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SILVERADOSC540 Senior Enthusiast

SILVERADOSC540

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Interesting. Dodge door handles, Toyota roofline, a strange windshield that looks like the top is cut off, Dodge Durango wheels and a sliding payment window from check into cash on the back glass. In the end, it may turn out to be a beautiful truck, but the more they reveal the happier I am that I pulled the trigger a few months ago. Did I mention that it is truck month at GM right now? Tons of incentives and zero percent...Besides, the current models will be considered "classics" in about a year...

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MikeNH Senior Enthusiast

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Incentives are actually lower than they've been in ages according to an article I read the other day. I also think sliding windows are pointless, just another source of wind noise and I hate wind noise.

cobrajet84 Senior Enthusiast

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I like the tailgate fin a lot. I also like the rest of what I'm seeing so far.

 

The fin is a good idea but if itis anything like the dodges tailgate i'll be dissapointed. I like the plastic cap on the 900's as i know i'm just grabbing plastic. My dads dodge has the built in tailgate like fin and you have your hand on paint everytime you lift the tailgate up. Don't like the fact that i'm grabbin paint to put the tail gate up.

KMGZ400 Senior Enthusiast

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You can have your sliding windows, I'll stick to my one piece with defrost, which unlike a sliding window has a purpose. :lol:

 

 

i like my defrost too, sliders are useless to me

KMGZ400 Senior Enthusiast

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to be honest, it really dosent look too much different from the 900's.. the lines are all different but it still has the basic looks of the 900.. front end dosent look too much different which it a good thing.

 

i dont like the rake i see, and i dont like the rims.

blkmtrfan Enthusiast

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I am not a fan of the whole "fin", as here up north many of us run canopies and they don't work well with that...

 

I do think the truck looks good, at least from what you can see and I am interested to see how the new motors perform

kstruckcountry Senior Enthusiast

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I think that the coolest back window in a truck slides all the way down. I think it's on a Toyota. Ugh. I just barfed in my mouth a little.

 

My buddy's old SportTrac had one. You wouldn't believe the things that window was used for.

Meanwhile, I have fun watching the ice fall off of mine....

sk Senior Enthusiast

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I think that the coolest back window in a truck slides all the way down. I think it's on a Toyota. Ugh. I just barfed in my mouth a little.

 

 

Not Toyota, it's on the Nissan Titan:

 

http://carphotos.car...10006_large.jpg

 

This was something I was hoping GM would do on the K2X's, but it looks like they may have made the opening smaller!

MikeNH Senior Enthusiast

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Toyota has the one-piece lowering window on the crew cab Tundras and 4Runners too. And they retain defrost. I still have no interest as it's just another regulator to fail and another source for wind noise as the truck ages. If I'm above like 40-45 MPH the windows are up and the ACs on, I can't stand the wind noise from a window at speed.

MikeNH Senior Enthusiast

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Yeah because you can see the body through the camo. And the trucks weren't why GM needed a bailout.

KMGZ400 Senior Enthusiast

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So far with the exterior, GM swung and missed...well they may have fouled it off but not a solid hit. They better hit it out of the park with the interior or they will be belly up again and begging for more money.

 

 

GM swung and missed according to who?

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