Doesn't Anybody Drive A Ford

[Outpost75]

The last Ford I owned was a 1981 Escort, which self-destructed in a cascading failure driving up Christiansburg Mountain in Virginia on I81. The waterpump seized, shredded the timing belt, and then the pistons drove the valves through the head. I towed it to the junk yard and have never been in a Ford dealership since.

Since then I have driven Toyotas an average of 200,000 miles between trade-ins.

Attachment 79320Banzai!

[popper]

Escort - English ford made in US. Capri - German ford made in US. Contour, a Capri with Escort motor & CVT tranny. What happened to the CVT transmission anyway. Then you have the mitsu/Isuzu/Colt?GM Omni/rabbit with Peugeot motor & I forget the trans. Don't think there's been a US car since the '70s.

[DxieLandMan]

Have 2 Fords. 1992 Explorer with over 260k miles on it and still going strong. Also, a 2010 Fusion with 85K on it. Fords are good. (Just to make it even, I also own 2 Chevrolets).

[starnbar]

The issue with unions in japan is there is almost a government decree against having one anyway. The average auto worker in japan gets paid a living wage but they are mostly living in Nissan or Honda apartment complexes there are very few workers who own their own home. You can sit in your own home and type on your computer and rant against the unions but that is something that the average line worker in japan will never realize in their entire lifetime.

[Walter Laich]

From all I read in the thread I have come to understand the following:
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I can use 3-in-One oil in Ed's Red

[alamogunr]

Well! I just signed the title to the F150 over to the buyer. I hope he gets as good service from it as I have. Admittedly, I never put any strain on it.

As I posted earlier, I now have a Toyota Tundra. I expect to drive it at least 15 years like I did the F150 unless mortality interferes. Then again the government may take away my driver's license due to old age and dementia.

[snoopy]

The only time you'll see me in a Ford is if I'm in the backseat handcuffed, oh wait maybe that's a Dodge. Chevy guy out of pure old fashioned sentimental reasons. Personally, don't see much diff in any of em', if they do what you need'em to do. Lemons in every brand New, Used, caveat emtor.

[unclogum bill]

Some where here I see the line saying Buy American, I am under the misconception that GM products ran to Canada and Ford products ran to Mexico. I do know I was shocked to see the assembly tag on the Ford Transport van read "Turkey". Really do we still make anything here or our we assembling parts (sometimes) , and not much more?.

[Pakprotector]

The Chrysler 727 takes Type F, or what ever F+ thing they're calling it now. They even tolerate life behind a 6BT-5.9 Cummins. I have a manual Cummins shipping crate, and a 727 shipping crate, both 2wd and are considered young in the neighborhood of 200k. I drive the manual one to work every day...and have since I got it nearly half a decade ago. Lemme see, I can do a water pump change in less time than it takes a new truck guy to get over the fright of opening the hood. No pulling body to service a turbo...stone knives and bearskins...and I can burn 50-50% diesel and ATF...or corn oil or...

This antimony 'thing' sounds fishy...oh yes indeed. Plausible I guess...but fishy IMO.

And to winelover, that UAW does indeed have input as to what and how stuff gets built. I have a UAW pancreas...aka Type 1, insulin-shootin' Diabetes. Oh yeah, I am Ford salaried, product development...
cheers,
Douglas

[bandit7.5]

The first ford I ever drove was a 1956 ford ranger station wagon. The last was 1994 ranger pickup. The transmissions fell out of all of them an the few in between.

[Old Dawg]

People have no problem filling with fuel tanks with fuel from foreign owned companies.

When America first started industrializing after the Civil War most of the financing was from foreigners especially the British.

What killed the American auto industry was a cocky arrogance. 1) It must be better because it's American. 2) We lead the world because we are better, when in fact we had cornered many markets because the rest of the world and our competition had been devastated by two World Wars. It was a seller's market and we were the only sellers left.

We used to make the best cars?? At one time the best printers did it with a hammer and chisel but they too lost out to new technology by resting on their laurels. It is not good enough to have once been the best. What are we now? In some industries we are still the best. Ironically those are the industries that are the most globally competitive. The other industries are an example of how protectionism breeds mediocrity.

[unclogum bill]

People have no problem filling with fuel tanks with fuel from foreign owned companies.

When America first started industrializing after the Civil War most of the financing was from foreigners especially the British.

What killed the American auto industry was a cocky arrogance. 1) It must be better because it's American. 2) We lead the world because we are better, when in fact we had cornered many markets because the rest of the world and our competition had been devastated by two World Wars. It was a seller's market and we were the only sellers left.

We used to make the best cars?? At one time the best printers did it with a hammer and chisel but they too lost out to new technology by resting on their laurels. It is not good enough to have once been the best. What are we now? In some industries we are still the best. Ironically those are the industries that are the most globally competitive. The other industries are an example of how protectionism breeds mediocrity.

...Thats one theory , mine is unions were a great thing , became corrupt, ability to fire for slow motion , poor performance overran their gains. Somebody saw cheap overseas labor without government restraint , and their factories took off. We trained there young and bright and they took it all home. Next time at a food store watch how slow some checkers move to get through the day. Overseas they would produce of be gone.

[Garyshome]

I am going to hijack this thread back! My wife drives a Hocus Focus! It doesn't use any oil, just rebuilt, got a pretty good deal on it too.

[unclogum bill]

[QUOTE=Garyshome;2456562]I am going to hijack this thread back! My wife drives a Hocus Focus! It doesn't use any oil, just rebuilt, got a pretty good deal on it too.[/QUOTE
Seeing that word rebuilt I wonder if anyone shares this experience. A good rebuild involves heating heads and driving out old valve guides. . Cheap and easy is to run something like a tap in them and drill them to size. Good for 40 thousand miles and then your blowing smoke. I was stupid and it cost me twice for I caught on.