We have never owned any GM product. My dad always had Studes (now he has a diesel Bimmer slug that is almost 30 years old and just keeps on). The Torino was our first car after my husband and I got married, then we had a '72 TR-6 (Prince of Darkness! Two, count 'em, TWO electrical fires), a Bimmer 2002tii (great car! the differential fell out on the street though) an old Toyota Landcruiser ute (off-roading in that thing triggered the birth of my first child - I still see it rolling around town, it will never die), a Volvo 245 DL wagon (reliable but dull - typical first baby car), a Volvo 4 door sedan (a rusted out dog, but it ran, and we only paid 2,000 clams for it in 1990!), then a Windstar, then the Explorer, then the Expedition (my 6'6" 240 # husband was pretty cramped in the Explorer).
We did have one Ford dog -- that execrable Windstar minivan with the horrible 3 liter engine. That stinking thing blew its head TWICE, once at 40k and again at 65k - the second time it literally separated from the block in huge clouds of steam that engulfed the cabin - I was on the shoulder and out of it with the Halon extinguisher in my hot sweaty hand in about 2 seconds - I was convinced it had exploded and was about to burn to the ground. I will say that the dealer was very nice about it and (1) fetched me within 30 minutes from the side of the road (2) gave me a free rental car (3) waived our warranty repair deductible (4) gave us a REALLY good trade-in allowance, much more than the car was worth. The chief mechanic said everybody knew that Ford had screwed the pooch on that one. Ford eventually came clean and offered reimbursements and various free stuff to those of us unfortunate enough to have bought a Windstar, but we weren't out of pocket so we didn't file a claim. But the dealer was such a gentleman about the whole thing that we've kept coming back (and recommended them to our friends as good honest guys).
I briefly had a Triumph Spitfire - bought new. What a disaster. Blew a head gasket in the first thousand miles, burned out the clutch shortly thereafter PLUS electrical problems (including one fire, of course.) Couldn't keep the hood latches closed, plus a whole assortment of other constantly irritating little glitches that just plain wouldn't stay fixed. Got rid of that pronto! What a horror (but I must admit that little car was fun for those - brief - periods when it did run OK.)
The only decent "new era" Ford I ever owned that I enjoyed was a 1963 1/2 Ford Falcon 2 door sedan, standard shift with the just released small-block 260 V8 engine. That car was a real gas! I liked it so much I swapped the engine out for a new high-performance 289 V8 (later to become a rip-tear engine available in the Ford Mustang and Shelby's Cobra.) Drove that car a couple of years but finally sold it to a Ford dealer who just "had" to have it.
I guess I'll stick with GM iron, since I generally am happy with what I buy, plus at age 63 I really don't drive all that much any more. I'm into the "Grandpa" thing now, which is more important to me than any wheels. Now my job (if I choose to accept it, and I do) is to spoil the little cuties as much as I want! Two girls, so far. I'm putty in their hands, as my daughter keeps pointing out. What fun!!