Yahoo Autos Ram small pickup truck spy photos show scaled-down 1500 looks
The new small Ram pickup truck has been caught again, this time with less camouflage, production lighting and in the United States. It gives us our best look yet at the styling of smaller sibling to the full-size 1500, from which this truck takes inspiration. But we also get a good look at the rear end, giving us a better idea of its chassis and mechanicals.
It's clear from the shape and proportions of this prototype that it's a unibody pickup truck with a transverse-mounted engine and probably powertrains that are front-wheel-drive biased. There's no gap between the cab and bed, and the distance between the base of the windshield and the wheels is very short. The cab does look pretty sizable and accommodating, and the bed is a bit on the short side. Being unibody, this is probably the only configuration, but that's very much in line with the Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz, likely its direct competitors.
What we can see of the little Ram's nose seems extremely similar to the look of the full-size 1500. It has the tall hood line, strong bulge over the grille and wide LED headlights. The rest of the body looks fairly clean, though still a little hard to make out under the coverings. The bed sides do look pretty tall, and the rear wheels are positioned fairly low, possibly to help keep wheel wells from intruding too much into the bed.
While it's tough to gauge size without any cars nearby and away from parking spots, it does seem to be bigger than the current unibody Ram 700/Fiat Toro on sale in South America and Central America. And it's likely not too far off the size of the Maverick.
