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I had a Ford Windstar for several years. The transmission and head gasket were replaced, the tie rods were replaced twice, several issues with the traction control, and for some reason the interior light liked to stay on for a while if you opened the back hatch.
I'm now driving a used honda accord and love it. I will never buy another ford again.
Chrysler at one time used (and maybe it still does) a Mitsubishi engine i.e. you can buy a Chrysler (American brand) with an engine made by another country.
Thanks. The only reason i kept repairing the car is because I didn't want to buy a new one and be stuck with payments. We bought the Windstar in 98 and kept it until a few months ago.
My opinion (more of a fact if you want to get technical) is that back before 1973, American cars were very sturdy, dependable and lasted a long time....while some foreign cars were built cheap that just didn't last.
Then somewhere along the line some of the foreign cars took America's technology and refined it and put it into their cars....while American cars decided to start getting cheap to save on costs PLUS to gert you to HAVE to buy a new car every 5 years....first said to have gone cheap around 1973....but by 1979/80 for sure with the new FWD American cars that were built to maybe last 100k miles before you junked them for a new one.
LOL....i'm a mom, so not much into style anymore, mainly reliability.
Just because your a mom doesn't mean you can't have style !! LOL I remember growing up my mother would not drive anything remotely family oriented. I got shoved in the back of Daytona Turbo Z's and Eagle Talons... it sucked back then but when I was old enough to drive , and borrow their cars it wasn't too bad !
I like reliability as well, that is why I usually chose Ford or Chevy. For me they just run, and run, and run. I have never owned a Ford product that I sold with LESS than 175,000 miles and still running. I usually get tired of driving them long before they die. My Chevy's in the yard right now have 177,000 miles and 289,000 miles on them, the Ford is the baby of the bunch and hardly broken in with only 55,000 miles. (Even had a Geo Metro POS that went 150,000 miles before I had to sell it for a move.)
Only Foreign vehicles I have owned were nightmares for repairs and costly. Honda, Toyota, Nissan, & Subaru all have left me walking along the side of the road, several times for some of them.
Nowadays, I don't think there's really any quality gap between domestics and imports, rather a Perception gap between the 2.
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