Everyone has by now probably seen one of the many Chevrolet videos or commercials talking about the repair costs and durability of the Silverado compared to the Ford F-150. Well Ford has released a newsletter that they think otherwise.

Of course any manufacture is going to stick behind their product and defend it at all costs. Sometimes the facts are misleading, and are truly wrong. Numbers and figures can be manipulated in multiple ways to get the outcome that is desired.

Ford has done just that, skewed and played with the numbers to try and show that the repair costs on the aluminum body F-150 do cost less. Ford has come out and stated that the average repair cost for the 2014 Ford F-150 was $2,345.97, while the average repair cost of the new F-150 to date was $1,476.93.

By those numbers alone, people may think see, it is less, but in actuality it does not compare anything but the previous model F-150s. On top of that early 2015 F-150 repair costs are based on just 337 repairs so far this year from 121 Assured Performance member shops, while the full 2014 average is taken from a much larger, 1,238 number of repairs from over 300 shops.

The number also do not compare the repair costs to the Silverado but to another F-150. To truly compare Ford should of released the numbers and compared it to their own independent study with the Chevrolet Silverado. To get the real results you have to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges.

Numbers are not always as they seem and a week in a statistics class can show, how much they can really be manipulated. Only time will tell to see how these numbers really add up once more pickups get damaged.