I can buy a Ford Ranger Raptor for $65k or a Toyota Tacoma Trail Hunter for $65k. I know that the Toyota out performs the Ranger in nearly every meaningful way and has a history of lasting twice as long without major maintenance.
Fords and Chevy have always been marketed as the working class car/truck, they’re supposed to be cheap, capable and tough. With the idea of the owner performing self maintenance. But now they are some of the most expensive and ridiculously out of proportion vehicles on the road. On paper they’re impressive but worthless in less than 5 years, so buy one used and hope you can get 5 more years before it falls apart.
One of their selling points was they were mass produced American made and assembled. But now most of the vehicles are built and mostly assembled in other countries, with only the final stages in the US so they can avoid import taxes.
Ford/Chevy/Chrysler have destroyed themselves and just because they have an office the US doesn’t make them US automakers when they don’t make automobiles in the US anymore. They never should’ve gotten US government bailouts. If anything the bailout should have come from countries where their factories are actually located. Fuck em.
You’re really exaggerating the reliability of the cars lol. I own a 10 year old Cadillac and it’s running perfectly fine with mostly basic maintenance.
Its funny how most foreign cars are built exactly the same way now. With a lot of the “Foreign” cars actually being more American made than the “Domestic” brands lol
I own a 10 year old Cadillac and it’s running perfectly fine with mostly basic maintenance.
That’s like the bare minimum lmao. I would hope a 2015/2016 anything functions as it should in 2026. We’ve got a 2015 Toyota Highlander w/120k miles that still looks and drives like new. I change the oil somewhere between every 5000-8000 miles. It’s had one battery replacement. I’m considering a trans fluid change mostly just because I feel like it.
Hell, my 2008 Toyota Sienna - with 274k rough miles - is one of the few vehicles I regularly take on multiple custody related 500-mile roadtrips a year, without hesitation.
And yet you don’t see me bragging about them.
Its funny how most foreign cars are built exactly the same way now. With a lot of the “Foreign” cars actually being more American made than the “Domestic” brands lol
It only took GM until the 2000s to figure that out, and after all they did with Toyota at NUMMI, they still said “Nah, that’s too hard”.
I’m not bragging lol. The person I was replying to was talking like they disintegrate as soon as you drive them off the lot which just isn’t true is all I’m saying
Well yeah.
I can buy a Ford Ranger Raptor for $65k or a Toyota Tacoma Trail Hunter for $65k. I know that the Toyota out performs the Ranger in nearly every meaningful way and has a history of lasting twice as long without major maintenance.
Fords and Chevy have always been marketed as the working class car/truck, they’re supposed to be cheap, capable and tough. With the idea of the owner performing self maintenance. But now they are some of the most expensive and ridiculously out of proportion vehicles on the road. On paper they’re impressive but worthless in less than 5 years, so buy one used and hope you can get 5 more years before it falls apart.
One of their selling points was they were mass produced American made and assembled. But now most of the vehicles are built and mostly assembled in other countries, with only the final stages in the US so they can avoid import taxes.
Ford/Chevy/Chrysler have destroyed themselves and just because they have an office the US doesn’t make them US automakers when they don’t make automobiles in the US anymore. They never should’ve gotten US government bailouts. If anything the bailout should have come from countries where their factories are actually located. Fuck em.
You’re really exaggerating the reliability of the cars lol. I own a 10 year old Cadillac and it’s running perfectly fine with mostly basic maintenance.
Its funny how most foreign cars are built exactly the same way now. With a lot of the “Foreign” cars actually being more American made than the “Domestic” brands lol
That’s like the bare minimum lmao. I would hope a 2015/2016 anything functions as it should in 2026. We’ve got a 2015 Toyota Highlander w/120k miles that still looks and drives like new. I change the oil somewhere between every 5000-8000 miles. It’s had one battery replacement. I’m considering a trans fluid change mostly just because I feel like it.
Hell, my 2008 Toyota Sienna - with 274k rough miles - is one of the few vehicles I regularly take on multiple custody related 500-mile roadtrips a year, without hesitation.
And yet you don’t see me bragging about them.
It only took GM until the 2000s to figure that out, and after all they did with Toyota at NUMMI, they still said “Nah, that’s too hard”.
I’m not bragging lol. The person I was replying to was talking like they disintegrate as soon as you drive them off the lot which just isn’t true is all I’m saying