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Model year 2007 (productions starts in mid-2006) was the last solid-ish rumor I heard. Which of course always gets mistranslated into MY 2006 (which would come out in 2005, which is next year!) and then people start carping about how stupid it would be to change the truck so soon, blah blah blah...
Although they took a lot of the Tonka concept "styling cues" in the 2005 facelift, I'd bet you'll see more of the Tonka-like stuff when the full redesign comes. Hydraulic Launch Assist would be *cool* if they could make it production-ready!