paulsharvey
Elite Member
On vehicles; I have owned Chevy, dodge, Ram, and Toyota. I have many many miles in company Fords, Dodges, Rams, and GMCs.
My personal experience; GM trucks, Ford Trucks (and Suvs), and Dodge/Ram Trucks (and SUVs) are pretty dang good, as are Toyota SUVs. Chevy cars, crap, not fatal, but Constant annoying things like window motors, blend door actuators, oil leaks. Ford SUVs good, but the tech part can be an Achilles heel, and almost disable the vehicle over a radio/infotainment screen.
All of the trucks and mid-full sized SUVs of all brands have been good to around 200,000 miles, with minor stuff, like wheel bearings, alternators, needing replaced.
The US based cars, the Chevy Impala was a turd.
Some of the annoying things; Ram Trucks won't go into drive or reverse with the door open... Don't idle your 5.7L hemi, that one is fatal, but a typical consumer isn't running them 6/8/12 hours per day, which we do at work
Ford has their no cap fuel tank, which will throw codes randomly
GM, seems the U-joints, wheel bearings, and water pumps are often needing replaced at 80,000.
Edit; to throw a bit of shade at Toyota; they don't "lead" at Anything, they are the vanilla of vehicles. They are well engineered, generally, but they tend to lag in efficiency, power, technology, ect. Pretty sure they milked 4 speed autos well past when others had 6/8/10 speeds.
On comfort, I think ram/Ford beat GM and Toyota, but that's really subjective, and varies between vehicles/trims
My personal experience; GM trucks, Ford Trucks (and Suvs), and Dodge/Ram Trucks (and SUVs) are pretty dang good, as are Toyota SUVs. Chevy cars, crap, not fatal, but Constant annoying things like window motors, blend door actuators, oil leaks. Ford SUVs good, but the tech part can be an Achilles heel, and almost disable the vehicle over a radio/infotainment screen.
All of the trucks and mid-full sized SUVs of all brands have been good to around 200,000 miles, with minor stuff, like wheel bearings, alternators, needing replaced.
The US based cars, the Chevy Impala was a turd.
Some of the annoying things; Ram Trucks won't go into drive or reverse with the door open... Don't idle your 5.7L hemi, that one is fatal, but a typical consumer isn't running them 6/8/12 hours per day, which we do at work
Ford has their no cap fuel tank, which will throw codes randomly
GM, seems the U-joints, wheel bearings, and water pumps are often needing replaced at 80,000.
Edit; to throw a bit of shade at Toyota; they don't "lead" at Anything, they are the vanilla of vehicles. They are well engineered, generally, but they tend to lag in efficiency, power, technology, ect. Pretty sure they milked 4 speed autos well past when others had 6/8/10 speeds.
On comfort, I think ram/Ford beat GM and Toyota, but that's really subjective, and varies between vehicles/trims
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