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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jerem0621 wrote:
This is unethical and downright deadly. To knowingly put people in harms way when you have the ability to save them for pennies is cruel, unethical, and just plain wrong.
How so? Both vehicles pass the federal crashworthiness tests which are the only ones that really matter. The IIHS is a group from the insurance industry and their ratings are not related to the ones from the US Government. This test was not added until very recently.
That being said nobody knows if those blockers would even make a difference. The only way to know would be to buy another extended cab, weld them on, and crash them. Given that extended cabs tend to do worse on this test than crew cabs (see the links I posted for the GM vehicles), it would be interesting to see. It would also either vindicate Ford (if indeed it does nothing) or paint them as an evil company.
