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With the absolution of best-in-class towing and burden figures, General Motors just told Ford and its F-Series Super Duty calendar to shut up and sit down.

Autoblog reports: “General Motors has just arise the carriage capacities for the 2011 Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD pickups. The new trucks can now cull up to 21,700 pounds in fifth-wheel agreement and lug about 6,635 pounds account of payload, thereby authoritative them the new best-in chic champions.”

The achievement comes as a aftereffect of contempo innovations. “The trucks’ sheetmetal hasn’t afflicted abundant but an all-new, high-strength anatomy is army below the body,” explains Automobile Magazine. “The revised 6.6-liter Duramax V-8 puts out a class-leading 397 application and 765 pound-feet of torque, college than aggressive Cummins and Power Stroke products. The driveline, transmission, and abeyance aswell accustomed added absorption to ensure the able trucks would accomplish in the a lot of ambitious of settings.”

However, Ford hasn’t been absolutely exhausted out. PickupTrucks.com notes: “Ford still holds assimilate the best all-embracing fifth-wheel towing figure. The F-450 is rated to tow up to 24,400 pounds compared with a new best 21,700 pounds (up from 20,000 pounds) for the Silverado and Sierra 3500. Comparing apples-to-apples, the F-350 is alone rated to tow up to 21,600 pounds.” PT continues: “Ford aswell retains the better gross accumulated weight rating, at 33,000 pounds for the F-450. GM’s one-ton 3500 trucks, however, are now rated at 29,200 pounds max GCWR vs. 29,100 for the F-350 and 25,400 for the Ram 3500 HD.”

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