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Thom Taylor

Thom Taylor is a celebrated automotive journalist. He was awarded the Top 100 Most Influential People in Hot Rodding from Hot Rod Magazine, and was inducted into the Grand National Roadster Show Hall of Fame and the National Rod and Custom Hall of Fame. He’s a member of SEMA and the NHRA.

Thom has authored a number of books, including Hot Rod & Custom Chronicle and several guides for drawing vehicles like a pro, which pull from his distinguished ventures as an automotive illustrator.

Thom joined the MotorBiscuit team in 2019, and focuses his coverage on new vehicle releases, design, and the latest features and tech in the industry. His tenure of 25 years writing about the industry gives him a unique context for the auto news he covers, whether it’s part of the Rusty Monday series or the latest news from Chevy. Thom has built two complete cars from the ground up and driven vintage roadsters at the Indy 500.

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2020 Mitsubishi Triton-00
Trucks & SUVs

Mitsubishi Won’t Sell Triton Pickup Truck in America

We sometimes forget that Mitsubishi still sells vehicles in the US, but we think it forgot to sell the Triton L200 midsize pickup here. Mitsubishi has a great entry into the hot midsize pickup parade but we won’t be seeing it.  With as thin of a product mix as it has in the US the …
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1954 Ford F-100 | Ford
Trucks & SUVs

Top Best Pickup Design Picks

As Hagerty Insurance is in the biz of insuring classic and collectible cars it asked its constituents which pickups they thought were the best-looking of all time. A surprising number responded, and the results were recently released. So this is the list of the seven best pickup designs as determined by enthusiasts just like you, …
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Nash Trucks
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You Couldn’t Buy Nash’s Pickup Trucks

After car production started following WWII Nash Motor Company resumed building both cars and trucks, but the general public couldn’t buy these trucks. Nash only built a few hundred a year between 1947 and 1955 for use exclusively at dealers as tow trucks, or for corporate use at Nash assembly plants. During the first World …
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Trucks & SUVs

Top 10 Pickups Under $20,000

If you’ve been hunting around for a new pickup there are a gang of great ones to choose from, but they’re really expensive. Truck prices have gone up along with their popularity. But, there are also some great pickups under $20,000 out there that are affordable if you’re willing to go for a used pickup …
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Fall Guy | ABC
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10 Best TV Pickup Trucks Ever

There was a gang of TV shows in the 1950-1990s where a cool pickup was as integral as any character actor, maybe even more so. We miss some of these shows while others, well, they are best left to memory. Still, with an average TV series broadcasting 26 shows a season not counting summer reruns, …
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1971 Lincoln Mark III Six-Wheel Pickup | Facebook
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Lincoln Mark III Six-Wheel Pickup

If you’re looking for attention, hauling capabilities, and a luxurious ride, this six-wheel Mark III Lincoln Continental pickup may be what you need. Did we mention attention? Is this freak crazy or what? What’s better is it could be yours as it’s listed on Facebook Marketplace. Thank you The Drive for bringing it to our …
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Trucks & SUVs

Why Ram Sells Both the New 1500 and the Ram Classic

Why does Ram Trucks build an all-new pickup and its previous version, now called Ram Classic, at the same time? This idea was originally started to allow Ram time to ramp up production of its all-new Ram 1500, known as “DT” internally. But that was back in 2018 when the DT was just starting production.  …
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2019 Toyota Hilux Pickup | Toyota-00
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Why Are the Toyota Tacoma and Hilux Different Trucks?

If you love Toyota trucks or are looking for a great midsize pickup, you’ll want the Toyota Hilux. Unfortunately, in a confusing scenario that is not easily explained, if you live in the US you can’t buy one. So we’re going to drill down to see what the reasons are and why the Tacoma was …
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2000 Toyota Open Deck bB | Toyota-004
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The Toyota “Open Deck” Truck the U.S. Never Got

How come the U.S. didn’t get the love from Toyota by importing this Scion/Toyota bB Open Deck truck? Well, maybe it’s not so much a truck as a Ute. A cute-ute! Whatever you want to call it, we wish it could have been part of the Scion portfolio when Toyota still made the Scion brand. …
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Volkswagen Amarok
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2022 VW Amarok Signals Redesigned Ford Ranger

