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Well this is just too bad. As you may recall, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/01/19/gm-challenges-ford-to-heavy-duty-pickup-tug-of-war/">Pickuptrucks.com was chatting with Tom Stephens</a>, GM's vice chairman of global product operations, about GM's new heavy duty pickup trucks. Suddenly Stephens said something quite interesting: <br />
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<div><em>"You know what I want to do to prove it? I want to take our truck and </em><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/ford/"><em>Ford</em></a><em>'s [new <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/super+duty">Super Duty</a>] and chain them together back-to-back. Then I want to have them pull against each other. I know our truck will beat theirs."<br />
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</blockquote>How cool would that have been? Supremely cool. However, Ford chooses to think different. Via twitter, Ford was asked by a Pickuptrucks.com reader if they'd accept the challenge. Ford said, "We typically don't respond to challenges. We let the vehicles speak for themselves." Ford ended their statement with <a href="http://www.fordvehicles.com/newsevents/news/newsdetail/?id=232&intcmp=2010-c-33years-f150">this link</a> illustrating that the Ford F Series has been America's best selling vehicle for 33 years straight. As we used to say in 4th grade, "Oooh! Burned!"<br />
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Still, we would have really loved to watch a tug of war. Who would have won? Probably a Dodge. On a semi-related note, Pickuptrucks.com's Mike Levine was bragging via Facebook about the <a href="http://autoblog.com/model/raptor">Ford SVT Raptor</a> he's driving this week. We asked him if he would like to chain it to the 470-hp <a href="http://autoblog.com/model/xf">Jaguar XF Supercharged</a> we're driving this week and have ourselves a little tug of war. Levine's response, "Only if we do it in mid-air." Touché.<br />
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[Source: <a href="http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2010/01/truck-of-war-ford-to-gm-no-thanks.html">Pickuptrucks.com</a>]<br />
<blockquote> </blockquote><p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/01/27/ford-turns-down-heavy-duty-tug-of-war-challenge-with-gm/">Ford turns down Heavy Duty tug of war challenge with GM</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblog</a> on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:20:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/01/27/ford-turns-down-heavy-duty-tug-of-war-challenge-with-gm/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19334594/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a> | <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/01/27/ford-turns-down-heavy-duty-tug-of-war-challenge-with-gm/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>
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Well this is just too bad. As you may recall, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/01/19/gm-challenges-ford-to-heavy-duty-pickup-tug-of-war/">Pickuptrucks.com was chatting with Tom Stephens</a>, GM's vice chairman of global product operations, about GM's new heavy duty pickup trucks. Suddenly Stephens said something quite interesting: <br />
<blockquote>
<div><em>"You know what I want to do to prove it? I want to take our truck and </em><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/ford/"><em>Ford</em></a><em>'s [new <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/super+duty">Super Duty</a>] and chain them together back-to-back. Then I want to have them pull against each other. I know our truck will beat theirs."<br />
</em></div>
</blockquote>How cool would that have been? Supremely cool. However, Ford chooses to think different. Via twitter, Ford was asked by a Pickuptrucks.com reader if they'd accept the challenge. Ford said, "We typically don't respond to challenges. We let the vehicles speak for themselves." Ford ended their statement with <a href="http://www.fordvehicles.com/newsevents/news/newsdetail/?id=232&intcmp=2010-c-33years-f150">this link</a> illustrating that the Ford F Series has been America's best selling vehicle for 33 years straight. As we used to say in 4th grade, "Oooh! Burned!"<br />
<br />
Still, we would have really loved to watch a tug of war. Who would have won? Probably a Dodge. On a semi-related note, Pickuptrucks.com's Mike Levine was bragging via Facebook about the <a href="http://autoblog.com/model/raptor">Ford SVT Raptor</a> he's driving this week. We asked him if he would like to chain it to the 470-hp <a href="http://autoblog.com/model/xf">Jaguar XF Supercharged</a> we're driving this week and have ourselves a little tug of war. Levine's response, "Only if we do it in mid-air." Touché.<br />
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[Source: <a href="http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2010/01/truck-of-war-ford-to-gm-no-thanks.html">Pickuptrucks.com</a>]<br />
<blockquote> </blockquote><p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/01/27/ford-turns-down-heavy-duty-tug-of-war-challenge-with-gm/">Ford turns down Heavy Duty tug of war challenge with GM</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblog</a> on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:20:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/01/27/ford-turns-down-heavy-duty-tug-of-war-challenge-with-gm/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19334594/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a> | <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/01/27/ford-turns-down-heavy-duty-tug-of-war-challenge-with-gm/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>
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