Hmmm....I fully welcome the combination of the truck's sales with the F-150, and compare that to the sales of the two GM trucks, and see who comes out on top...I'm pretty sure GM will. But I'm not in the mood to prove it, so I'll just assume and you should all believe me.

I've never see the board blown up with all this domestic talk before, it's great!

 

The cigarette and alcohol companies are not really allowed to hide the negative effects of using their products. Ford however, did hide the negative effects...

 

The GMC is the more expensive truck, IIRC.

 

Nobody's allowed to hide negative effects of products. Do you think the Surgeon generals warning has been on there forever? Also do you think it was the tobacco companies that came up with the warning?

 

Oh really!?! So how long have cigarettes and alcohol been around? And when did we in the US start to actually make regulations towards discloser for those industries? I'm quite sure that most of you weren't even alive. I remember when back in the 50, 60 or 70's when smoking was cool and was to some degree encourage. To top it off, I bet that you didn't even know that they used cartoons to entice younger children that smoking was cool. What, did you really think that the winston cup in nascar was named after a guy or something? No, the feds had to step in and make the tobaco industries stop advertising first on the tv...then in cartoon ads...then magazines & billboards and finally your beloved cars/teams in racing and nascar.
I might also add that the tobaco companies purposely did not inform the general public about any of the dangers of smoking when they all knew that not only did the tar cause cancer but that the nicotine was addicting...and most distrubing that children made up a 1/3 of tobaco use.
I still see the industries kicking out the same ol product with nothing more than a small paragraph in -100 font size on the side of all places warning you of the dangers of smoking.

Does this make what ford did right? Hell no, but I don't know of an automaker that is ready to throw the first stone either!

But your right Dave...this has gotten way off topic from "anybody want to watch a ship sink"

 

I agree.. If I remember correctly the old Izuzu Amigo's had a higher roll over rating than the explorers...

 

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So did the Montero's.

 

So now we've proved that Mitsu, Izuzu and Suzuki all produced suvs that they knew were inherently unstable and could roll over during extreme manuvering and still sold them.

So why aren't they the same as Ford again?

 

Because the thread originator drives an import so anything domestic is bad.