The Mini-Truck War Heats Up

[North7]

It was very real. They just built one of them.

Thanks, updated note and photo.

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[Username_not_found]

It was very real. They just built one of them.

Oh God. Figured it was early 2000s being it looks like a somehow worse SSR.

 

[atonge40]

They is just GM renewing their patent. It keeps others from using the name. Like Ford and Model E.

The Cheyenne name has traditional used on full sized trucks. They could make it a heritage trim as well. Or a Silverado EV. This alone doesn't signal GM entering the unibody truck market in the US and Canada.

 

[88to21bronco]

I was on the design team for this concept. Here is the design I submitted:

 

[atonge40]

I was on the design team for this concept. Here is the design I submitted:

Better looking then the new Grand Wagoneer.

 

[Toccoa]

Oh God. Figured it was early 2000s being it looks like a somehow worse SSR.

It's worse than that. It was clearly a response to the disastrous 2003 redesign.

2002 Silverado	2003 Silverado (released Fall 2002)
2003 Cheyenne (released January 2003)	2007 Silverado (released Fall 2006)

 

[jasonkosi]

Call them whatever you want, just don’t call them trucks. ‘Cause they’re not.

 

[harpo]

I was on the design team for this concept. Here is the design I submitted:

Seriously miss my truck (2002 chrysler minivan).

It was sweet, and I could convert it into an 8 person family reunion shuttle in minutes.

Enclosed 8' bed, 4' 1" between wheel wells, 46" height, 1500 lb payload.....

 

[BlueOvalBandit]

All I see when I look at that

 

[Tricky Dick]

More correctly, it was heating up until Chevy threw cold water on it. They haven't made an attractive truck in decades and aren't about to start now.

 

[fire282]

Meh. I miss the old rangers. The new rangers are too big and curvy for the little engines in them. Practically the size of an f150. The new maverick does little to impress me either. Bring me back to the days of square body single cab long bed stick shift 4x4 pickups with rolly windows

I agree. I'm so glad Ford gave the Bronco that squared off retro bad ass look, as compared to the curvy mod look. I guess that's what the Sport is for.

 

[Fordmanbob]

Call them whatever you want, just don’t call them trucks. ‘Cause they’re not.

They are pickups....only useful for hauling things you pick up at walmart

 

[KirchTX]

There are still small Japanese trucks rolling around farms today. Mitsubishi, Nissan and especially Toyota. They're more truck than a bloated F150 that's a daily driver to an office and never gets a scratch in the bed liner.

 

[LostInArizona]

Again, Chevrolet showing just how completely clueless their designers are.

The others... ehh... not terrible. But still, meh.

 

[88to21bronco]

There are still small Japanese trucks rolling around farms today. Mitsubishi, Nissan and especially Toyota. They're more truck than a bloated F150 that's a daily driver to an office and never gets a scratch in the bed liner.

Everyone is absolutely entitled to their opinions. But I will never understand the vitriol some spew towards large trucks. I had two Rangers in the 90's that I loved and put 200,000 miles on a 98 S-10. But I have three kids so I have a crew cab Titan XD. It pulls trailers, hauls lumber, navigates farm roads and, yes, occasionally goes to Walmart. What's wrong with getting as big a truck as you need?

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