Tango51

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CIPHER

This ^^^ I've driven trucks for the last 20 years. The last three were Silverados. It had been awhile since driving a Ford, but they offered A-plan to extended family a couple of years ago and I made the jump. Very happy I did. The only regret is that it took me 20k miles to figure out what Sport mode meant. lol

bassJAM

I spent about 14 hours on the highway over the course of a few days in a 2018 Ram Laramie rental. I was impressed. It was comfortable, the infotainment system was lightyears ahead of my Sync 3 head unit, and the hemi engine ran really well and managed 18.5 mpg calculated basically running 80 mph the entire time. I dare say the handling was a touch better than my 2014 as well, and it was certainly more comfortable over less than perfect roads.

But for pure handling and road comfort, the 2018 Silverado I had as a rental for a few day this summer beats out both the Ram and the last 2 generations of F150's. The 5.3 was a little boring, but I'm pretty sure most of that was due to transmission tuning.

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bassJAM

You should still send the Japanese manufacturers a thank you letter. If they hadn't decided to sell cars and compact trucks here, vehicles from the Big 3 would still be steaming piles of crap. Competition basically forced them to start copying the reliability standards like Six Sigma that the Japanese were already using.

SD_F1504x4

I had many vehicles from many different brands over the years.

My previous experiences have told me that Chyrsler products have horrible engineering, even though they tend to look nice, be powerful, and have a lot of great features. Their vehicles suffer from too many common problems especially electrical gremlins which can get quite expensive. I had a 2000 Grand Cherokee with the 4.7 V8 and 4WD, it was an awesome ride when everything worked but something was always breaking down, I would get on the forums and see everyone had the exact same issues because these parts just weren't engineered right.

When it comes to GM, they are more reliable, and powerful but tend to suffer from mechanical problems. I really wanted to get an '07+ Tahoe, but I did some research and found that due to their AFM system, pretty much every V8 from '07+ with AFM tends to have oil starvation and is prone is premature failure. Didn't want to risk it.

As far as the imports, Toyotas are great, just pricey and probably harder to work on yourself.

I've had quite a few Fords now, and honestly they may not always be the best looking or the most powerful, but they just can't be beat when it comes to reliability. Crown Vics had to have been one of the most reliable vehicles of all time, along with the F-series pickups. They find a design that works and stick to it forever making a few adjustments over time. Now with the Coyote introduced in the Mustang and F150s, parts are easily availble and cheap enough. Should get easier to find in the junkyards throughout the years. Both my 2000 F150 and 2001 F250 were 200k+ miles and running perfectly.

BroncOBX

I have had over 22 years of reliable service from my 1996 Bronco. I have a good relationship with the sales and service department of my local Ford dealer for both personal and business vehicles. They gave me a very good deal on my 2018 F150 with no runaround on a special order vehicle.

RL1990

This is my first domestic vehicle and first truck so I had no loyalty to any of them. I chose Ford because in my family I've found that Ford vehicles hold up better over the years. They're not problem free but seem to have less problems and are built better. My immediate family only drove GM products and they seem to have lots of little problems. The power trains seem to hold up but the rest of the car literally falls apart. Except for the air conditioning, GM from the 80's and early 90's had the coldest A/C hands down. The Fords had fewer problems like screw falling out and interior trim pieces literally falling off or breaking in your hand. My uncle is a mechanic and he only drove Fords and bought Fords for his family so I figured there had to be a reason for that. Lastly my Dad, who was a GM man, bought a 1996 Mazda B3000 (rebadged Ford Ranger) brand new at the same time his next door neighbor bought a 1996 Chevy S-10. Long story short his Mazda B3000 is still going but the neighbors Chevy went to the junk yard years ago.

And because Ford leads everybody in truck innovation. There are more Ford first than from anybody else, From the locking tailgate to the aluminum construction, Ford invents it, introduces it first then everybody else follows. When Toyota and Nissan decided to do full size trucks they went and bought F-150s to reverse engineers not Silverados.

javelina1

I sought ours out because of the Aluminum Alloy, and I liked the spartan setup of my XL 4x4. I saw it had the e-locker, done deal. I love this truck!

kevin1727

Because a long time ago I bought a 1978 F-100. Absolutely base truck with vinyl seats and floor mats, straight 6, and 3 speed on the column. One of the best vehicles I ever owned. I eventually traded it for a family passenger car and after almost 40 years I finally had a need for a truck again.