{"id":239422,"date":"2010-01-27T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/27\/ford-turns-down-heavy-duty-tug-of-war-challenge-with-gm\/"},"modified":"2010-01-27T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T21:20:00","slug":"ford-turns-down-heavy-duty-tug-of-war-challenge-with-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/239422","title":{"rendered":"Ford turns down Heavy Duty tug of war challenge with GM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Detroit Auto Show<\/a>, Truck<\/a>, Etc.<\/a>, Work<\/a>, Ford<\/a>, GM<\/a><\/p>\n

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Well this is just too bad. As you may recall, Pickuptrucks.com was chatting with Tom Stephens<\/a>, GM’s vice chairman of global product operations, about GM’s new heavy duty pickup trucks. Suddenly Stephens said something quite interesting: <\/p>\n

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“You know what I want to do to prove it? I want to take our truck and <\/em>Ford<\/em><\/a>‘s [new Super Duty<\/a>] and chain them together back-to-back. Then I want to have them pull against each other. I know our truck will beat theirs.”
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How cool would that have been? Supremely cool. However, Ford chooses to think different. Via twitter, Ford was asked by a Pickuptrucks.com reader if they’d accept the challenge. Ford said, “We typically don’t respond to challenges. We let the vehicles speak for themselves.” Ford ended their statement with this link<\/a> illustrating that the Ford F Series has been America’s best selling vehicle for 33 years straight. As we used to say in 4th grade, “Oooh! Burned!”<\/p>\n

Still, we would have really loved to watch a tug of war. Who would have won? Probably a Dodge. On a semi-related note, Pickuptrucks.com’s Mike Levine was bragging via Facebook about the Ford SVT Raptor<\/a> he’s driving this week. We asked him if he would like to chain it to the 470-hp Jaguar XF Supercharged<\/a> we’re driving this week and have ourselves a little tug of war. Levine’s response, “Only if we do it in mid-air.” Touché.<\/p>\n

[Source: Pickuptrucks.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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