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  1. The guy who presents these commercials is Potsch Boyd, a 2 bit actor pretending to work for GM, who knows nothing about about trucks. 5' 11" and 140 lbs? Gain some weight, stick boy! http://resumes.breakdownexpress.com/346253-2242828
  2. Both Ram and GM have the sliding rear seats. Reviewers are going to have a problem with the Ford rear seats now. PUTC is already complaining about the front seats constantly.
  3. Ford is going to have to add more tie downs. Widen the cargo bed eventually. And make the rear seats recline.
  4. from: http://www.tfltruck.com/2018/01/new-2019-ram-1500-ram-rebel-join-fight-everything-know-video/
  5. Agree with these posters' comment on PUTC. "Amazing work from ram considering all chevy was change the body and keep the exact same interior." "Honestly looks better than the new silverado inside and out" http://news.pickuptrucks.com The new Ram is more impressive than the Chevy.
  6. A 6.5' bed F-150 SuperCrew is very rare. They had to make the bed smaller than the F-150. Almost all F-150 crewcabs are 5.5' bed. Hence, 5' bed Ranger crewcab.
  7. TFL is posting a Ranger video at midnight. The Ranger unveil is tomorrow at 4:30pm. http://www.tfltruck.com/2018/01/2019-chevy-silverado-naias-2018-reveal-news/
  8. Race Red is one of the worst colors and gives me a headache. But I'd take it for free or a very heavy discount.
  9. True but they also talked about full-size trucks in general and how Ford is leading the pack.
  10. "Ford upped its advertising budget?" Maybe, but Ford won it last year and should have won it in 2015. Looks like they sent 4 trucks this time to be sure to get the win. PS GM fanbois buttheart on PUTC: "The judges were impressed by the two new naturally aspirated, direct-injection engines..." I'm presuming we're hearing that Motor Trend judges were impressed with a 3.3 liter V6 in a truck that weighs close to 5 thousand pounds with a couple of my passengers on board. Among the great cars that have 'earned' the Motor Trend award are the Gremlin and the Chevy Vega. Hardly a distinguished award. Posted by: papajim | Nov 28, 2017 1:51:35 PM http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2017/11/motor-trend-names-the-2018-ford-f-150-truck-of-the-year.html
  11. Ford silences its critics with a midcycle F-150 that is simply dominant Ford gambled more than $1 billion and abandoned seven decades of steel bodywork to create a 2015 F-150 with an aluminum body. Dropping a claimed 700 pounds would improve fuel economy, increase towing capacity, improve power-to-weight ratios, and create a truck with fewer parts subject to rust. The move was bold and expensive. Two truck plants closed for 13 weeks each to gut the body shop. Months of downtime meant the lost sale of 60,000 trucks valued at $40,000 or higher, followed by a slow rollout. Ford endured a year of lost market share and profits. Critics called it an unnecessary and costly mistake. Once the new F-150 arrived, Ford had to fend off GM’s allegations that aluminum wasn’t as tough as Chevy steel. And Ford still was trailing the fuel efficiency chase to the Ramdiesel. Ford fought back, saying reducing weight was just step one in a more comprehensive reimagining of the F-150. Still to come were a new powertrain lineup with new engines, improvements to existing ones, and a new transmission. Patience, Ford pleaded. We’re just getting started. Three years ago, we determined the new F-150 had a nice body but that not all the details had been sorted out. The F-150 lost the Motor Trend 2015 Truck of the Year title to the Chevrolet Colorado. Fast-forward to today. For 2018 Truck of the Year testing, Ford gave us four variants to show the breadth of the changes under the hood. Ford has been busy; the interiors have gotten nicer, the infotainment system more intuitive, the steering better. The F-150 chassis is stupendous, the innovations have increased, and it has earned an NHTSA five-star safety rating. It was unanimous. The Ford F-150 is Motor Trend’s 2018 Truck of the Year. “It was a pretty resounding win,” road test editor Chris Walton said. “Nothing really came close.” Read more: http://www.motortrend.com/news/ford-f-150-2018-truck-of-the-year/ PS Mike Levine‏ @mrlevine 9h9 hours agoMore Super proud and happy for our team to see that Ford F-150 and Super Duty have won back-to-back Motor Trend Truck of the Year awards for the entire 2017 and 2018 F-Series lineup: https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2017/11/27/new-f-150-named-2018-motor-trend-truck-of-the-year.html …
  12. This is direct from Ford: The all-new Ford Ranger will be tailored to the needs of North American customers with unique front styling, engines and features. You guys who are experts on Ranger can see if the front end is unique or not. If it's the same, then this is the global Ranger and not the North American Ranger.
  13. Is this front end different from the global? If not, then this isn't the truck we are getting. Mike Levine said the North American Ranger will have different front styling. This looks like the global Ranger to me and that is why it is only camouflaged and not covered with a tarp.
  14. Don't forget incentives so even with taxes it won't be $100k. and not everyone has to buy the F-450 version.
  15. "Despite the engineer's best efforts to block the camera from capturing the dashboard, and his follow-up admonition that 'You are not supposed to do that!' we can now see the interior that is fitted to the Ranger test trucks being developed in America...Grabbing these photos motivated a Ford engineer to get a little physical and threaten to 'bust up' my camera, with a few choice F-bombs for effect. Just mentioning that for the record." Link: http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2017/09/2019-ford-ranger-interior-engine-spied.html
  16. https://twitter.com/mrlevine/status/905734005655568385
  17. What if Edge and Escape buyers treated their vehicles like the F-150 buyers treat F-150?
  18. The all-new Ford Ranger will be tailored to the needs of North American customers with unique front styling, engines and features. — Mike Levine (@mrlevine) January 9, 2017
  19. Will the Ranger have an aluminum body or not?
  20. We’ve Temporarily Removed Comments As part of our ongoing efforts to make MotorTrend.com better, faster, and easier for you to use, we’ve temporarily removed comments as well as the ability to comment. We’re testing and reviewing options to possibly bring comments back. As always, thanks for reading MotorTrend.com. ------- smh.
  21. Chevy released a new commercial that turns up the heat by also calling into question some of Ford's performance claims for the Super Duty. In the spot, former football star Howie Long and Eric Stanczak, chief engineer, full-size trucks at General Motors, have the following exchange before the toolbox drop: Long: "You hear after our toolbox test where the F-150 aluminum bed got punctured, they've now beefed up the bed of their new Super Duty?" Stanczak: "Oh, yeah? Let's test it." Long:​ "Is that the same toolbox they used in the steel vs. aluminum bed test commercial?" Stanczak: "That's correct." Long: "Totally empty?" Stanczak: "Yup." Long: "Nothing in there?" Stanczak: "You got it. You ready?" Stanczak then places the red metal toolbox on the side of the bed and shoves it off, gashing a hole in the Super Duty bed. Long: "They made the aluminum bed of the Super Duty 30 percent stronger, and the​ toolbox still punctured the bed." http://www.autonews.com/article/20170717/RETAIL03/170719780/chevy-pokes-a-hole-in-fords-truck-again ------------- If the first ad doesn't work, try, try again!
  22. Yep. I heard that they are half-assing the aluminum intensity. Things like the hood (currently) and door skins will be the aluminum. The rest will be even thinner paper-thin steel.
  23. I wouldn't be surprised if this allows GM to pull upsets against Ford in the diesel truck shootouts. Just like Ram said they had the best fuel economy for years but forgot to mention the engine was illegal. There's a whole lot of scamming going on with trucks.
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