Car Spec Index

Guides

Complete answers, measured from the catalog — never a top-ten selection.

The manual-transmission pickups we have tracked in the US

From 44 stick-shift models in 1990 to one in the latest year — the story in this list.

The disappearance of the cheap pickup

In this list: ten sub-$30k pickups in 2015, one in 2026, measured from launch stickers.

Where the V8 peaks in our record

V8 share of the US catalog by model year. The peak sits inside the EPA era, and what survives is mostly trucks and SUVs.

The diesel pickups we have tracked, and the hole in the record

A year-by-year diesel pickup list, with an honest thin patch where more trucks were sold than these rows can show.