Saturday Top 10s- Pick-up Trucks

Pick-up trucks come in all shapes and sizes, and can carry almost anything in addition to having so many different subcategories it's easy to get confused, from luxury pick-ups to sports trucks. The best ones are hard to determine, but here's my list:

10. Daihatsu Hi-Jet

The Daihatsu Hi-Jet is insane! Okay, it maybe isn't the best truck on the list, and it isn't the best truck compared to some that didn't even make the list. But, kei trucks are a very different subbranch of the truck community.

9. Toyota Land Cruiser 79 Series

The Land Cruiser 79 is one of the true spartans of the offroad world. It's one of only a couple of cars with leaf springs available nowadays, but they're there for the offroaders and those who need the springs, such as farmers.

8. Mazda BT50

The Mazda is one of the top midsize utes on the market today, with it being a top seller in Australia where large trucks are not popular. Mazda have always been very good at pickup trucks and they've been one of the best in the market for 20 years now.

7. RAM 1500

The RAM is an icon of American pick up trucks, like the Silverado and F-series. It's always been renowned as a big player and nowadays, it is huge. It's also the top-selling large pickup truck in Australia. The RAM, however, is best in offroad-focused Rebel spec, which is the Cross-Country starter car in Forza Horizon 4.

6. Iveco Daily 4x4

Iveco are a truck and van company. However, the Daily 4x4 is a ute (technically), and is used both by businesses and by keen offroad fans, and camping fans who use it as a base for campers. Also, the manufacturing company of the Daily is called SCAM. It isn't as bad as it sounds, as evidenced by the car.

5. Toyota Hilux

The Hilux has been proven to be unbreakable by Jeremy Clarkson, has been used as the car of preference by the UN and is the car of the cricket telecasts that were on 9 up until last year. However, it's most notable achievement is that it's been around for 50 years and it's been at the top of the sales charts for at least 25.

4. Mercedes X-Class

The X-Class is a brand new car that is a luxury truck. AS I've found out in Forza before, it also makes a damn fine drift truck! It's the first car I've ever seen from a luxury carmaker at a building site, and it gets props for that alone. It's a popular addition to the Mercedes Benz Commercial line-up.

3. Rivian R1

Rivian are an electric company here to challenge Tesla, with Tesla's rumoured pickup still not here. Rivian's is. It's extremely nice, as like the Mercedes it's a luxury truck. But the electric factor makes the ute quite quick off the line and also having big towing power. Watch out for Rivian in the next few years.

2. Jeep Gladiator

The Jeep Gladiator is, quite frankly, the most hyped truck in 2019. The Jeep is basically a LWB Wrangler ute. It's lived up to the hype mostly, and while with Jeep's reputation it might have some issues with the reliability in the future, it's still a cool truck and will be known as a recreational vehicle.

1. Ford F-150 Raptor

The F150 is a truck legend, and the Raptor is the latest extension of that. The Raptor is a very fast truck, not quite as quick off the line as the Rivian (understandably) but it's an offroad beast, as FailRace's recent video on the smaller brother, the Ranger Raptor, suggests. It's my best pickup truck.