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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proxim2020 wrote:
Ram: "All Ram Truck configurations are designed and engineered to perform equally in impact tests."
Chevrolet: "GM designs its vehicles to protect the occupants in a broad range of crashes. We also comprehend government and third-party crash test ratings, which customers use to compare vehicles. Performance in these tests is a result of the total system design of the vehicle. The new IIHS small overlap frontal test is part of our performance evaluation process. GM applies a common design approach to safety crashworthiness across all light duty pickup cab configurations."
And where does it say that they are exactly the same for all cab configs? You could say similar verbiage about Ford as they all passed the NHTSA tests. Which they all do, from all makers.
Let's put the GM and Ram offerings under the microscope and see how they do and what is similar and what is different.
It also seems that the Extended cabs do worse as a whole than crew cabs... Take a look at these:
2007 Silverado Crew Cab
2006 Silverado Extended Cab
Seems like the extended cab did a whole lot worse.
Not making excuses as there is no reason for those braces not to be there on the non crew cab designs but my guess is it wouldn't matter any way as non Crew Cabs tend to do worse in crash ratings.
