First the recalls done by General Motors, the company that owns Chevrolet has become such an issue that they have actually had to ask their employees not to use certain words and phrases in their conversations including “Hindenburg”, …show more content…
Cars and driver, a popular magazine has placed Ford’s F-150 as the number one full size pickup. The Chevrolet Silverado 1500, pretty much the F-150s opposite has a twelve valve six-cylinder with two hundred eighty five horsepower, a sixteen valve eight cylinder with three hundred fifty five horsepower, and a fifteen valve eight cylinder with four hundred forty horsepower (“2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500”). Fords better F-150 has a 3.7 liter six cylinder with an impressive three hundred and five horsepower, a five liter eight cylinder with three hundred and sixty horsepower, and a six-two with four hundred and eleven (“F-150 Specifications”). Fords v6 has a smaller engine and still fifteen horsepower over the 1500. Moving from trucks now to the Ford Mustang and Chevy Camaro. The 2014 GT500 packs a 5.8 liter supercharged eight cylinder with sis hundred and sixty horsepower. The cars zero to sixty is an incredible 3.5 seconds (“Ford Mustang Shelby”). The Camaro ZL1 takes close to a second more to reach sixty while only having five hundred and eighty horsepower and still being more expensive expensive (“Chevrolet Camaro”). The reliability, costs, and gas mileage are another thing that car buyers typically look at, Ford is consistently better on this area