Buying a 2015 Ford F150? Get the Supercrew.
There's no way to way to post this without looking like it's brand bashing, so I'll open with this: If safety is a primary concern, buy a Ford F150 Supercrew. It has fantastic crash ratings, I assume...
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Fast Mopar wrote:
The Ford spokeswoman was asked why the protectors were on the crew cab but not other versions, she said, “It’s something that we do regularly. It’s to optimize the structure. All of that is to meet regulatory requirements and achieve public domain ratings.”
Basically Ford is gaming the system by improving only the tracking vehicle they knew would be used to set the safety ratings. And she said it's "something we do regularly" - so that means more of the same across the Ford fleet.
Built Ford Tough. Well, as long as it is the supercrew.
This statement didn't help them either:
Ford says that the small overlap test was introduced half way through the development of the F-150 and that it chose to add additional steel support structures to the four-door version of the F-150 first because that truck is 83% of all F-150 trucks sold.
They knew that the IIHS only crashed the most popular cab configuration. Well that is until now. Seems like they beefed up the version that they knew would be crashed. Ram and GM both have said that their crash protection is the same throughout their different cab configurations.
