GM Makes Big Investment in Michigan Plant - PickupTrucks.com
Ford re-tooled their plants to be able to handle the aluminum. Their truck(Ford) is now just 200 lbs heavier then Chevy. Chevy is building 2 new buildings closer to their plants to cut down on transportation cost and time. So how is Ford 5 years a head of Chevy. But they don't want to advertise that right now because it just proves that they are years behind ford. I don't want gm to switch to alum (and i think after consumers lack of acceptance in fords alum trucks gm may be still deciding to do it or not) but can you imagine how much lighter gm trucks would be than ford, who with alum can't even get down... I do have allot of people that i plow with that use fords and and NONE of them want the super dooty to switch to alum and two off them are ready to switch to gm the only reason they bought their last 2012 f250s was because they both have family... they both plow on the same route as me and they both have to rebuild there front ends every two years on there fords, and my 06 2500hd has only had it done once in 10 yrs of plowing and my plow weights 50lbs more that theirs. I have never seen where G M has stated they were going to a full aluminum truck like Ford. that after seeing the way Ford had turned out they both may go with a combination high strength steel, alum and fiber which is what the Euro. Source: news.pickuptrucks.com
