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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jtallon wrote:
Seems to me that's what Jeremiah is doing, avoiding poor practices.
True - but they all have been found guilty of cutting corners WRT to safety. So no matter who you pick you are going to have to support bad practices; you have 0 choice.
In the other thread, the inference was that if you have a choice to support a company that manufactures bad products vs one that doesn't you should go with the one that doesn't. In that case an infotainment system and vehicle that cannot be hacked from outside the vehicle.
In this case they all have been found guilty of this practice. So unless yo want to custom build a TV you're stuck.
Ford is in the wrong here. Badly. This is a poor practice that is best avoided. Hopefully they'll fix it for '16, or at least '17.
Yeah - they are in the wrong. But we don't know if those changes would have done anything. Look at the video 0 the tires appear to go in the same places in both versions. Structurally it just makes sense that a cab with an A-B-C pillar arrangement like crew cabis going to crumple less than one with an A pillar - huge hole - C Pillar.
There's really not much to argue. These trucks would be safer if the additions made to the crewcab were made to the other versions.
We don't know that. The only one that knows that is Ford as I'm sure they did testing with and without it in their labs. I doubt the IIHS or even NHTSA is going to bolt or weld those pieces on and then run another crash test.
It could very well be that with or without those pieces the same 'marginal" result would be obtained. It would also have been interesting to crash the 2 versions of the competitors pickups and see if there were any differences in the cab configurations.
