This one seems to provide a bit more insight.

 

Thanks for posting, but I was referring to the allegation that the video is fake. Your video seems to demonstrate the opposite.

From my end, and having worked with high strength aluminums for many years, the test only serves to demonstrate that if you haul loads that have a high likelihood of point loading, the chebby may be a better material choice. Along the same lines, put some hardened aluminum in a sheet metal brake and try to bend at a tight radius, the aluminum will snap and chromoly steel will not. It doesn't have much to do with the suitability of the material for any application.

I can buy that chebby is distorting the truth by taking a well known property of hardened aluminum out of context to influence a generally ignorant consumer, but don't see any evidence of the test being faked.

 

Heck, if you are planning on doing anything close to what's in the video, throw a piece of plywood in the box. $20 and your set for the bottom of the box at least.

They did the test multiple times, the GM bed was punctured several times. All they did was pick the best result Gm and the worst result Ford. They saw blood and figured they could have a higher impact by using the "toolbox" comparison. It still seems that the toolbox test was doctored a little bit.

In the end, the attack ad stinks of desperation.

 

It's rather comical that GM is using this attack ad while secretly developing their own aluminum truck.

About a year ago I was in the waiting room at a doctors office and there was a snooty car magazine. Inside there was an article comparing the 15 model half tons from the big three. What I found interesting was the aluminum Ford was only 50 lbs lighter than a comparable GM while the Dodge was still over 5K lbs. I guess that's why the GM twins feel like tin cans and don't hold up as well when used repeatedly as a truck. But it does explain why the GM's always seemed to get better mileage than Ford or Dodge, they were a good 500+ lbs lighter than the competition (when Ford's were still made out of steel). I myself would rather have slightly less mileage for a much better truck. And if I were to dump sharp rocks into an unprotected bed, it would be in a stripped XL work truck. But then again I wouldn't be stupid enough to do that I would get some kind of protection, no matter what brand it was.

 

This is nothing new Chevy has always tried to find a weakness in Ford trucks and use it as a marketing ploy. I seen several classic ads on youtube that showed this from the 50's up to today they been doing this kind of stuff.

 

This video making all this racket is such a joke. Anyone that pays what these trucks cost is putting a bed liner in it ESPECIALLY the businessman that has a fleet of work trucks. Chevy is just butthurt that Ford was AGAIN to market with a better truck, that has better tech, looks, performance, towing, and most of all SALES. GM is second fiddle most likely 3rd fiddle actually because Dodge and Toyota have come SO far but the King still reigns. This video will come back to haunt them once they come out with the aluminum truck they're trying to develop.....you know because they FOLLOW THE LEADER. end thread/

 

I see GM keeping with a steel bed floor to save face because of stupid stunts like this. However, in true GM fashion they will cheap out and skimp on the sealant between the two types of metal and have galvanic corrosion issues.

 

I'm sure that GM will try and find a "different" way of doing AL, just to be different than Ford. If they go with both AL and steel for the body panels, they will have to have two set's of tooling and panel making processes. One of the reasons for went all AL, was efficiency.