Why did the Ford Ranger win?

The latest Ranger is so much more refined than the previous generation you would barely believe they shared a lineage. In the past, if you wanted a pickup with a nice interior, you needed to go shopping for a full-size. But the Ranger bucks that trend by offering a quality interior, keeping plenty of physical buttons and knobs to go along with the Ranger's easy-to-use touchscreen, and adding driver aids that we longed for on the previous generation.

"The new Ford Ranger packs full-size pickup capabilities in a midsize pickup footprint." — Steven Ewing, director, editorial content

The Ranger has come a long way in the last five years. The previous generation felt like it was sold in the U.S. as an afterthought. Thankfully, the most recent truck has been thoroughly reengineered from the ground up to be used hard. The Ranger packs tons of capability, including a maximum of 7,500 pounds of towing capacity and 1,805 pounds of maximum payload capacity when properly equipped. Few truck owners can claim to need more.