It is a little more complicated than just "moving up the trucks" when you are talking about a major redesign of a 900k+ volume vehicle (whose platform spawns several hundred thousand more SUVs).

It's not like they just throw darts at a calendar to pick the launch of the next design...

I guess we'll see how major the freshening of the F150 is in '07. I'd guess it will be a slight restyle and interior freshening, much like the '03 Silverados got.

 

GM's very dated trucks arent hurting them as bad as everyone is making it out to be . The last sales data I saw , Fords new truck was barely outselling the Silvarado and Sierra . I do think GM's sales will slip a lil in 05 , and Fords will probably grow . There are some incredible deals on brand new f-150's right now .

lol , Im not sure the ugly stick drives the point home enuff The current Ram is the best looking truck on the market IMO .

 

The only thing that is hurting GM is the rebates are higher to sell the older trucks. GM actually out sold Ford in 2004 in Fullsize pickups by 35,000.

 

idk about you guys but i like that new dakota
looks waaay better than the clown faced ram imo
although the back of the ram looks decent

 

Already freshining the F-150 while they are still selling the same Ranger since 1993 Right now the GMT355 twins are out selling the Ranger 2 to 1.