Sorry to hear this. I drove my 1993 Ford Explorer 250,000 miles with nary a blip. I traded it in on an Escape in 2003 (not really necessary) and I’ve had no problems with it whatsoever. I do think that there’s plenty of blame to go around. Detroit was extremely short sided. They should’ve been looking ahead about twenty years. They’ve just lived too long in the moment, a sure disaster for any company.
” Detroit was extremely short sided. “
I see the quality issue as a choice. Ford could make cars every bit as good as the Japanese brands, but they choose not to. It probably costs a incremental amount more to do it, but in this era, quality should just be a given.
It makes me mad because these are American owned companies. Our country can do better. We have the best engineers and other talents to do it right.
It just galls me that we let other countries use our intellectually capital to beat us at a core industry.
We make the best aircraft in the world because we choose to do so, why not cars?