Top 10 Pickup Truck Innovations

9. Active Aerodynamics

With the huge emphasis on fuel economy that is being placed on pickup trucks now a days, automakers are doing everything they can to make their heavy duty haulers use less gas.

Beyond sculpting the sheet metal for better aerodynamics, Ram went as far as putting active grille shutters on its new trucks to help make it cut through the air better at highway speeds.

Ford showed off the future of its active aero with the Atlas concept, which included not only active grille shutters, but active wheel shutters as well that pop down from in front of the wheel wells.