Autoweek’s annual Best of the Best awards featured eight vehicle finalists. They were selected for their performance, design, build quality, value and significance. And over a three-day test session at Michigan International Speedway, one car and one truck were determined the winners.
For the trucks, the winner was the 2015 GMC Canyon.
“Of the hundreds of vehicles Autoweek tests each year, only a relative few truly stand out from the rest,” said Autoweek editor Wes Raynal. “The 2015 GMC Canyon is not only one of the best new vehicles on the market, it’s one of the most important, signaling an exciting return to the mid-sized truck segment.”
The Autoweek award given to to the 2015 Canyon mirrors the win seen by the 2015 Chevrolet Colorado and the 2015 Motor Trend Truck of the Year award. The 2015 Colorado was also a runner in the Autoweek competition. Are GM’s mid-size trucks a winning one-two punch? Sales are still more or less just beginning, but if the awards mean anything, then yes.
Where was the 2015 Ford F-150? Ford didn’t provide one.
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The times, they change. $35 k buys:
2005: New GMC Sierra HD Crew cab, 4×4 Allison/Duramax, leather interior.
2015: New GMC Sonoma, gas V6 designed for a car, snazzy notches in plastic rear bumper.
And today, the Sonoma is selected a winner for being a great value.
Job well done GMC!
The price of a new car is $31-35K as it’s not 2005 anymore. If not for these smaller truck many would be priced out of the segment.
Sad thing is that since my pay did not double in the last 10 years I can know longer afford a vehicle that’s doubled it’s price since 10 years ago. I don’t think GM employees have had their wages doubled, either. So the extra money is going somewhere, right? Maybe that’s where the money is coming from to pay all these cobalt owners…
Unfortunately, income had not increased while prices rise.
Credit, sadly, has replaced cost of living increases, and interest rates now border of theft. Nonetheless, this is now how the industry works.
I’m thrilled that mid sized is back as it’s all 75 percent of buyers need. GM has done a great job reinventing the segment regardless of whatever aluminum Ford offers next year.
It’d imagine a mid sized aluminum truck would get great mpg.
$250,000 doesn’t buy the same size house as it did in 1975. Oh geez, it must the builders and developers fault, right? I mean nothing majorly important that impacts home prices has happened since 1975, right?
Yep only 4 more months and I should have one of these. Just priced it at $27,500. I am fine with cloth. And it will fit in my garage with plenty of room.
It is puzzling why Ford would not have presented a truck. They make a claimed ground breaking truck yet they do not offer it in a best of the best models competition?
Autoweek is a big player coming from Crain Publications here and one of the more creditable awards. This one is not rigged like many others.
Not too hot, not to cold… The bowl of porridge that’s just right
It sits just as high off the ground as a Sierra or Silverado and therefore getting in and out is still a pain and I found it more difficult than getting in and out of the bigger trucks.
And If they lower the 4×4 then people complain that it is too low to go off road.
You just can’t make everyone happy.