auto Writers Assn. has captivated the Texas Barter Rodeo abounding years.
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The 2018 Ram 1500 Laramie Longhorn Southfork Edition aggregation cab 4x4 V8 will alpha at $54,420, afore destination.
The 2018 Ram 1500 Laramie Longhorn Southfork Edition aggregation cab 4x4 V8 will alpha at $54,420, afore destination.
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2018 Ram 1500 Laramie Longhorn Southfork
2018 Ram 1500 Laramie Longhorn Southfork
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2018 Ford F-150 wins Texas auto writers' bold of thrones
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Ford's F-150 has becoming a additional appellation as Barter of Texas.
At this week's Texas Barter Rodeo, the signature accident of the Texas Auto Writers Association (TAWA), the 2018 F-150 went up adjoin Ram, Nissan and Toyota full-size pickups, a hotly contested articulation that has apparent the popular, awful assisting trucks become fancier, added able and pricey.
2018 will be the 14th year the admirable F-Series has captivated TAWA's top title. But two out of the three better ceremoniousness the accumulation bestows went to imports.
The 2018 Volvo XC60 was called the SUV of Texas and an Italian newcomer, the 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio Ti Sport, was called the CUV of Texas by 70-plus TAWA journalists, bloggers, radio appearance hosts, producers and publishers who abounding the antagonism at a sprawling agronomical in the breathtaking Hill Country.
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Game of Thrones' truck photobomb scene isn't what it seems - CNET | game of thrones truck"With the new 2018 F-150, we're accustomed to acquire back-to-back Barter of Texas awards for F-Series, a acceptance that speaks to the barter team's adherence to our aggressive customers," said Raj Nair, admiral of Ford Motor Aggregation North America. "That's abnormally accurate actuality in Texas - barter basic of the world."
And while abundant has been fabricated of Ford's use of aluminum for abounding of its trucks, the Steel Bazaar Development Institute, the Rodeo's capital sponsor, had abounding befalling to advance the bulletin that steel's afraid around.
In accession to action account agent of Texas aloof rights, Volvo's overhauled 2018 XC60 additionally baffled the antagonism in the midsize affluence SUV class, and connectivity and powertrain categories.
"Following the assorted accolades bestowed aloft the full-size XC90 over the accomplished two Texas barter rodeos, our journalists accept been equally, if not more, afflicted by Volvo's all-new midsize XC60," said Nic Phillips, TAWA president. "The antithesis of achievement and ability in the T8's Twin Agent constituent amalgam powertrain, and, for the third time, Volvo's Sensus Connect, factored into the absolute amalgamation the XC60 embodies as the 2018 SUV of Texas."
Anders Gustafsson, admiral and CEO of Volvo Car USA, said, "Volvo is actual appreciative to get this absurd acceptance for the all-new XC60 from TAWA. The XC60 brings all of the award-winning technology from the XC90 to an alike added accepted bazaar segment."
TAWA affiliate and columnist Sue Mead is an off-road racer but it was that blatant new Italian pavement pounder that blanket the appearance for Mead and best of her TAWA colleagues. "I was aflame to see the new Alfa Romeo Stelvio win CUV of Texas," Mead said. "It was absolutely fun to drive and shows the across and ambit of this evaluation. It's a abundant Texas agent because it's upscale, has cachè and is new and exciting."
The Stelvio Ti has a turbocharged 280-horsepower four-cylinder agent commutual with a high-performance ZF 8-speed automated transmission. "You can drive it in a slower address and it feels like an accustomed CUV, but if you appetite to drive it in a added active manner, you actual bound accept why it was called afterwards an Italian canyon in the Alps acclaimed for its ambit turns. I like that duality," Mead said.
The Stelvio additionally was the top vote-getter in the affluence crossover account agent grouping.
Engineers and artefact planners from best of the accommodating manufacturers were on duke to acknowledgment questions and advice with the media's appraisal process, which looks at factors such as interiors, exteriors, value, achievement and claimed appeal. The 64 cartage activated and compared had a accumulated amount of about $4 million.
"The antagonism was abundantly angry at this year's Texas Barter Rodeo," Phillips said. "The after-effects in several categories were afar by the narrowest of margins, aloof tenths, and hundredths of a point, acknowledging aloof how aggressive the trucks and account cartage are today," Phillips said.
With bristles chic wins, Nissan was the cast with the best agent awards, including the accessible 2018 Titan Midnight Edition which won Full-size Auto of Texas, and Mazda swept the non-luxury CUV categories with its CX-3, CX-5 and CX-9 compact, midsize and full-sized contenders. (See aftereffect for abounding results. Neither Chevrolet, GMC nor Buick fielded entries in this year's Texas Barter Rodeo.)
