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Originally Posted by wildchild
got you beat, I have a chevy car, ford truck and a Jeep. LOL
no toyotas for me thanks. I agree about the Honda cars, they make some nice, I just can't make myself pay money for one.
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Oh yeah I won't bad mouth a Honda anything. They make good shit! But I won't buy one of their cars. Although I think a SC2000 is drool worthy!
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Originally Posted by wildchild
back to the original question. I have 130,000 trouble free miles on my '02 5.4 Ford. good maint goes a long way to keeping things going.
if it's a used anything you take a risk that the previous owner didn't do maint.
I do like the Chevy as well.
Stylewise I would lean towards the Chevy. Never really loved the expy although it's not bad by any means.
Only trick I would mention would be if trying out the older Ford, push the little button to switch the trans into tow mode. two wires in the column have a tend to strip and not operate. Not a big deal but you want to know about it. mine is out right now, have to pull the cover off and solder them up.
Ford's 4.6 is a completely useless motor. Don't buy one.
Chevy's small V8 actually felt pretty good and had decent towing.
Ergonomically I like Dodge but they don't seem to have anything with a good track record or towing cap. Although a boat you should be able to haul with any half ton. too many trans issues with dodges also.
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This! My last F150 had the 5.4. Nice ass truck! Back seat was freakin huge!
And it did this duty so well I hardly knew it was all back there
