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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itguy08 wrote:
In this case they all have been found guilty of this practice. So unless yo want to custom build a TV you're stuck.
So you say you would never use "they all do it" as an excuse, except when they all do it?
In which case you could still choose the builder with the fewest RECENT incidents, or the least serious incidents. So Jeremiah still has a pretty solid case on avoiding Ford. I'd guess GM would be the most logical alternative.
itguy08 wrote:
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.
You've exactly nailed why we can surmise Ford is guilty. They've likely tested with, and without it in their testing facilities. On all models.
When confronted with this discrepancy,how did Ford respond? If testing had showed no difference, they could have avoided the whole issue, immediately, with a simple statement. "Our crash testing showed no additional benefit to these devices when installed on Extended and Regular cab trucks." Show some basic crash test evidence, and the whole problem goes away. Immediately. Easy solution.
They didn't do that. We heard gibberish about optimizing for public domain (crash tests). That means they either didn't test (inexcusable). Or they tested, and already knew the unreinforced models would test poorly compared to the SuperCabs. Inexcusable.
There aren't any good excuses for Ford here, or we'd have already heard them.
