GM's 2020 tow rating question for all
GM as we know recently announced their '20 tow ratings which is about time they upped things. Anyways, what get's me is how their SRW can now tow 18,000. Seems odd that there can be that much of a jum...
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ksss wrote:I Remember back in 2010 or 2011 when Ford had released it's power numbers, and actually started selling trucks with those numbers IIRCC, Ford was 380HP or so. GM then released their SAE certified numbers. 397HP The Ford faithfull were aghast! Ford then quickly raised it's number to 420HP or so, and then offered to reflash the trucks already sold, so that their owners could claim they had the highest rated HP.
The fact that GM has done as well in "real world tests" as they have given they are almost always the one with the lightest overall spec sheet is interesting. On paper they shouldn't be close and GM should never win. The argument to made is whether or not winning by 5 sec. or 30 sec. really matters to someone. However since we are just talking about winning the pull up and down the hill, the GM trucks do a lot of winning in that regard.
I find it ironic that FORD who usually has the strongest spec sheet, has more 3 rd place honors than the other two by far. Maybe they are tired of that and will actually live up to their spec sheet this next year.
Then they competed in the IKE run.. Ford lost to GM by IIRCC, about 30 seconds.
One thing that Ford did learn from this, is to never release your numbers first.
