{"id":199590,"date":"2010-01-19T16:31:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T21:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=49312"},"modified":"2010-01-19T16:31:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T21:31:16","slug":"gm%e2%80%99s-vice-chairman-challenges-ford-to-heavy-duty-tug-of-war-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/199590","title":{"rendered":"GM\u2019s vice chairman challenges Ford to Heavy Duty tug of war match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49313 aligncenter\" title=\"GM \/ Ford Truck of War Matchup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/gm_ford_truck_of_war_pickuptrucks_main.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n<p>General Motors&#8217; vice chairman in charge of global product operations is challenging crosstown rival Ford to a tug of war matchup. The challenge include\u00a0two trucks that have yet to hit the market &#8211; the 2011 Chevrolet and GMC Heavy Duty and Ford&#8217;s 2011 F-Series Super Duty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re going to love our new diesel Duramax engine in the new Heavy Duty,&#8221; Stephens told <em>PickupTrucks.com<\/em> at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show. He then went onto say:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;You know what I want to do to prove it? I want to take our truck and Ford&#8217;s [new Super Duty] and chain them together back -to-back. Then I want to have them pull against each other. I know our truck will beat theirs.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>PickupTrucks.com has forwarded the challenge to Ford and has offered its services to referee such an event in Texas. Will it take place? Only time will tell.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Omar Rana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.pickuptrucks.com\/2010\/01\/truck-of-war-gms-vice-chairman-challenges-ford-to-hd-tug-of-war.html\">PickupTrucks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gANNnapX714xXT-klLXNWpxnBRM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gANNnapX714xXT-klLXNWpxnBRM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gANNnapX714xXT-klLXNWpxnBRM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gANNnapX714xXT-klLXNWpxnBRM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=teQnna3VX7o:6EBH9Q9mP70:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=teQnna3VX7o:6EBH9Q9mP70:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=teQnna3VX7o:6EBH9Q9mP70:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=teQnna3VX7o:6EBH9Q9mP70:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=teQnna3VX7o:6EBH9Q9mP70:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=teQnna3VX7o:6EBH9Q9mP70:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=teQnna3VX7o:6EBH9Q9mP70:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Motors&#8217; vice chairman in charge of global product operations is challenging crosstown rival Ford to a tug of war matchup. The challenge include\u00a0two trucks that have yet to hit the market &#8211; the 2011 Chevrolet and GMC Heavy Duty and Ford&#8217;s 2011 F-Series Super Duty. &#8220;You&#8217;re going to love our new diesel Duramax engine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}