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And destroy that beautiful patina ?? ?

https://www.quora.com/What-is-aerodynamic-efficiency-and-what-are-the-parameters-required-to-calculate-it if you google the term ‘aerodynamic effieciency’ It is not necessarily a term that relates to fuel efficiency as much as it does lift and drag. And there’s not a clear cut definition of it. So it might help the truck stay glued to the road. It’s a term that in this case may be used as a marketing buzz term as much as anything. It says imroving fuel fuel economy but it doesn’t say ‘vs the 2018’ it can merely mean having the curtains on the 2019 over the wheels increased aerodynamics vs not having them on the 2019. The front end got larger so to offset that, they needed to add the curtains to offset the drag of the front wheels they didn’t have on the 18 got it marketing and and communications folks love to create press releases that can make a claim sound like something that sometimes stretches truth So the Silverado has meat curtains. Ha

House of color Kandy pink with a hybrid toyota drivetrain. If your going to destroy it go all of the way. And yes that is sarcasm. I have a Henry Ford doll with pins and needles in it placed in my desk drawer at work though.

@regfootball @balthazar Any chance one of you guys could next time take a tape measure and with them side by side have the tape measure to see the difference in width and height so we know which brick face is blocking airflow more?

But you cannot gauge .cd by appearances.

Is the irony lost on you how stupid this is?

Jaguar has now added their own sound for inner city driving so blind people especially can hear the auto.

@Drew Dowdell Let the recession begin: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/11/why-are-markets-plunging-and-which-stocks-are-worst-hit-us-interest-rates-trade-war https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/10/10/why-stock-market-went-down-so-much/1593803002/

Loving me some Caddy and GMC SUV Love!

The GMC still looks WAY BETTER than it's Chevrolet sister.

More like 1995-96.

Again- dimensional differences are not going to tell you that. But spec sheets say the '18 CC/SB 4x4 is 73.8-in high, the '19 is 75.4-in. Width is 80.0 on the '18 and 81.2-in on the '19. I can tell you this- the 4x4 '19 1500 is many inches higher at the bedrail than my 2500HD 4x4 is. I can reach small items on the bed floor of mine standing on the ground- not so on the '19. I know part of the 'class leading bed volume' is straight up taller bed walls. dfelt- you might have no problem, but I'm not 6' 28" tall.

I've seen them up close & right next to an '18 also. Yep, they are slightly taller, but that's still zero correlation that they have worse aerodynamics. 'Visually' is irrelevant.

The ultimate 'GenericCar'. Can be used at will in any & all advertising with no worries of product endorsement. ;)

Well, I’m the one with the Henry Ford sig, but I do agree with you. We only have to look at the mega hurricanes so far to realize something has to be done... Besides, as long as we still have choice, things should be fine. ICE doesn’t need to go away, but I get the feeling EV will only continue to get better and cooler as well! But, as long as emissions can be controlled, I think ICE still has a place here at the table as well...... Actually, I would love to hear about the off road ones...nice change there.’ Like the Mazda and subie too.....

20 mpg city sounds decent, but 23 mpg highway rounds rather weak. You'd think a 4-cylinder engine would post better numbers. I also don't know why Toyota hasn't done a Tundra Hybrid with the Lexus LC500h powertrain, that is good for 26/35 mpg in a 4500 lb car, I imagine in a truck it would still be good for over 25 mpg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt#History Looks like Nash was the first OEM to offer them.

Actually I am liking all of the FCA lineup as of late. Pacifica I had for a weekend rental was awesome over 4 days and 1500 miles. If that is indicative of the products FCA wants to sell count me in.

Agree, I think it will come down for some to cost. The story does not cover this at all and I have yet to see what the cost of the Turbo 4 banger is compared to the V8 options. Then a Turbo versus an NA V6 and one with electric assist, should be interesting to see how it falls out. I honestly would take a GM full size pickup with a Hybrid powertrain if it was using their strong NA V6 motor. I honestly do not see why GM is not building a toughened version of the VOLT power train and putting it in the full size truck. It would be class leading and kill the competition.

Always gonna be a mixed bag when you go turbo 4 banging in a full size truck. Over all not bad though. Imagine if this was an EV with generator 2wd pickup, it would really roast the cross town rivals. As I posted in the update for this company, you could have blistering torque and power if you only went with 2 in-wheel hub motors.

Sandblast it and repaint it and it will look so sweet with those new rims and tires.

So don't buy one if you don't want it. Personally, would have preferred they did the JGC first.

Now that I look at it.. it was Dave quoting what U said. He does.. but my point still stands. EV is the way of the future.. or some derivative of it. ICEs running on Fossil fuels need to go. It simply is unsustainable Come to Baltimore.. areas such as Pikesville, which is a suburb. It literally has tens of thousands of homes just like that in the pic