It’s not carbon fiber. Jalopnik called it carbon fiber but GMC never used those words. They said carbon or carbonPro. A carbon fiber truck bed would cost $20,000+ and even just a liner would be many thousands of dollars.

a 1% carbon content resin is still a carbon impregnated resin. They don’t do 60% carbon resins for parts that don’t need it because it’s expensive, so they adjust the levels accordingly to application. So yes, a pinch of carbon fiber in a batch is still a carbon impregnated composite.

I use all different variants of CFRP in both extremely low and extremely high temperature environments. The material properties are well established/understood through a large temperature range and even if you didn’t test at that specific temperature (which, they likely did), you can easily extrapolate its…

All of those ads mocking Ford for using aluminum in the bed may not come back to bite GM if they skip aluminum and go straight to carbon fiber.

Do you really think that the engineers are so dumb they didn’t consider this?

carbon impregnated plastic composite still uses carbon fibers. It just isn’t laid out in the weave pattern that is usually associated with carbon fiber. It’s a random alignment, which still adds strength and rigidity and reduces weight, while maintaining durability

You are correct that carbon fiber weave panels don’t like extensive periods of direct sunlight, but this isn’t a carbon fiber weave. It’s a carbon composite. The carbon fibers are used for structural rigidity and strengthening, while the composite side of that is useful for durability and forgiveness. Basically, it…

Considering that this is limited to the Denali and AT4 trim levels I doubt there will be many fleet/commercial sales of this bed.  I imagine this is one of those trickle down technologies that we will eventually see in more trim levels as the manufacturing costs go down and the material properties are further refined.

They never called it carbon fiber weave, did they?

$35k for a base model shit spec “usable machine” from a company that can’t build quality vehicles? No thanks.  

Where is the badge that says “I’m brave enough to order any FCA product”,,,,Oh...that is the Jeep badge in this instance....

Except there isn’t a sister-brand truck in this segment. And the rest of the segment is available with smaller cabs and longer beds. Considering the effort they went to just to be able to say the truck has “best-in-class” towing (even going so far as to make up their own class for it) you’d think they actually want to…

Raptor Launch Edition Guy- Launching

Are there actually people who would spend +-$45000 dollars on a vehicle and go bang it up off road? This is something I wonder a lot as I drive around Metro Denver.

The “Launch Edition” Jeep buyer is the only true Jeep guy. The kind of Jeep guy that views problems as “character” and carries around a full tool box.

How many years before the “I bought a $750 Gladiator” and I’m going to drive it across Africa” story????

And that logic just proves my point. It’s a useless fashion accessory, and frankly FCA wasted engineering dollars on that cooling system just so they could claim it’s the best at one thing in their made-up class.

Buy them up  now. I predict that within five years Jeep discontinues this thing because everyone who was totally going to buy a Jeep pickup decided they would only buy it used.

I paid $27,000 for an optioned out base model Colorado(saved $1500 by going WT instead of LT, just don’t have bluetooth buttons and 17" rims), with a better ride/ergonomics and a bigger bed. Other than looking like a tool bag, what is the point of paying an asshole price for the most unreliable brand?

So what you’re saying is my 2017 Toyota Tacoma TRD Off Road, 6 speed manual, with locking diff, navigation, moon roof, heated seats, heated mirrors, dual zone climate control, blind spot monitoring, parking sensors, and under seat storage similar to what the Gladiator has was about $500 more than a base model…