Cars: Best of the best, 2007

People in other countries have trouble understanding this peculiar fact about America. In other places, you have to pay people to drive trucks. Here, we actually like driving them. Lots of them.

In fact, the best-selling passenger vehicle in America isn't a car. It's a pickup. As it has been for more than a decade, the top selling passenger vehicle is the Ford F-series truck.

There are a few things besides mere consumer preference that work in the F-series' favor. For one thing, its sales numbers include a significant number that are sold for actual professional users.

The other is that the F-series badge goes on a wide range of trucks from the basic F-150 to the big, burly Super Duty truck shown here.

If General Motor's pickups didn't get split between two nameplates - Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra - GM would actually carry away the "Top-selling vehicle" bragging rights.