PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — After 100 years of making pickups, you might think there was no room for improvement to seemingly elementary components like the bed, trailer hitch, tailgate and rear bumper.

Pickup trucks used to be purely functional, but now they go far beyond a simple bed and cabin. These days, they're multi-functional luxury vehicles designed to make life as convenient as possible for ...

It’s hard to believe that the current Ford F-150 is already three years old, but in part, that’s because the Blue Oval has been steadily rolling out derivatives of its best-selling truck for much of ...