Ford... what's going to happen?

[trapin]

Originally Posted by Colvindesign

When is the last time you saw a Chevy with over 200k miles? In my family I have seen 4 Toyota's with that, and they have owned more chevy's than toyota's by a large margin.

Umm...Sunday. My Cousin's '88 Cheyenne. I was there for my God childs birthday party and he was showing me his odometer that read 60,000 miles on it. He bought it in '95 with 100,000 and had already flipped the odometer once himself (260,000 miles). Still going strong. My neighbor Mark has a '91 Astro Van 210,000 miles and not a single hic-cup the past 5 years. My old '77 Chevy van that I drove in High School turned 200,000 in the Summer of '89. I never had a problem with that van either. The following year I sold it to my friend Craig Irwin and he drove it for another 2 years before the main bearings finally quit on him. I've seen a lot of GM cars go over 200,000 miles. The flip side to that coin is I know a number of people that have owned Japanese cars that have had nothing but problems with them. Case in point; my Mother-In-Law's (used) '97 Toyota Celica that she bought last year that I begged her not to. 80,000 miles on it and it's nothing but a steaming pile of cow dung. Everytime she drives down from up north it's to have her brother look at it to see what's wrong. A co-worker here has a Honda Accord that she wants to turn into an artificial reef at the bottem of the Detroit River. Japanese cars have their problems too, it's just that you never hear about them because ripping on the Japanese isn't the cool thing to do. Trashing American cars is much more fun.