[AFret.]

You forgot one item:

Make a quality pickup with NO COMPUTER CHIPS IN THEM, AT ALL !

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I still drive my 1995 F-150XLT that I bought new for $16,000. Came with a cassette deck, cloth, A/C and auto on the column. I drive this truck everyday and have babied it each of its 159,000 miles. It is cherry...

Am approached frequently with offers to buy it. I’ll have this truck until I die, and will leave it in my will.

[Spktyr]

Your F-150 has *many* computer chips in it. The dashboard is actually computerized even though it has analog needles on it (heavily computerized, go look up something called the Ford PSOM). The engine can’t run without its computer since you have EFI. Your transmission will either be a 4R70W/AOD-E or an E4OD, which can’t even go into gear without a computer running the solenoid pack. The 1995 radio/cassette deck was computerized. Even the lighting system is computerized if you have the Battery Sentinel or keyless entry features.

[Yosemitest]

You'll have it until it starts giving computer chip problems,
and when they quit stocking computer parts for it, and you can't get those handle little computer relays for it ...

THEN WHAT WILL YOU DO ? ? ?

It's not like we have REAL MECHANICS any more.
We've only got PARTS CHANGERS !