F-150 is by far the safest truck

"Mythlin" (kxcmiles)
04/12/2016 at 12:58 • Filed to: None

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How does Oppo feel about this video? I see a lot of manufactures saying its silly for Ford to use aluminum but then if we look at these crash test safety ratings Ford is the only one who can achieve a “good” in every category. I’m really shocked at how poor the performance of the Ram and Tundra are as well, does this change your opinion about any of these trucks?

DISCUSSION (8)

MUSASHI66 > Mythlin
04/12/2016 at 13:03

Older vehicles were not designed to beat small overlap crash test. It became a requirement fairly recently, and almost 100% of vehicles designed before that requirement do really poorly on it (well, with the exception of older Volvo XC90). Ford is a brand new vehicle - Tundra is old, Ram is old, and I am not sure how current GM vehicles are when it comes to the chassis.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Mythlin
04/12/2016 at 13:09

I never had a problem with them, they look nice, good quality. I don’t need a truck like that though.

jariten1781 > Mythlin
04/12/2016 at 13:20

Ford installed a bunch of additional bolt-on bracing for the front offset test after they got caught red-handed sending ringers to get evaluated. I imagine the other manufacturers will do the same on the next refresh, but yeah for now I think the F150 has scored highest on all the tests since the update. If safety is your primary concern go for it, but I'm not a fan of the offset test so everything but the Rams are GTG safety wise for me.

HammerheadFistpunch > Mythlin
04/12/2016 at 13:20

Looks like Ford was fast to make the changes that the others haven’t. I suspect that GM will quickly add additional bracing in their line and RAM had better...but...Toyota isn’t going to do squat since they are likely neck deep into the new model already.

BorkBorkBjork > MUSASHI66
04/12/2016 at 13:38

I think the current GM chassis was designed -just- before the small overlap tests came out.

for Michigan > jariten1781
04/12/2016 at 13:59

There were never any ringers. The Super Crew had four reinforcements that weren’t present in the SuperCab or regular cab trucks, but every F-150 made was built that way, not just those that were tested.

jariten1781 > for Michigan
04/12/2016 at 14:07

True, but I consider them ringers since they specifically installed that bracing knowing that only that configuration would be tested. If they had stuck to their PR speak afterwards that the braces were unnecessary for safety in the other cab configurations and those were tested receiving the same results that'd be one thing, but instead they had to install the bracing on the other configurations to get them up to the rating they'd been claiming based on the previous tests. It wasn't even close either...without the bracing they were rated poor and with it they were rated at the highest rating. That's a shit move and, while it may stretch the ringer definition, it's good enough for me.

Pickup_man > HammerheadFistpunch
04/12/2016 at 14:24

The 2016 GM’s have already added some additional bracing to the front of the frame compared to the 2015 trucks. Some of the late 2015 trucks have the mounting points and inserts for the bracing, but the extra bracing didn’t come until the 2016 trucks. Based on this I don’t expect GM to add much more, at least not for a while. Ram has also added some additional bracing and bracketry on the driver side only of 2016 models built after June of 2015, so I don’t expect them to do much either, although Ram likes to change all sorts of little crap that goes unnoticed by nearly everyone. They gotta be close to a new model as well.

I’m an engineer at a pickup accessories company, I know all these little changes because they are the bane of my existence. Every time you think you’re product is good to go, someone goes and changes something. (Ram is by far the worst for this)