Ford F-150 vs Ram 1500 | What # 39; s the best truck?
full-size pickups, some might argue, have squared the past few years, the competition is tough, and they're growing in profile, appearance and size and towing capacity.
Yet security is proving to be an important differentiator There are very different structures of the body and material underneath the brand to brand, and new tests of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety IIHS reveals it's a particularly wide range in terms of occupant protection through models, even within the same model line in several key factors that matter to people inside.
One of them is the test of a frontal collision small overlap IIHS, which measures how the appeal of passengers is kept in a particularly deadly type of frontal carsh; the other is the roof strength test, a key result related to survival capacity in the event of overturning.
The IIHS tested several cab configurations where possible, in tests that included the Ram 1500, Toyota Tundra, Chevrolet Silverado 1500, GMC Sierra 1500 Ford F-150.
And among all these, the 2016 Ford F-150 SuperCab was the only model to achieve high good for small overlaps.
Ford made structural changes to 2016 SuperCab models to improve marginal performance well and now he is the only full-size truck to earn the IIHS Top Safety Pick designation.
Two other models, the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Double Cab and Toyota Tundra Double Cab, earned acceptable rating for low recovery, but CrewMax Cab for Tundra versions of these models have earned a marginal rating, with greater intrusion into the cabin could lead to injury of the driver.
In IIHS testing, underperforming trucks were the 2016 Ram 1500 Crew Cab and Ram 1500 Quad Cab Both have won just a marginal overall score and a low structural assessment, reaching intrusion levels so serious that cabin the lower leg, ankle and foot injuries would be likely, and the driver would probably trapped, needing help to free his feet from the wreckage.
The IIHS noted that in addition, all these great models pickup earn top marks for the impact before moderate, side impact and rear head restraint tests.
Yet, Ram 1500 models don t do as well in the IIHS roof strength test, a measure of how the roof will remain intact if Ram downturn has had since 2009, when the roof strength test was launched to improve the performance of the models.
full size already a disadvantage working trucks.
While the size and heft of a full-size pick-up may seem a safe bet to you and you would be correct in assuming they hold an advantage in multiple-vehicle crashes with smaller vehicles microphones are more likely to roll in accidents that's one of the reasons they have more chances of death; but their drivers are generally worse about buckling; 44 percent of deaths of occupants in the pick-up are in rollovers.
The body-on-frame layout of these large pickups certainly presents additional challenges for engineers, frame rails, specially configured for towing and hauling heavy loads, limit crumple zones and paths strength to passenger cell.
There are over size truck tests and notes on how the IIHS test the redesigned 2016 Nissan Titan range this year and next 2017 Honda Ridgeline.
Ford F150 pickup head crashtest notes; Ram 1500 needs improvement, Ford tops, pickup, odds.