(02-24-2021, 08:23 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(02-24-2021, 08:06 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: That's the way I feel about Fords. Hate'm. I've had two and they were nothing but trouble. My Ford Ranger in particular was a hunk of crap! Every time it rained I got stranded. It would constantly get condensation in the distributor and I had to carry a can of wire dryer with me everywhere I went just to get the damn thing to start. I finally flipped it on my way home from the last day of high school and totaled it. I wasn't really sad to see it go either.

Yeah I've heard nothing but bad things about Rangers and nothing but good things about F-series.

The Ranger had, and has, a lot more Mazda parts in it.  You're not the only one who is sour on Rangers.  Ford didn't bother trying to sell them in the US or Canada from 2012 to 2018.

Pretty sure the F-series has been the best American made truck the whole time I've been alive.  Heard good things about Toyota trucks though, if you're open to buying non American.

I did not know that. 

My mechanic drives a '94 Toyota truck with almost 300,000 miles. The engines last forever, but the beds rust to almost nothing. Eventually, you almost have to replace the beds on them. 

The money from Toyotas may go back to Japan, but it seems like almost all of them are manufactured in the U.S. There are a couple Toyota plants not too far from me. One in Indiana and one in Kentucky, so at least they are supplying U.S. jobs.

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