In my last post, I talked about the tug-of-war challenge that Tom Stephens, General Motors’ vice chairman in charge of global product operations, issued to Ford. The idea was to have the biggest and baddest from GMC and Ford fight it out and see who’s tops.

Well, Pickuptrucks.com reports that Ford responded in a way that can be considered pusillanimous. Here is the relevant quote, although please go to the link to see the whole story (and if you love trucks, RSSing Pickuptrucks.com isn’t a bad idea!).

GM on Tuesday jumped in with both feet to formally challenge Ford to a fun tug-of-war contest between both companies’ 2011 heavy-duty pickups. Now, we’ve got a response from Ford via Twitter.

One of our Twitter friends, @KyleRohde, asked @Ford and @FordTrucks, “So are you guys going to accept GM’s challenge with PickupTruck.com??”

The reply was, “We typically don’t respond to challenges. We let the vehicles speak for themselves,” with a link to this page: http://bit.ly/dbFZXj.

Hmm. IMHO, chaining two trucks together and seeing which one wins is “letting the vehicles speak for themselves.” But maybe that’s just me!

In order to let your Sierra or other GMC vehicle “speak for itself,” come on over to Mike’s for a test drive!

–Truck Man