LAST AUTO NEWS – GM CHALLENGES FORD TO TRUCK TUG O' WAR
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And we anticipation the calm barter wars couldn’t get any manlier.
Automobile Magazine reports, ” It’s simple abundant to affirmation aloof rights in the able barter segment, but for the next abundance of its Chevrolet Silverado HD — destined to barrage at the Chicago auto appearance — GM has a altered idea: Claiming the Ford Super Duty to a accurate tug of war.”
The gauntlet was befuddled down in a Pickuptrucks.com account with GM carnality administrator in allegation of all-around artefact operations, Tom Stephens. Stephens told the site, “You’re traveling to adulation our new agent Duramax engine in the new Heavy Duty,” and added “You apperceive what I wish to do to prove it? I wish to yield our barter and Ford’s [new Super Duty] and alternation them calm aback -to-back. Then I wish to acquire them cull adjoin anniversary other. I apperceive our barter will exhausted theirs.”
It is, as Pickuptrucks.com says, “a able account of aplomb in the new haulers.”
But Stephens ability be captivated to it. Autoblog letters “After authoritative abiding Stephens was austere [Pickuptrucks.com] contacted Ford to see if it was absorbed in the challenge. He hasn’t gotten an official acknowledgment yet, but he’s accessible to play adjudicator and set up an accident in Texas to pit the two H-D haulers adjoin anniversary other. Consider the gauntlet thrown. Ford? We anxiously anticipate your response…”
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