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GM Crushed Ford In July Pickup Sales

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Marketing people at the car companies are as good as banksters at cooking the books. If you look only at 3/4 and 1 ton trucks the market leader by a wide margin is Ram. Ford sells more 1/2 ton pickups and as it is critical to the company's profitability they put a lot more time and money into R&D. Ford uses a lot of aluminum to reduce weight and they are two years ahead of GM in providing 8-speed transmissions. The Ford 1/2 ton trucks provide greater payloads thanks to their 700 lb. weight savings with aluminum. If I was buying a gas powered 1/2 ton pickup it would be either a Ford or a Toyota. I bought a Chevy 3/4 ton to get the diesel engine and IFS and for no other reason.

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Ram just sold another half-ton this weekend. My brother bought a '16 Longhorn. Damn nice vehicle, although I wasn't to crazy about the unserviceable 8-speed throwaway transmission. Seems all manufacturers have jumped on that bandwagon.

 

Yet another of hundreds of reasons I'll never buy new again. I'll keep fixing my decades old junk until there's nothing left to fix. Then, I'll buy a horse .

Colossus Senior Enthusiast

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Actually Ford and GM jointly designed the 8-Speed, just like they did the 6-Speed.

Jsdirt Senior Enthusiast

Jsdirt

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That figures.

 

Why don't they just all merge and get it over with? :dunno:

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