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” Hmmm I guess Chevy must have tested it to make sure their trucks can survive Armageddon? “

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(Government Motors) GM, Ford feud over Super Bowl ad
Reuters ^ | Sun Feb 5, 2012 | Bernie Woodall

Posted on Sunday, February 05, 2012 5:46:57 PM by DogByte6RER

GM, Ford feud over Super Bowl ad

(Reuters) - A simmering feud between General Motors Co and Ford Motor Co heated up on Sunday as Ford objected to GM’s Super Bowl advertisement for its Chevy Silverado pickup truck.

The ad, which will run on NBC’s television broadcast of the Super Bowl on Sunday, depicts an apocalyptic scene in which Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks and their owners escape death and make it to a pre-arranged meeting point.

But, one of their friends, identified as “Dave,” who drives a Ford, doesn’t make it to the meeting site, in the video that plays off the idea that the ancient Mayans predicted the world would end in 2012.

A letter from Ford attorney Lynne M. Matuszak says that according to insurance industry data it is Ford, and not GM, that makes the safer pickup truck and she called on GM not to use the ad. GM has refused to pull the spot.

GM has had the advertisement on its website for a few days, and a posting on YouTube by Sunday afternoon had been viewed 1.6 million times. GM stands by the ad and its claims.

“Ford insists that Chevrolet refrain from running the commercial during (Sunday’s) Super Bowl; refrain from any future use of the commercial; and permanently remove the commercial from its website, its YouTube and Facebook pages and any other Internet sites,” Matuszak wrote.

Jim Farley, Ford’s global sales and marketing chief, told reporters on sidelines of the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in Las Vegas on Sunday that despite the GM claim that pickup truck registrations over the past 30 years support the ad’s claim, Ford will fight the commercial.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...