Chevy and Ford owners have been trading friendly insults since long before group chats made it easy, and the rivalry behind this video goes back further than most fans realize. It traces to 1964, when the Mustang caught Chevrolet flat-footed and forced the Camaro into existence. Heres where the century-old feud actually started.
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Every gearhead has that one friend who cant resist forwarding a diss track the second a new one drops, and if youve ever caught grief for parking a Bowtie in the wrong driveway, you already know exactly how this one starts. Chevy and Ford owners have been trading good-natured insults since long before group chats made it easy to fire off a jab in three seconds flat. The sniping goes back further than most fans realize, rooted in a genuine on-track rivalry that reshaped what both companies built under the hood. So what actually kicked off nearly a century of this brand loyalty, and why does a simple two-word jab still land the same way it did decades ago?
A Rivalry Older Than Either Companys Muscle Cars
Ford and Chevrolets feud predates the muscle car era by more than half a century. Henry Ford founded his company in 1903, and Chevrolet followed in 1911 under Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant, and the two brands have been fighting for sales, innovation, and bragging rights ever since. That long runway matters, because by the time the 1960s rolled around, the competition wasnt a marketing gimmick, it was a decades-deep habit baked into how each company approached engineering.
The 1960s Escalation That Started It All
The rivalrys most explosive chapter opened in 1964, when Fords new Mustang became an instant sales phenomenon that caught Chevrolet flat-footed. After a failed answer with the turbocharged Corvair, Chevrolet regrouped and fired back with the Camaro for the 1967 model year, leaning on its small-block V8 to give buyers a genuine performance alternative. That one-two punch of Mustang versus Camaro set the tone for the muscle car wars that followed, pitting engine displacement, quarter-mile times, and dealership loyalty against each other for the rest of the decade.
Why the Trash Talk Still Works Today
Brand tribalism like this rarely fades once it takes hold, and Ford versus Chevy is proof. It shows up in NASCAR rivalries, dealership signage, and yes, in the kind of forwarded video that started this whole post. Every jab keeps a century-old argument alive, and neither side seems interested in a truce anytime soon.
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Liked Chevy and Ford but make them in America not Mexico and China, only car made America a Toyota
Shit happens to Chevy guys once in a while, all the time for Ford’s especially mustangs
All the time for chevy in the bottom of reliability as usual 🤣 no wonder f150’s the best selling best trucks for decades in a row..and camaros are always behind mustangs taillights since 1964? Ok 1967 or rather 2003? 😂 no! 2010!!
BS
Fix or repair daily = ford
Ford backwards = driver returned on foot
Ford = fucked over rebuilt Dodge
Ford = found on road dead
Flip over read directions
My dad jad an 81 Chevy 2500 we put well over 500000 miles on it .. Retired it because it needed alot of suspension work motor only had a lifter tap took it out put it in my 81 drove it for awhile and sold it
My thoughts
Ford may have been in it’s day but like a new fad here today gone today
William Dougherty YOU ARE WRONG…
Lol fumny hurt chevy dudes..
Paul Hunt your wrong, found your doors 3 miles back
Lol very appropriate sing and video lol
Unfortunately sane could be said for all American makes! Cheap cheap.
Andrew Capozzi Karissa Nielsen Jean Midy
Id rather push a chevy than drive a ford!
Derek Stacey
Mike Evanoff
Dave Newman
Are you trying to start a war?
Must be a jealous Ford guy
On October 1, 1908, the first production Model T Ford is completed at the company’s Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit. Between 1908 and 1927, Ford would build some 15 million Model T cars. It was the longest production run of any automobile model in history until the Volkswagen Beetle surpassed it in 1972.
Ford Motor Company unveils the Model T – Oct 01, 1908 – HISTORY.com
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ford-motor-company-unveils-the-model-t
FORD WAS FIRST……
Image result for ford number 1 selling truck
Ford CEO on Trump tweeting at companies.
Ford has sold enough F-series trucks to circle the earth more than three times. The F-series, best known for the popular F-150, has been America’s best-selling truck for the 40 consecutive years since its launch, Ford announced Wednesday.Jan 4, 2017
Ford: F-series is best-selling truck for 40 years – Jan. 4, 2017
money.cnn.com/2017/01/04/autos/ford-f-150-truck-40-years/index.html
that song was made for my chevy 2500 that i had POS $$$$ 77,000 mile gave up on it, went to scrapyard,,
FORD IS STILL THE NUMBER 1 TRUCK OVER ALL OTHER MAKES …
Nothing against Chevys, but this song is fing funny
ford would have got more likes lol
Cjrvu guys don’t need a song to know Ford sucks
Ford sux
i dont care what you say,im a chevy lover and will not change.
98% of all Fords manufactured in 2016 are still on the road… The other 2% made it it home, just barely.
You mean 98% of all f100/ f150’s ever made right?
Ford as the most weakest body they ever made and recalls since I work for them and that is a upside down gmc
With a mopar picture you’re lying
Yea Ford is still number 1 in recalls
Bubba Belair
Haha right on
A lot of chevy crying fans here
Ford was built on murder, payoffs and the backs of its employees.
Sounds like my Mercedes to me!