Gmc Terradyne


This looks pretty cool, I specifically love the doors that will never hit any cars in any lot and you can pretty much step out of the tightest spaces. I'm no GM fan, but had they come with this one for '06 I might have had to wait until buying my new truck, but I already got my '05 lariat.

 

I dont really like the looks of that. That is somthing a redneck alien would drive. It is way to dreamy for me. Way to many gismos and gagets. It does not look like it would be capable of much more than road use.

 

Look at the date. 2000.
I believe that's where the critically acclaimed styling of the Avalanche came from.

I was watching a GM ad on TV last night where they run thru almost their entire lineup on the commercial. I says to the wife.. "What a universally ugly line-up of vehicles... Wonder why they are going broke?"

 

Some how, some way, if I had that thing I would end up getting stuck in between the doors as they were closing, I just know it.

 

I like the sliding doors. Almost, but not quite, as good as a 1954 Kaiser Darrin. the Darrin's doors disappeared when they slid forward.

 

man thats an ugly truck.and why was gmc acting like that quadeersteer was something brand new

 

Heck, that's normal hype. Right now, VW is acting like steerable headlights is a new concept. They were available as aftermarket kits in the 30's, the '47 Tucker had one from the factory, and European version of the 1973 Citroen-Maserati SM had them. Four wheel steer has been around for a while. In fact, I was recently looking at a 175 ton mobile crane that had ALL wheel steering -- all ten of them. I'll concede the improved maneuverability, but I looked at a Grabowski Motor Company pickup and it scared me. That little servo and small tie rod on the back of the rear axle looks like something I'd back into a stump and bend. Nice, but easy to damage and expensive to fix.

 

That thing is ugly as sin. That looks like the Cheyenne concept Chevy had done a while back, which was almost uglier. I just don't get GM's designers. They need to be slapped with some style.

 

I'm not sure what moved GM toward that angular sort of paramilitary look. I see it in Chevy pickups, and in new Cadillac products. I don't think it will wear well. Twenty years down the road, we'll be laughing at those things more than we laugh at a '58 Buick wagon. Only the conservatively styled deVille will age well.

I was not pleased with the swoopy streamlined F150's a couple or three years back. But I like the Ford styling now. Dodge looked better in 1995-2001 than they do now. Nothing like OVERdoing a good idea.

Frankly, I don't mind trucks that look like trucks. My '77 F250 is fine, and I like my '86 F250. Heck, if I was rich, I'd have a 1949 Diamond T.

 

Very nice...
Make mine a 32 cornbinder.

 

Now that's a truck! No frills, all business. Everything from the cab guard to the bars in front of the radiator, is there for a purpose.

If they figure out how to put the sliding doors of that concept Chevy into a decent truck, I wouldn't mind. I once specified an emergency vehicle with a couple of roll-up doors, like you see on beverage trucks. But they aren't really weathertight. That's why I'm a bit skeptical of the GMC Envoy with the sliding roof section. The roll doors we used took up some overhead space when rolled up, and they let dust and moisture through. If someone makes a weathertight roll door, then maybe engineers it to disappear into the doorsill and hide underneath when open, that would be really cool. Imagine pulling up to the curb, pushing a button, and your door "disappears." More cool than gull wings.

 

Proof once again there are no new ideas. Chrysler showed a concept car in the 1960's, a 4-door sedan with 4 sliding doors mounted on parallelogram hinges. Power retracting running boards? Doesn't the Lincoln Navigator have those?

 

Maybe it's just me but when I think sliding doors, I think van.

 

I always wondered what Mr. Spock drove when he was home on Vulcan, now I know. Mr. Spock, a pick-up man somehow I always new he would be. This is proof positive that the car designers are on drugs again. Next thing you know they will bring back the Gremlin, Pacer, and Pinto.

 

The Pacer always looked like it belonged in a Sci-Fi "B" movie.