"actual" Braking Demonstration

[Guest chevydeerhunter]

Anybody seen this commercial on Fox NFL today where a F*rd pickup backs out of a moving C-130 attached to a chain. The F*rd, while being towed by the airplane, applies it's massive, titanious, better-than-everyone else's brakes and stops the plane. It may be able to stop it from a slow move, but from the implied speed they show???? IIRC, the normal approach speed is 115mph and it an operating weight of approx. 83,000lbs. I sooooo call BS on that!

[asilverblazer]

The tires alone would not be able to provide enough traction to stop the plane, at least ona runway, perhaps over the couse of several miles.

[04silverado1500]

just saw it while watching the vikings falcons game....BS!!!!!!!!!

[RyanbabZ71]

i seen it a dozen times already sick of it

[SilveradoLAX7]

i seen it a dozen times already sick of it

Seems to follow the trend set by Tojo... i.e. a truck supposedly doing stuff I don't need it to do. With a Toyota you can drive up and down an over-sized teeter-totter, with a Nissan you can take the bed off and shake it upside down by a giant robotic arm and stuff won't fall out (if i'm ever upside down, not the biggest of my worries). And now with a Ford I can stop a huge plane if I ever find myself needing to do so while being chained to it.

 

I'll take the commercial of the Sierra trucking through the mud. Chevy's getting a little long in the tooth with the nostalgic ads (its our country, we get it). To be completely honest I kinda like the dodge commercials I've seen; a truck doing what a truck does, while the narrator tells me why its the best and what deals I can get.

 

-Jay

[Guest chevydeerhunter]

Now the Nissan Titan has the strongest frame and they proved it by having a train tug at it. That'll come in handy whenever the thing stalls on the tracks.

[04z71steve]

cant wait to get as sick of that one as i am of watching the blundra commercials... saw a tundra up close and really personal this weekend, some guy a couple campsites down had a violet colored tundra he gave me the run around... i got sick to my stomach then gave him a tour of a real truck...

 

steve

[04z71steve]

anyone else notice how Chevy/GMC don't have to come up with annoying little commercials to sell their trucks...

 

steve

[2007 GMC HD]

The Toyota commercials get me, "towing 10,000 lbs " up and down a teter totter ...hmmmm. I guess the 10 k lbs must include the truck because that little trailer don't weigh no 10,000 lbs. unless its full of gold maybe.

I told my wife when we go camping to check how many folks tow with a Gm, last camping trip she said she never noticed that before . I'll stick with my GMC and know it can tow my 7K trailer and 2 K of firewood with ease .

[silverad03]

One of my favorite Ford commercials is when they bragged about how big/strong the bolts securing the bed to the frame are. They then supposedly hung a truck up in the air (by the bumper or frame) to prove how strong the bolts are that hold the bed to the frame. I got lost trying to make the connection...

 

I also like the one where they say the super duty has more payload capacity because the leaf springs are longer. How does making the leaf spring longer (other modifications aside) have anything to do with payload capacity? Isn't payload capacity more related to spring arch? I think longer springs just serve to give a softer ride.

 

Gotta love marketing...

[silverad03]

The Toyota commercials get me, "towing 10,000 lbs " up and down a teter totter ...hmmmm. I guess the 10 k lbs must include the truck because that little trailer don't weigh no 10,000 lbs. unless its full of gold maybe.

I told my wife when we go camping to check how many folks tow with a Gm, last camping trip she said she never noticed that before . I'll stick with my GMC and know it can tow my 7K trailer and 2 K of firewood with ease .

 

I too have noticed how many GM trucks you see pulling campers and travel trailers... good stuff!

[C & A s Dad]

I camp and of course pull with my Yuk XL. I make it a point to "survey" the campgrounds as we are out walking. It seems that the marjority of the trucks I see are Ford P/S 250s and 350s. Once you leave the larger campers, I see a lot of GM 1500 P ups, Burbs and Yukon XLs. But when it comes to the older folks who spend most of their time on the road towing, it seems to me it is mostly Ford P/S, then Dodge Cummins and last but not lease, GM D/As. However, I will say, I am seeing a lot more GM D/As than I used to.

 

This past Labor Day weekend, there were 3 or 4 Titans in the campground where we were. Of course, you have to remember, this campground is only 30 mins from the Nissan plant where they are built. The employee discount on these trucks is huge.

[gave20]

Seems to follow the trend set by Tojo... i.e. a truck supposedly doing stuff I don't need it to do. With a Toyota you can drive up and down an over-sized teeter-totter, with a Nissan you can take the bed off and shake it upside down by a giant robotic arm and stuff won't fall out (if i'm ever upside down, not the biggest of my worries). And now with a Ford I can stop a huge plane if I ever find myself needing to do so while being chained to it.

 

And with a chevy 3500 you can pull a freight train full of rail cars.

 

None of them have anything really spectacular to sell so they each highlight a insignificant point and run with it. Until a manufacturer finally comes up with something worth listening to in a 30 second sound bite other than worthless factoids drowned out by music from some washed up atrist from the 80's I'll continue to ignore them and base my purchase on experience and "real" world analysis.

[Zembonez]

Well, considering the fact that 85% of the population is as dumb as a box of Captain Crunch... it's really no wonder they flood us with such outlandish commercials. I would imagine the average idiot buys it hook line and sinker.

 

Thanks goodness we is all above average in here!

[Silverado4x4]

Well, considering the fact that 85% of the population is as dumb as a box of Captain Crunch... it's really no wonder they flood us with such outlandish commercials. I would imagine the average idiot buys it hook line and sinker.

 

Thanks goodness we is all above average in here!

Yeah like the toyota ad where it catches the contaner as it falls off the cliff then pulls it back up pure BS. Then the classic where the toyota pulls the heavy trailer up the ramp then back down the other side and stops it, then the small print pops up and says " trailer equipted with trailer brakes" hell my riding lawnmower could stop it if it had trailer brakes.