The Ford Explorer was named Truck of the Year yesterday at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan. It's surprising that, with all of the updates to 2011 pickups, voters chose a vehicle that's no longer truly a truck. The NAIAS award is only one of dozens of we hear about each year, and at least most of the others try to slot vehicles into specific categories.
Ford announced it will hire about 7,000 workers this year, a sign that production is on an upswing (even though the number represents only a small fraction of the company's layoffs in recent years).
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