Ram's abundant 2018 1500 Laramie Longhorn Southfork Edition, appear in Dallas aftermost ages at the Texas State Fair, helped Ram authority on to the affluence auto of Texas aloof rights, which the Laramie Longhorn won in 2016. The Southfork racked up the accomplished all-embracing autogenous score.
In the midsize auto category, Toyota's able-bodied Tacoma TRD Pro was addition echo winner.
"The Tacoma has congenital a acceptability for quality, backbone and reliability, and we're accustomed that TAWA has called the Tacoma TRD Pro Midsize Auto Barter of Texas for the additional beeline year," said John Myers, Toyota agent business and communications civic manager. "With the aperture of our Toyota Motor North America address in Plano in July, we are abnormally aflame to win this accolade as Texans."
Natan Tazelaar, an auto biographer who splits his time amid the Netherlands and the Houston area, had capital to appear the Texas Barter Rodeo aback he abutting the auto writers accumulation in 2014. This anniversary he assuredly fabricated it.
"Probably one of the best absorbing cartage I collection during accident was Ram's Ability Wagon and its 4x4 capabilities," Tazelaar said. It was the aboriginal time Tazelaar collection the distinctively adherent able pickup.
Tazelaar, a juror on the International Agent of the Year awards, added that while he's afflicted by the Ford F-150 Raptor, which took Off-road Auto of Texas honors, Ram's Ability Wagon got abbreviate shrift. "People accumulate talking about the Ability Wagon and the Raptor as if they're competitors but they couldn't be added apart. They should not accept been in the aforementioned class. The Raptor is a arid racer and the Ability Wagon is a Jeep Rubicon in a barter suit."
The Texas Auto Writers Association powered into its thirtieth year in 2017 and above Houston Chronicle auto biographer Tim Spell has a distinct, rear-view mirror booty on the anniversary abatement event, which he co-founded.
"When we launched the Texas Barter Rodeo in 1993, I couldn't accept envisioned that anytime there would be such a abundant focus on exceptional trucks, arranged with appearance commensurable to those of affluence sedans," said Spell.
During the two canicule of testing on and off road, the TAWA lath affiliate acclaimed "we evaluated pickups with amount tags about tripling those of high-end trucks aback in the day. I couldn't accept advancing imports such as Alfa Romeo and Volvo alike competing, abundant beneath claiming chic wins."
Full-disclosure: Jeff Yip biographer is a affiliate and above administrator of the Texas Auto Writers Association
2017 Texas Barter Rodeo results
» TRUCK OF TEXAS: 2018 Ford F-150
» SUV OF TEXAS: 2018 Volvo XC60
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Game of Thrones season 7 gaffe: Was a pick-up truck filmed in this ... | game of thrones truck» CUV OF TEXAS: 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio
» HEAVY-DUTY PICKUP TRUCK: 2018 Ram 2500 Limited Tungsten
» COMMERCIAL VEHICLE: 2018 Nissan Titan King Cab
» LUXURY PICKUP: 2018 Ram 1500 Laramie Longhorn Southfork Edition
» OFF-ROAD PICKUP: 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor
» FULL-SIZE PICKUP: 2018 Nissan Titan Midnight Edition
» MIDSIZE PICKUP: 2017 Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro
» BEST TECHNOLOGY: Nissan ProPILOT
» BEST CONNECTIVITY: Volvo XC60
» BEST POWERTRAIN: Volvo XC60
» OFF-ROAD UTILITY VEHICLE: 2017 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon Recon
»SUBCOMPACT SUV: 2017 Jeep Renegade Arid Hawk
» COMPACT SUV: 2018 Nissan Rogue Platinum
» MIDSIZE LUXURY SUV: 2018 Volvo XC60 Inscription
» COMPACT LUXURY SUV: 2018 Infiniti QX30 Exceptional AWD
» FULL-SIZE SUV: 2018 Dodge Durango SRT
» MIDSIZE SUV: 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trailhawk (sole entry)
» COMPACT SUV: 2018 Nissan Rogue Platinum
»FULL-SIZE CUV: 2018 Mazda CX-9 Grand Touring AWD
» MIDSIZE CUV: 2017 Mazda CX-5 Grand Touring
»COMPACT CUV: 2018 Mazda CX-3 Grand Touring FWD
» LUXURY CUV: 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio Ti
Source: Texas Auto Writers Association
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