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Tundra Ad misconceptions
A few years ago Chevy had an ad showing the "Powerfull new Silverado" apearing to pull a completly stuck in the mud full size backhoe out of the mud hole, "WOW" what a truck. I found an 800 number that surprisingly got me to the head shed of the adveretising dept. I asked the fellow seemingly in charge if he was at all familliar with a backhoe, well no, he had saw them working along the road, so I kind of rambled on about how anyone who had spent more the an hour running a backhoe could have got himself out of the mudhole without anyones help in the first place, "OH I did'nt know that" says the top dog exec. Then I kind of entered the fact that a hoe of that size probably weighed 18 to 20 thousand pounds, belly down in the mud that nobody would be dumb enough to belive that the mighty Silverado would pull it out, finally after a big half hour of discussion the man did get straight up with me and admitted that their strategy was to use any means of deception to build the ego of the UNINFORMED buyer into believing the Silverado was so powerfull that it really would pull the backhoe out of the mudhole. I've wondered since if that man still has a job there if he would openly admit to me a Mr. Frank Nobody from Nowhere ville, USA what their basic sales strategy really was with that ad. Anyhow back to the Toyota thing, again another big company trying to fool the uninformed portion of the pickup buying public into believeing this truck can really do this. Worst part is some fool probably will buy a Toyota and actualy try some of their stunts and end up in the cemetary. My sermon for the day. Frank.
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I don't know if the Govt. truth in advertising thing came into play with this or not, but the mileage claims in the sales literature are a lot closer to real world than they used to be. My example is my 07 Silverado half ton, smallest V8, automatic, 4X4, standard cab. Sometimes when I'm in a hurry I forget, but 90% of the time I check the mileage on every fillup. I traded in an 04 Silverado basicly identical except it was a five speed manual. After almost 10K miles the 07 is a defintie 2 MPG gain over the 04. One tank did top 21 by a whisker on a 300 mile trip, but normal short trip is 18.5/19 average over the long term. Pulling even a medium duty trailer takes it down to 15/16. So my point being they didn't fib to me on this one, I hope the next pickup gains another 2 or more MPG. Overall the best pickup I've ever owned. Frank.
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KW, No I don't know the weight of either pickup. Mine is the last of the old design 07 Silverado, so their new series 07's likely have a lighter weight by the methods you describe. A friend of mine has the new design 07 with the engine that shuts off part of the cylinders under light load. He has never bragged or complained about his mileage, so I really don't have any feedback. One of his main concerns when buying a new pickup is to have the heaviest duty four door with every possible bell and whistle that Chevy can come up with, so he is hauling around a lot of power consuming do dads that I don't have, or even want, mine still has crank windows, but it gets me there just fine anyhow. Frank.
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Drankin; I'm sure it was a Toyota pickup that passed me on the fourlane, on the side of the box toward the rear it said "TURD", is that for real or did some disgruntled Toyota owner put that there? I don't keep up much on import cars and pickups.
Moderator edited (on behalf of Frank) by Murf.
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Sorry, I'm really messing up today. I started the prior post saying parked meaning to say he passed me, and didn't delete the first part, then tried to correct. Time for a nap.
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