housei

angelu

As far as I know, the F150 will still have three bed options, 5 1/2 6 1/2 and 8' beds. With 8' being available on the Regular cab and supercab. Crewcab can have the 5 1/2 or 6 1/2 only.

I'll be waiting for the new power plant options in 2010 though.

MrEvil

FThorn

SexCpotatoes

I like the new ram, mostly. It has good proportion to it. The Ford grille looks like it was haphazardly glued over where a regular indented grille should be. The RAM on the other hand is pretty hot. The grille blends with the probiscus and while the whole grille looks kind of like a fat lower lip or that the truck is pouting, it just works aesthetically.

The wraparound chrome bumper is what helps balance out the massive grille. It looks good, except, I dunno if I care for the fog lights embedded in the grille. Now if it only could give and take some hard hits without being a crumple zone or something, that would rock.

The rear fender storage bins are innovative, but, how much worse is it gonna be to lift things over the side of the bed to put them in the regular bed. As long as it's no more difficult and it doesn't take away any of the cubic load capacity, Kudos to them.

My favorite piece on this Dodge is the taillights, because they remind me of my first car's taillights, and I loved them (1988 Ford Crown Victoria LTD)

One final thing, in the dodge ram picture gallery, the side shot of the front end looks like a mustang! At least from that angle, and in a cool way.

[jalopnik.com]

@gamble:
Utility matters first in a truck. Next is that you don't hate how it looks. I bet you just love the horrible looking Sebring, don't you? The old WRX was ugly, but the kind of ugly you can love. The Sebring is an assault against all that is holy. The F-150 looks like somebody told the artist: 'Draw me a cyberpunk truck.'

SexCpotatoes

ZZMarcus

Maymar is convinced M.C. Escher engineered his car

no v8 nice

stevecmh

unemployedjournalist

gamble

Some of it boils down to personal taste. Go over to TTAC [www.thetruthaboutcars.com] and find their TWAT awards from last year. The goal was to nominate the ugliest, worst platform sharing or badge engineered, outdated technology, or just plain crap car for the Ten Worst Automobiles Today awards.

My nomination or "vote" if you will, was for the Chevrolet Uplander, or as I personally call it "The UPbortion."

I take those things as a personal assault on my retinas and my brain. Just as I take the blue oval on the center of the rear end as a mistake that irks me. It's not pretty, it's not functional, and it's contrary to what they've been doing and what has worked well I might add, for many generations. It's like somebody ordered 10 million ford ovals instead of 1 million and now they have to use them all up.

Same with the mini-me Navigator grille, certain things are just plain WRONG or fugly beyond belief that they scream, designed/approved by clueless focus group.

Like the flying vagina on the old Subaru Tribeca, most people know it when they see it. At least that's as near as I can explain it.

SexCpotatoes

DoctorNine makes tires squeal in terror

gamble

Tomsk the red-nosed reindeer

If the grille was shorter, and the headlights placed higher up, it would be great looking.

TexanIdiot25 could use some of that bail out money

The proportions on these new trucks look all wrong to me for some reason. They look like compact trucks that have been scaled up to be full-size.

IMO, the current F150 is the best looking Ford truck in the last thirty years. This one... isn't.

WilliamG.

amanz

Sure how my truck lasts that long

KillingMyBrainCells

sos10

Hyman Decent

Trucks are the equivalent to a horse in the old west. They giddayup when you tell them, they'll take you through a wasteland, and as long as you feed them and care for them, they will show you more love and dedication than any woman.

And a truck is not a TRUCK without an 8 Foot Bed. It can have four doors, because nowadays you have to move people around as well as gravel and hay and furniture and kegs, but not many of your friends will be any sort of keen to ride in the fucking bed on a freeway in 20 degree temperature for even the shortest distances.

When you do a job well, and your truck got you there, even if the heap is falling apart, there's no more manly feeling you could possibly get in the world, not even screwing your hottest fantasy girl without a condom on.

With these blinged out urban taco-shoppers, the people who'd buy them would cry if a shopping cart got blown across the lot and put a tiny ding in any part of the truck. Where a true truck man would laugh about it then proceed to ram the shopping cart at about 45 mph (just for fun) making it do three aerial flips before it lands in a misshapen heap inside the cart corral.

Get along little dogies.

I rest my case.

SexCpotatoes

goatrope

Looks like really, really nice truck. Too nice for me.
I compare this to my '87 F150 and the new one is gigantic.

Hell, its gigantic compared to my '97 Suburban.

They should change the name to Gigantor the Dominator

danio3834

gamble

NovaloadMissesPolar

I hate the new Ford truck rear ends. The F-O-R-D is supposed to be speeled out, no fucking logos plastered on the front and the back. Front is where they belong, back can be painted or stamped, anything else is just uncivilized. I mean, what is that protubrance? A smurf cock, trying to fuck a busted out crome fog-light?

Jesus.

SexCpotatoes

Tell me, doctor, where are we going this time
Is this the 80's, or 2009
All I wanted to do - was play my guitar and sing

So take me away, I don't mind
But you'd better promise me, I'll be back in time
Gotta get back in time

Don't bet your future, on one roll of the dice
Better remember, lightning never strikes twice
Please don't drive eighty eight, don't wanna be late again

cgarison

Why buy a truck to get a TV when you can just get the store to deliver it? I am confused.

saabophile2

blakeley

johnnyichiban