[wally_bert]

Back in the mid 90s, a friend of a friend’s dad worked for a Ford dealership. This guy was as dyed in the wool Ford as they come but for some reason he hated the ranger he got as a company vehicle.

He was told he was stuck with it until it died. For a few years, he drove it hard, 3 oil changes in maybe 100k miles, neglected a lot of maintenance. It refused to die. Anyway the powers that be got him something else he liked better and that poor ranger went into their motorpool.

It was somehow still running a couple of years later. Someone broke into the lot, stole it and wrapped it around a telephone pole.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I bought our son his first pickup, a used V-6/5 speed Ford Ranger. He drove it all over Minnesota, down to Iowa State in Ames, then to Seattle for his first job out of college. He traded it for a 4 cyl Toyota. Last he heard, the Ford was still going at close to 200,000 miles.