Скачать или смотреть 21 SUVs and Pickups. 1 Grand Prize Winner. Welcome to NWAPA Mudfest 2025!

Every year, Northwest Automotive Press Association members get together to hold Mudfest, the NW Activity Vehicle of the Year competition. It’s a real world look at the kinds of vehicles people are buying today, not just crawling over rocks and trees. 19 automotive Northwest Automotive Press Association writers assembled at The Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton, WA for two days of on-pavement and off-road evaluation. Check out the category winners and see which machine takes home the grand prize of NW Activity Vehicle of the Year!

Also, you’ll want to watch to the very end…

Special thanks to Aaron Hanson, Erin Kemp, the staff of DriveShop and Page One Automotive, Connie Peters, Kristen Brown, J.R. Chocco, John Vincent, Jim Redden, Bengt Halvorson, Nik Miles, The Ridge Motorsports Park and Alderbrook Resort for their part in making Mudfest 2025 a huge success.

Thumbnail photo courtesy of Doug Berger- DBPics.com

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00:00 NWAPA Mudfest SUV And Pickup of the Year Competition
1:15 What Mudfest is all About
2:17 How We Assess
3:31 On-Pavement Testing
7:20 Off-Road Testing
9:10 Catching Air
13:17 The Winners
15:00 Summary and Special Thanks