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Originally Posted by Jim Bremner

Turn it on it's side or top the steel body will offer more protection .when it slides on blacktop

Actually that's not true, a properly designed aluminum structure can be just as strong as steel. Most of modern crashworthiness is based upon the design of crumple zones more than material choice. It's why a modern city car is safer than a 5,000 lb Cadillac boat from the 1980s.

Originally Posted by enzo1

GM Reportedly Moving to Carbon Fiber Beds in the Great Pickup Truck Arms Race - The Drive

True carbon fiber is actually terrible for impact resistance. It tends to be very inelastic and stiff, but prone to fracture. Impacts that don't fracture the laminate can create voids that represent future failure points. Carbon fiber that fractures looks like a broken piece of plywood, with lots of jagged points in the fracture zone. Hopefully they are looking at something with kevlar or similar materials that are more more impact resistant.

Most importantly, does that mean they'll drop the moronic commercials with people throwing boulders into the back of F150s and being amazed that they dent?