Basic Motors has decided to promote truthful payload weight ratings on all of its 2015 pickups soon after a recent post by Automotive News known as out the automaker for stripping out regular parts to make the trucks seem a lot more capable.
The most current move, first reported by Yahoo Autos, indicates GM will now use the genuine curb weights of its base trucks to decide the payload ratings it publishes on its sites and other marketing materials. GM had been playing a bit loose with the ratings since the 2014 model year began to much better compete against Ford—including deleting rear bumpers and swapping steel wheels for alloys on trucks for which they’re unavailable—and to obtain the highest achievable payload ratings.
Until last week, GM had defended ripping out rear bumpers and other parts because the company gives “business customers” the option to order trucks without those parts. However much less than 2 weeks after AN outed the automaker for the practice, it has now pulled a 180.
“As this story unfolded, we took a appear at how the complete industry does this, and almost everyone uses base curb weight,” GM spokesman Tom Wilkinson told AN. “We thought the ideal factor to do was line up with the rest of the market to make these comparisons as straightforward as attainable for buyers.”
GM did not specify exactly when it would begin reporting the new ratings or how significantly they would alter but mentioned it would apply them to all 2015 light- and heavy-duty trucks, such as the smaller sized GMC Canyon and Chevy Colorado models. To its credit, GM has also embraced SAE standards for establishing towing ratings on its light-duty trucks, another hotly contested numerical battle amongst pickup producers that is slowly getting standardized.
Ford, which has been gaming weights with its heavy-duty trucks considering that 2011, is now the only pickup manufacturer continuing to mislead American customers on its ratings. (Ram, Nissan, and Toyota say they use base curb weights with all stock components fitted to the car when marketing payload figures.) The Dearborn-based automaker is continuing to calculate heavy-duty payload ratings by removing products such as jacks, spare tires, center consoles, and radios and then marketing the figures as if the trucks had been entirely stock. Ford told AN it wasn’t preparing to modify its ratings. We believe it ought to make the switch—what do you say?
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