MotorTrend 2025 Truck of the Year

MotorTrend has recently announced its pick for the 2025 Truck Of The Year, and it’s not a surprise to many who have been driving this truck for years. It’s not the first time this model has received distinction as the best light-duty truck by MotorTrend. If you have been driving the same truck brand for years, then you know what you’re getting, but if you haven’t been driving this particular brand, the 2025 Truck of the Year may change your mind. Congrats to the RAM 1500, MotorTrend’s pick for the 2025 Truck of the Year. If you live in Lawrence, Topeka, or Kansas City, you can get the 2025 RAM 1500 at Victory Chrysler Dodge Jeep RAM. Take a look at our inventory of new 2025 RAM 1500 models and find the one that suits your lifestyle today.

A Prestigious Honor

For the RAM 1500 to reach this level of distinction seven times, it has exceeded the expectations in the areas of advancement in design, engineering excellence, efficiency, safety, value and performance of intended function seven different times since RAM became a standalone brand 15 years ago. RAM offers a wide range of trims to choose from with this model. The 3.0L Hurricane Straight-Six Turbo engine gave RAM the nudge it needed to boost the 2025 RAM 1500 to the top of its competition among 18 different brands of light-duty pickups.

Capable Power

RAM 1500’s Hurricane engine offers up to 540 hp that can handle all your light-duty needs. For RAM to take this prestigious award it had to be on point with a lot of traits that appeal to many truck drivers. The light-duty truck segment of the automotive industry is one of the most brutal competitions annually as powerful trucks vie for the Truck of The Year Crown. Seven different RAM 1500 model years have taken the award before, including 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2019, 2020, 2021, and finally 2025.

The Criteria to Win

Winners of the “Of The Year” awards aren’t chosen from a direct comparison against other finalists, rather they are judged based on how they perform in each segment’s six criteria:

• 1. Advancement in design

• 2. Engineering excellence

• 3. Efficiency

• 4. Safety

• 5. Value

6. Performance of intended function

During the competition, Truck of the Year candidates are put through their paces at MotorTrend’s professional automotive testing facility where nearly every aspect of each vehicle undergoes a full battery of testing procedures. The trucks are then evaluated on real-world roads loaded, unloaded and towing as well as at a premium off-road testing site before the winner is selected. RAM 1500 is the most awarded light-duty truck in America and the RAM 1500 Tungsten trim with air-suspension and 24-way massage seats was awarded the most luxurious truck in the segment.

If you’re interested in the 2025 RAM 1500, contact us at Victory CDJR and set up a test drive and experience all the RAM 1500 has to offer and see for yourself why it has taken truck of the year for 2025.