Volkswagen’s all-new Amarok midsize pickup is coming in 2022. That means the all-new Ford Ranger is coming in 2022. What’s the connection? Ford and VW announced in January 2019 they will share certain platforms and co-develop other new ones. Part of that agreement included having the 2022 Ranger and Amarok share not only architecture but …
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Jeep Gladiator XMT-FCA-00
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Jeep Gladiator Extreme Military-Grade (XMT) Revealed

There may soon be another U.S.-spec military Jeep as the Gladiator Extreme Military-Grade Truck has been revealed. Called the XMT for short, it was shown at the annual exhibition of the Association of the U.S. Army. This is a combined effort of Jeep and AM General. The lightweight Gladiator offered an opportunity to show the …
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An orange 2019 Ford Ranger at speed on a road with a mountain background
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2019 Ford Ranger Recall Announced

Ford Motor Company has announced a major recall of its 2019 Ranger midsize pickup. Over 20,000 have been recalled because the truck’s heating, ventilating and air conditioning blower motor could short out possibly causing it to overheat, smoke, or catch on fire. From Ford, “The HVAC blower motor may have been built with an improper …
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2019 GMC Sierra Denali
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The Big Difference Between Sierra and Silverado

The big difference between the GMC Sierra and Chevy Silverado trucks are their diesel engine fuel economy numbers. Diesel versions of the 2020 GMC Sierra and 2020 Chevy Silverado have an identical drivetrain, so you would expect identical fuel economy numbers. If you do, you would be wrong. In a weird occurrence that has to …
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A red Nissan Frontier sanding.
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Nissan Frontier Surprisingly Outselling Five Newer Trucks

The Nissan Frontier midsize pickup beats five other midsize truck brands in its class in sales so far in 2019. As wrong as that sounds being that the Frontier is over 20 years old with only minor changes while some of the midsize trucks it beats are almost all-new, it’s true. The Nissan Frontier beats …
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1947 Dodge Power Wagon Woodie Legacy Restoration
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Legacy Woodie Is a Restomodded Dodge Power Wagon

Dodge Power Wagons are the epitome of brawny, American truck exceptionalism, and combined with a woodie body has got to be the ultimate off-road party wagon. Now, to crank that up a few notches have Legacy Classic Truck Restoration out of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, transform the tired drivetrain and suspension to today’s 4 x 4 …
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2020 GM Defense ISV-GM-00
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GM Turns Colorado ZR2 into Defense Infantry Squad Vehicle

This is the new GM Defense Infantry Squad Vehicle based on Chevrolet’s Colorado ZR2 platform. How hardcore is this? Yes, this thing is being built by the General for the U.S. military with this prototype making way for 650 examples in 2020. GM has this defense arm to develop vehicles for the military. It was …
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1964 Dodge Little Red Wagon Pickup-Getty
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Dodge’s “Little Red Wagon” May Be the Most Famous Pickup Truck Ever

The term “popping a wheelie” and the whole exhibition wheelstander sideshow in drag racing was accidentally invented by the famous Dodge “Little Red Wagon” pickup. What was meant to be a serious quarter-mile racecar back in 1964 was a failure that became the most photographed and famous pickup ever. The Little Red Wagon was conceived …
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2020 Nissan Navara N-Trek Warrior | Nissan
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Why Can’t the U.S. Get The Nissan Navara N-Trek Warrior?

Where is the new Nissan Frontier and why doesn’t the US get this Raptor-like truck that Australia does? In many parts of the world, Nissan’s midsize truck is the Navara, and in Australia, there’s this cool beast; the Nissan Navara N-Trek Warrior.  What Is The Navara N-Trek Warrior The Warrior is a collaboration between Nissan …
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1958 Datsun Pickup | Nissan
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You Can Own The First Japanese Trucks Sold in the U.S.

PThe first of anything is always collectible so why not restore the first series of Toyota or Datsun trucks that made it into the US? There’s one of each for sale in the LA area right now, and both are complete and look like easy projects.  Datsun 1000 Pickup The Datsun is on Facebook Marketplace …
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1955 Ford 1-Ton Pickup | Getty
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10 Most Influential Pickup Truck Designs

1946 Dodge Power Wagon Pickups are meant to be rugged and tough-looking, and the roughest and toughest of them all was the influential Dodge Power Wagon. It was also the first civilian four-wheel drive pickup ever made. Though the military had four-wheel drive trucks from the major truck manufacturers going back to the 1930s it …
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