The Best Pickup Trucks for Tall Drivers

Trucks don't have this problem

Across three guides and two dozen vehicles, the most front headroom we have measured in anything that is not a truck is 42.3 inches — a Chevrolet Suburban, which is itself enormous. The best sedan is 40.0 inches.

A GMC Sierra 1500 crew cab has 43.0 inches, and the regular cab 43.1".

So the roomiest truck beats the roomiest full-size SUV, and beats the best sedan on sale by 3.0 inches — while being a mainstream truck you can buy anywhere. Even the smallest, cheapest truck here, the Ford Maverick at 40.3", has more front headroom than every sedan we have measured.

If you are tall and a truck works for your life, the search is basically over. The rest of this page is about which one — and about one option, on one truck, that undoes all of it. That is the Maverick's moonroof, and it is covered at the bottom of this page.

Why the gap is so large

Nothing clever. A pickup cab is a box with a flat roof and an upright windscreen, sat high off the ground. There is no fastback roofline eating into the space above your head, no panoramic glass panel dropping the headliner an inch, and no attempt to look low and fast.

The same shape reasoning that makes a Kia Soul punch above its price is simply taken further. Trucks are the least fashionable roof profile on sale, and that is exactly why they work.

Headroom isn't the whole story here

Because every truck on sale clears 40 inches, legroom is what actually separates them — and the spread is much wider than the headroom spread.

• Sierra and Silverado: 44.5"
• F-150: 43.9"
• Maverick: 42.8"
• Tundra (2014–2021): 42.5"
• Tundra (2022–): 41.2"
• Ram 1500: 40.9"

That is a 3.6 inch range, against a 3.3 inch spread in headroom. The Ram is the one to look at carefully: excellent headroom, and the shortest front legroom of the full-size trucks by three inches. Its rear seat gets 45.2" — more than the front — which is the wrong way round if you are the one driving.

One truck does not clear 40 inches, and it is a used one. The 2014–2021 Tundra measures 39.7" on Toyota's own sheet — less than a Ford Maverick, and the only pickup in these guides below the 40-inch line. The current truck, redesigned for 2022, is a different story: Toyota gives it 41.0" on the SR, SR5 and Limited, and 39.3" on the Platinum, 1794 Edition, TRD Pro and Capstone, which come with the panoramic roof. The cheaper new Tundra is the one to drive.

What tall drivers actually recommend

The F-150 is the most-recommended full-size truck by tall drivers in our community data, with six recommendations up to 6'6". It is not the roomiest on paper — the Sierra beats it on both measurements — but it is the best balance, and it is the truck people actually live with.

The Maverick result is the surprising one. It is the smallest truck here, and a 6'7" driver recommends it.

Before you buy

Get the crew cab — but not for the reason we first gave. An earlier version of this page said extended and regular cabs cut front seat travel. Ford's own 2021 F-150 specification sheet says otherwise, and plainly: 40.8" of head room and 43.9" of leg room in the Regular Cab, the SuperCab and the SuperCrew alike. Shoulder and hip room are identical across all three too. The cab does not touch the driver's seat.

What it changes is everyone else. Rear leg room goes from 33.5" in the SuperCab to 43.6" in the SuperCrew — a 10.1" swing, and the Regular Cab has no back seat at all.

Three manufacturers now agree, so this can be stated for the segment rather than for one truck:

Front legroom is identical across every cab on all three trucks, and front headroom varies by at most a tenth of an inch. The back seat is the only thing that moves, and it moves by up to ten inches.

So buy the crew cab if anyone rides behind you. If nobody ever does, the cheaper cab costs your legs nothing.

Check the seat height adjustment, not just the ceiling. Trucks sit you high by default. Several tall drivers report needing the seat at its lowest setting in a truck, which is the opposite of the problem in a car — and if it does not go low enough, 43 inches of headroom does not help you.

Sunroofs cost you more here than anywhere else. One truck maker does publish a second figure, and it is the worst of any truck and the second-worst in the entire dataset. Ford gives the Maverick 40.3" without the moonroof and 38.0" with it — a 2.3" penalty, bigger than the Honda CR-V's 2.1" and beaten only by another Ford, the Bronco Sport SUV, at 2.4". A Maverick with glass has less headroom than a Toyota Camry, which undoes the entire reason you would shop this segment.

None of the full-size makers publish a second figure, and there is no reason to think they have solved a problem Ford has not. Assume glass overhead costs you something, assume it could be over two inches, and measure the exact truck rather than trusting the brochure number.

Watch the centre console. Several tall drivers raised this independently — in a wide truck cab the console is often tall and wide enough to interfere with your right leg. It is not in any spec sheet, and it is worth checking on a test drive.

Where these numbers come from

Manufacturer and dealer specification sheets. Crew cab figures, though Ford publishes identical front dimensions for every F-150 cab. Model years recorded per entry. Recommendation counts and driver heights come from a community thread of tall drivers, kept separate from the measured figures throughout — they tell you what to look at, not what is true.