In Longview, the heart of east Texas pickup culture, car dealers say 70% of their sales are pickups.
At the Ford display, we talked to folks wandering between the big green pickup, the muscle car and the hydrogen electric hybrid.
Behind banks of snow along East Tudor Road, Lisa Albecker recently ran her mud-spattered Ford F-150 pickup through an almost empty car wash.
Here in the United States, though, midsize pickup sales have languished and other car makers have abandoned the segment.
The light-duty car category excludes some pickup trucks that are marketed to consumers, like the Ford F250 and F350 models.
It's about an endurance contest at a Texas car dealership offering a free pickup to whoever can keep their hands on it the longest.
Pickup trucks provided a lift, and car companies reported sales appeared to pick up between Christmas and the New Year, says Citi analyst Itay Michaeli.
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Binder's 1997 documentary about an endurance contest at an east Texas car dealership that offered a free pickup to whoever could keep a hand on it the longest.
Binder's documentary about an endurance contest at a Texas car dealership that offered a free Nissan pickup to whoever could keep their hands on it the longest.
Car sales fell slightly from last March, but pickup sales jumped 14 percent.
The cities having the lowest percentage of electrified car registrations tend to be situated squarely in the pickup truck-loving central and southern regions.
To be replaced by an all-new model next spring as an early 2014 entry, the current-generation Impala has the distinction of being the last six-passenger car sold in the U.S. Pickup trucks and a few SUVs still come with front benches, but sedans and coupes have long abandoned them in favor of front buckets, which afford a center console between the seats to house the shift lever, switches and storage.
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Other rejoicing people were hanging out of car windows and sunroofs and gathered in the beds of pickup trucks.
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AutoSlash.com tracks prices for car rentals made through the site, up to the pickup date, and rebooks the rental free of charge if there's a price drop.
Now, the automaker has winners in the minicar, small car, midsize car, small SUV, midsize SUV, minivan, and large pickup categories.
Sales of highly profitable pickup trucks are tightly correlated with housing starts, while buoyant business travel boosts demand from car-rental firms.
In most car-sharing programs the mini vehicles are offset with larger ones and even a pickup or two.
General Motors and Ford sponsored some of our events, but my tour of the Ford Rouge factory, where workers assembled the Ford F-150 pickup, was paid for out of my own pocket and it was well worth it for a car design lover and transportation geek like myself.
Tesla's Model S was named Motor Trend's Car of the Year, and after receiving the award Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that an electric pickup truck might be in the company's future.
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