Ford reveals the pickup concepts it passed over for the Atlas

At January's Detroit Auto Show, Ford swiped some thunder from General Motors' unveiling of its new pickups with the Ford Atlas concept, a mockup of what a future version of the Ford F-Series could look like. Today, Ford pulled back the curtain on its thinking a bit by showing some of the ideas that went into the Atlas, including early sketches for two radically different ideas of what an American pickup should be.
The drawing above shows one early concept nicknamed "Bullet Train," which would have instantly fueled speculation that Ford was considering putting its truck line on a car-like unibody chassis, as it borrows the Aston Martin-ish grille and swept aerodynamics of every modern Ford car. On the other end of the spectrum, Ford designers imagined a boxy truck that might have once passed for a Hummer concept, which they dubbed "Locomotive," and which had far more influence on the final Atlas look: