Now’s a perfect time to choose sides in the mid-size truck wars.

Our news this morning of Ford deciding not to bring the Raptor Ranger to American shores has whipped your normally placid author into a frothing rage, prompting him to print off a Blue Oval and throw his entire collection of competitive-grade Elkadart Razor steel-tipped darts at it.

Okay, maybe the situation here in the office is not that dire. However, it does make it a great time to ask the Off-Road readers what’s their choice from the crop of mid-sizers currently available.

The first two options are like fraternal twins – the same but different. Chevrolet is definitely the favorite son at GM, as the Colorado gets all the cool toys like F1-inspired DSSV dampers and gonzo levels of off-road cred. Mix in a natty interior and you’ve got a recipe for good sales, a fact we now only learn every three months thanks to GM’s new reporting cycle.

Across the showroom, GMC puts a more serious face on its mid-size Canyon, endowing it with all manner of chrome and – naturally – a higher sticker price. The General is courting a different type of buyer with this rig, one who arguably values comfort over dune-jumping. Both mid-sizers come with a choice of three engines, including a tasty turbodiesel.

Setting up for its umpteenth year is the venerable mid-size Toyota Tacoma, a truck that may have an interior straight from last decade’s playbook but remains a very capable machine. Plenty of shoppers seem to agree, as the mid-sizer continues to find new homes at a rapid pace. In some cities there are literally Taco trucks on every corner.

Thanks to its glacier-like redesign cycle, the current Nissan Frontier made its debut during the last Ice Age but continues to sell exceedingly well. Fine, that’s a bit of an overstatement (its age, not its sales) but there’s no denying this is the oldest of our selections here today. However, with customers still purchasing the Frontier in droves, there’s little incentive for the company to plow a lot of development dollars into the thing. Note well: it’s also the cheapest of the lot.

Make your pick! And chime in below.