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I like their trucks, and their high-end vechicles. I consider the Mustang high end. It's their entry line that's lacking. I'm looking for a new car, and woul
by icantdrive55 9y ago
I like their trucks, and their high-end vechicles. I consider the Mustang high end.
It's their entry line that's lacking. I'm looking for a new car, and would love to buy a Ford.
Actually it's for an aging relative, and don't see much. I don't even want to walk up to that Focus, and I can't get her near it. Now she will listen to me on the impracticality of buying a Cooper Mini, and she will listen to me on what vechicles look nice, but are just too exotic for our future repair budget--basically me with with parts a account. But she won't look at a Ford, except the F150, which she can't even get into.
If anyone from Ford is listening. Buck the trend. Build a vechicle, that a customer can put 400,000 on. Build it like a 80' Toyota. Meaning just use common sence. Replaceable Ball joints, maybe at the most two computers. Nothing exotic. Just a people mover, with a splash of style? No dashboards that look like a sensor waiting to fail. Mechanic friendly. I had a Slick Rick car Salesman tell me no one works on their own vechicles anymore, and they all finance. He was naieve, or just trying to hussle? I know he knew nothing about about how a vechicle is put together, and shouldn't. Just a Salesman. Just a dude who checks his oil at every fill up--still can't figure out why. Maybe it can't be done with government regulations? I don't know.
Go ahead and put in six beverage holders, just make the thing last.
Make the thing last? Toyotas, and Hondas spend years honing that reputation, and are raking it in now. Do the same thing? You hit it out of the park on so many newer vechicles, now go back to the company roots. A vechicle your employees can afford, and want to buy?
(If there's any mechanics here, I would love your recommendations on some 2012 to 2016 vechicles that are good buys, and practical.)
- gtaylor 9y agoI'm only a shade tree mechanic, but our 2014 Civic has been very reliable and easy to work on (mostly just brake pads at this point).
- radiorental 9y agoShade-tree mechanic here. If you're looking for something in the Focus/Cooper range. I highly recommend the Honda Fit. I second hand one with 10-30K on it can be had for four figures. And it will go for 200K without major service, 300K if you live outside the rustbelt. I recently switched to electric. I could not be more happy with the Nissan Leaf (mostly that the first service item in the manual is to change the Fob battery at 30K)
- VLM 9y agoA Yaris just runs. I can't have a "social media dashboard android controlled air conditioner" failure because that stuff is all mechanical, the way I like it.