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Originally Posted by DGthe3
Their ads were almost exclusively targeted at the aluminum bed. GM is still using steel there. I think there might have been a bit of hand wringing online (so not from GM) about using aluminum bodywork on top of that, where people were worried about the side of the truck getting dinged up way more easily (and being more expensive to repair to boot). Those criticisms are going to be almost as valid a year from now as they are today, only sticking point is that now the Silverado's door skins will be made from aluminum just like in the Ford. But the bed won't & the fenders won't.
And its not as if this is the first time GM has put aluminum on a truck. The only difference now is the door skins and maybe the tailgate (but I think it was aluminum in the last generation too).
If GM had gone ALL aluminum on the Silverado (doing the exact same thing as Ford), then yes it would be fair to point out their hypocrisy. But they didn't, so it isn't.
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This one made no mention of the bed just steel vs aluminum