Usser friendly if you think his Toyota is funny you should see the look on all the Northstar owners face that have to add 1-2 quarts per 1000 miles! You should really see their face when at 36,000 miles they have oil leaks. Now what is really funy is all the repeated times these same Northstar engine owners have to take their cars in to get the top cylinder cleaned! Here goes a funny one for you how about all of those GM intake manifold failures. I know you probably like all the front axle interloc problems or the tranfer case encoder motor failures. I know how about the average life expectency of a 4L60E in a Silverrado 70,000-80,000 miles. I know I bet you like replaceing rotors and pads 2-3 times dureing the first 36,000 miles on GM cars and trucks!! Ford you say well my mother in law has a Windstar that has 39 pages of TSB's that should have been recalls. Hows about every single module on the vechile going bad shortly out of warnaty. Sure the engine and trans are still fine just make sure you carry plenty of electrical tape to cover all the cluster check lights! Lets not forgett that the Winstars name is such junk that Ford is droping the name and running away from it in favor of something else something like freestar or firestar. It costs alot of money to develop another name you only doe it if the reputation of another product is deemed un-repairable. Ford can not even afford to redesign the old Ranger that sheet metal is so old it might come back into style as a classic. You have the timeing chain issue with the 4.6. You also have all the under powered mustangs that had to be recalled. Lets not forgett about about the Explorer incident.Ford has always had massive electrical issues. THe Tauras still has visable screws hold interior trim inplaces. Oh and the Ford escapes they had some that had the wrong size drums on the rear and they reat drums and tires could fall off! Well lets see Chrylser has had the exact same problems on their small blocks since they brought them out Intake gasket leaks, belly pan gasket leaks, over heating, oil pump and gear drive issues. Then you have all of those trany issues on the minivans and the trucks! Then it was the clock springs on the airbags. Luckily DiamlerChrysler is finaly makeing the engines they should have been makeing 10 years ago namely the 4.7, 3.7, and the 5.7 Hemi!
As a matter of fact Chrysler, GM and Ford have a tradition of building subpar products! Push it out the door and let the Dealer and owner finish production for use! For pete sake the old small blocks were such junk when they first came out that they could not make it past warranty with out drinking oil between 1000-2000 OCI. They had to pour Bon-Ami down the carb! SOmeone would have to be ignorant of the history of the automotive industry to mention GM,Ford or Chrysler in the same breath as Toyota if one haveing a discussion about longterm durability or quality.
