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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AuroraGirl" data-source="post: 25700" data-attributes="member: 9417">the 180 degree door opening for an extended cab is kinda coolI have literally nothing else to say of the gmt900 that is to its benefit. it was peak bailout GM, they spent a LOT of money engineering them to be econoboxes that allowed them to extract higher margins from buyers because while it shared a lot of frame/suspension engineering , everything else on it was cheaper for GM, so they could sell it for the same amount and make more money than already high margins trucks were becoming. I see gmt800 as the last "truck is truck" and gmt900 as "truck is accessory"They also seem to be rusting worse than any gmt800 on the body, probably cheap steel or cheapened paints/coatings.  PRe-bailout GM Rick Wagoner (who had no hand in designing the gmt800, thankfully) was putting the companys future on the gmt900, i actually read that in a 200x state of the company pdf i found online.  the company was bloated to no end and was trying to cheapen things for that higher margin. the fact they werent profitable goes to many reasons but gmt900 wasnt going to change that on its own</blockquote>