favorite cars/most hated cars

[fordranger]

i hate german and japanese car. they are way way over enginerd and have the dumbest designs ever. i love my amercians. everybody give the following cars flack but i love them ford focus,ford ranger and windstar and any w body gm i love the easyness of the w bodis execpt the skylarks of the ninetes those can burn i hate them the focus because their bomb proof as long as you stay away from the split port. the windstar just a great van solid as long as you dump the atf in those tranes their great vans. the ranger good litle work truck not to be used like a super duty. and i generally like the ford tauruses besdes the cam synchronizer on fords their honestly good engines.

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[Jake Riesser]

I just dislike all newer cars … my ’11 cruze isn’t AS bad as some of the newer cars, but some are just way too hard/expensive to work on. I can’t remember what year/model (this guy is a lawyer, goes through new cars like I … go through beaters, about 1 a year) but he called me (long time friend) and told me he took the car into jiffylube, and they said they can’t do an oil change on it, asked me to try. I said “sure, nothing I can’t change the oil on” … then he drove it in. I think it was a BMW of some sort, either way, no dipstick. I searched and searched for the darn thing, finally, I just shut the hood, told him he’ll probably have to go to the dealer on this one. PITA either way, idk what you’re supposed to do if you develop a slow oil leak from one of the gaskets, maybe just bring it into the dealer and either buy a new car (over leaking $2 of oil every 3000mi. it sounds a little silly to me) or pay for an oil change so you know precisely how much oil is in there. Although, it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if Ford and Chevy are already doing the same thing on their higher-end cars. It’s called “designed obsolescence”, where you build/design a car so it will last until x point, at which time everything will simultaneously fail, and at the same time, you design it so the designed failure parts will be too expensive to fix/repair, so instead of repairing it, you scrap the car and go buy another (new or used) car to drive. The way of the future … usually a 100,000mi. warranty car will be designed to fail in 150-200k so that they won’t fail during warranty (forcing the manuf. to pay for expensive repairs) but at the same time, they will fail once you run out of warranty, and then the dealer will tell you it’s too expensive to be worth fixing, but our car salesman is here to help you buy another vehicle. Not saying it’s a conspiracy, it’s just good business practice really … they could, for a little more money, build cars that would last much longer, but most people who buy new cars plan to replace them within 4-6 years, 10 years for about 90% or more, so why build a car that will last 20 if the buyer doesn’t want/need that?

[Nick Smytkowski]

I have 1996 Gmc 1/2 ton. love it so easy to work on. But hands down a Dodge 3/4 ton with a 12 valve Cummins best vehicle ever made

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