On a side note: Buy a new Ford truck and you'll soon regret it. In fact, buy a Ford anything and you'll be sorry.
The American car industry has been destroyed by greedy labor unions.
I have driven my last two Ford vehicles (an SUV and a truck) a total of nearly 710,000 miles — all original powertrains, too.
I watch a guy named Scotty Kilmer on youtube. He’s been a mechanic for half a century. He is a toyota fanatic as far as reliability goes.
Yet he’s even saying that the modern Toyotas are not very good. I’m getting the distinct impression that the industry is intentionally building cars that are designed to get you about 100k miles and then do what the bluesmobile did.
In “my” experience, I bought a ‘01 F150 in ‘04 and paid $16.8k for it. It had 38k miles on it when I bought it.
It now has 225k miles on it and runs like it’s new. Yea, I’ve replaced parts here and there but they wore out. It’s to be expected. The engine, 5.4L V8, purrs.
I’m so confident in it I just put 80k mile tires on it and I’ll drive it until the wheels fall off.
My 2004 F-250 with 254,000 miles is holding up really well, fwiw.
You have obviously never driven a Ford Shelby GT500 or a Ford F-150 Raptor.
Yeah, blame the bolt turners.....