I see all kinds of console shifter pictures in the gallery.... What about a column shifter option? I'm sure it'll be available in the XL model but what about the FX-4 or XLT models? I've got a console of my own to put in a truck.....without being clogged by a shifter and storage box.

What the word? Anyone know?

 

I think console/column shifter depends mainly on seating. If i have seen things right, column is for bench seats and console is for the captains chairs.

 

Column shift should still be available in most if not all models. I know I saw some pics somewhere.

If you didn't know now, the column shift is standard in all the 04-08 models including FX4 and Lariat. The console shift with captains chairs is "optional" in the FX4 and Lariat. Of course console shift also comes in the Harley and King Ranch, but those trucks are just special "option" packages associated with the Lariat model.

 

Yeah I've got the console shift in my '05. I wish I'd of gotten the column shift though.

 

well maybe someone like DearbornDerek can confirm if the column shift will still be standard in all models.

otherwise the order guides should be out soon and they break down all the details between the models. I'll post the link to it once it comes out if no one else does first.

 

Same options with the shifter as the current models. Platinum will be console only.

 

yea, my wife still likes to sit next to me

 

When I looked at the '08's you could not get captains chairs and a column shift, just the space eating console shifter. I hope that changes in the '09.

 

Just curious, but what difference would captain chairs make with or without the column shifter? They're the same seats.

 

Even if I had captain chairs, a colum shift would open up the floor space. More room to put all kinds of things.
They have a 60/40 type seat that has a folding center concole, that would work too.
More room for another person (on the rare occasions when the extra room is needed).

 

If u ever had a console shifter u would never go back very sweet, even if I didn't have it I would not have 3 people in the front with me too crowded

 

i have a column shifter and my truck is a XLT...i do like the console shifter though but i like having the center open with a seat also.....

 

Got a console shift in my 04.
Just wasted space..... Looks reallll good, but it's useless(when thinking about useable space).

Got the colum shift in my 77 and 79..... I like to be able to use the space for different little things.... even if it's just sliding from passenger seat to driver instead of getting out and walking around in say, the pouring rain.

 

Well...like I said, I've got that console shifter in the '05 and I thought it'd be nice and cool. It is! It looks great...but...I need the floor space and honestly I need the "between the seat" space. I'd take out the middle section under the folding armrest and mount a console to the seat mounts to house all my fire department stuff....

But...I bit the big one and bought an '07 F-250 yesterday with the 40/20/40 so I don't have to worry about it anymore! Maybe in 2011 or 12 after the F-150 diesel has it's kinks worked out.

 

Good observation and something I didn't think of but, done on several occasions.