Blacked out

https://www.lustinedodgejeep.net/ne...odbridge-681e19650a0e0ae7688a2609aefe4ab7.htm

Focusing solely on exterior, the blacked out version helps hide what I dislike about the front end.

I’d like to see a blacked out version with the Tesla screen and panoramic sunroof.

I also noticed a lighting upgrade. This one includes LED fogs, headlights, and tail lights. I’d like to see how these look at night. It also has blind spot indicators. I personally think they’re a little annoying in my car but you can turn the sound off.

I was driving by the local dealer a few days ago and spotted a Big Horn Black and stopped to look at it. The truck looks a little better without all the chrome, especially upfront. It has the black package and yet it was built with the brushed aluminum wheel to wheel side steps. Go figure!

The fit of the hood as it meets the unibrow is horrible. The monochrome look really highlights the problem, that the chrome hides a little. As I noticed at the auto show 2 months ago on the truck that was there, the hood looks like it is not fully latched the way as it sits above the unibrow. This is not a fit and finish issue, it is a poor design. How is this aerodynamic? The gap between the 2 pieces is horrible. I can fit my finger in the gap all the across the hood with no problem. How was this determined to be acceptable as a final design? Look at the hood to fender gap on the side of the hood compared to the front by the unibrow. The rest of the truck has nice tight gaps too. If they are going to insist on the unibrow, it needs to be raised higher to better fit the hood, and the grill made bigger too. Better still, get rid of the useless unibrow, and fix the front-end design. What we were given is a mess that even the aftermarket will have a hard time fixing.

The hood badges, while not as noticeable in black, are a cheap feeling plastic. The letters on the doors of the DS were a much better quality and looked way better too.

Overall, I think the design of this truck will not age well. The front-end needs redesigned asap. If sales tank, Ram has nobody to blame but themselves for putting out a half-baked design. We went from a truck that had distinctive design elements, to something that looks like a GMC/Chevy/Tundra mashup.

Truly awful... perhaps my least fav of all the current 1/2 tons

As to the gap at the hood. I don't think it is any kind of problem for aero because that would be a low pressure area from the air coming up of the front grill surround. I also think they had to leave a bigger gap there so that when you close the hood it could press down some to get the catch down low enough to get under the hook of the hood latch and then raise back up some to be secured by the latch. Because of how they designed where the gap is it looks to me like it had to be bigger. Now, why they decided to design it like that is another matter.

I honestly don't like what they've done with the 1500 Bage/Hemi badging on the hood.

Leaves no room for "debadging"....

Nissan did that. you got this big ole "ENDURANCE V8", actually carved into your side.
Nissan probably got so many complaints about that, they redesigned it only with stick on lettering.

Well if they are like GM and Ford now they’ll do a front end refresh every 2 years, maybe they’ll fix by 2022.

I doubt the front end design will cost them sales, the interior alone will sell it

wtf the blackout makes the truck look out of porportion

the cab is too tall and wide for the wheelbase its on, the stock tires look like civic wheels for the cab its on imo

FXCLM5 said:

the stock tires look like civic wheels for the cab its on imo

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Those wheels aren't any of ones RAM is offering on the new 1500. Those blacked out rims look so butt-ugly!

EDIT: I was wrong, it is an option... and worse, it's painted black from the factory! Nasty, black does not compliment that wheel style.