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Old 04-04-2006, 08:29 AM
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Try it now.

www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=109864

Then click on the "INSIDE LINE" Tab

Gees, the angle makes it look like they lowered the whole front end to hit the new front bumper crash safety compliance.

And those headlights...kinda looks...froggy.

Does anyone besides me think it looks a little like the big dog fancy and very expensive International?
 
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Old 04-04-2006, 09:14 AM
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The 07 just looks UGLY!!!
 
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If the lights werent so "oddly" shaped then it would look 10000000 times better. I think they are what screws the looks up.
 
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Wow! I wish I had the last two minutes of my life back.

That truck doesn't do it for me. I am happy I bought the 06 6.0.
 
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Old 04-04-2006, 09:42 AM
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I wonder if it would look better if they flopped the lights, put the little ones on the bottom, and the bigger ones up top. I still think the grill is too big, though.
 
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Old 04-04-2006, 09:46 AM
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It is definately starting to look like a big rig, or medium duty truck.
 
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I love it end off discussion. I cant believe you guys. Yes its a truck an it looks like a truck an you will all have one in time.
 
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There are some pillar mount gauges in the interior shot. As nice as it would be to see some real gauges in the truck, they won't be on the production model.
 
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Where's my tonka?
 
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Nothin' like being totally cheap and using 10 year old sheet metal. Although this may be another truck they let pics be taken of to throw people off and there is new sheet metal that would help take the focus off the headlights yet to come.
 
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That has to be the ugliest truck I have ever seen. Those headlights are absurd. Ford copies the GM canyon/Colorado headlight / signal light layout?!?!? Absurd!

And making the badge BIGGER??? Are you kidding? What a mess.

Sure makes it easier to buy a new truck before that messy wreck hits the market.

And I thought the Daimler truck was ugly...

-Mike
 
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Quoted from the article:

"Earlier pictures tipped us off to the new quarter panel vents just behind the front wheels. They look good but we would be surprised if they're actually functional."

I wonder if this is the "flow thru vents" for the blown coolant so it doesn't dirty up the engine compartment...
 
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Reading these post makes me wonder if anyone from the Ford marketing dept. ever reads these. They should.
 
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Yes, I'm very glad I've got my 05, I certainly wouldn't buy something that looked like that. The head lights make it look like it's wearing bi-focals! And the proportions of the grill are all out of balance. Looks weird to say the least. Too bad they think they have to change something that looks great into something that just looks different. Oh well, I'll enjoy my current truck for as long as possible and maybe by then Toyota will be into the diesel pickup game.
 
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Originally Posted by 97nukeford
Reading these post makes me wonder if anyone from the Ford marketing dept. ever reads these. They should.
i was thinking the same thing. it seams that most people in this thread and the one in the "superduty/heavyduty" forum dont like it.

those headlights are pretty funky and it does have a more "commerical truck" look to it, sort of uncivilized. i also dont think there is a need to put "superduty" all over the thing. i think ford needs to clean up the front end before it goes on sale or they are going to have a "love it" or "hate it" truck
 

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