Getting back to Ford, I know. It's a great car. I have over 40,000 miles on it, and I've never had to bring it in for service. I love how at idle the whole car just shakes, and then the chassis really can't handle the torque, so it fishtails under really torqued turns.. God I love that.

You never had to service your Stang!?! you must have a horse shoe up your ass or something. It doesn't have to do with the Irish, I know that

No.. beside oil changes and regular stuff like tire rotation, no I haven't. It's the most reliable thing ever. Even after running it above redline, she's still very responsive and everything seems to be ship shape.

No, I think it is because your lucky as hell...because it's a Ford, are you familar with the acronym of Ford?

Damn, so much negativity. Fords really aren't that bad anymore. I own a ford from the era that gave ford the acronym you're referring to and even that isn't too terribly bad.

That Ford that almost killed me was a newer one, a 2000. And Apollo's Stang was last generation and fits in that slot

You worked on a Ranger.. get over it. People have been inside Lexus' when the engine just started on fire, does that mean all Lexus' are deathtraps? No. I love my stang. She's great. The more I drive it the more I love it.

You don't understand because you probably haven't had an experience like that. You also don't have the field experience I have either...

No but I do have a car that I work on a lot, and luckily I have quite a few knowledgable friends to really soak up what there is to learn about engines.

Ok, now you're starting to sound really pissy and immature. First, you DON'T have the field experience you claim you do; second, 1 bad experience with 1 vehicle does NOT spoil the rest. Remember when I wrote about my '85 Explorer? I know of SEVERAL people with the same story about their Fords. My buddy has an '01 Mustang SVT Cobra, and now swears by Mustangs, because they are renowned as being reliable. You want to know UNRELIABLE JUNK? Try an '80s Hyundai Pony. The "acronym" for Ford is a load of ****. I've seen more '88-2000 Chevy Silverados on the back of tow-trucks, or dead on the side of the road than the total Fords I've counted. Quite frankly, Ford's "reputation" is a biased load of ****, invented by pro-GM and pro-Dodge fanatics to support THEIR argument of which is better. It has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with facts. From the '50s through till the end of the '80s the trucks were the most reliable trucks on the planet. The next 2 generations were also decent trucks. The new Super Duties are the best work trucks on the planet as well, better even than the new Dodges (this is coming from a Dodge fan). Why do you think they sell so well huh? It's not because of their false reputation, but because they are actually decent trucks. The same applies to their cars.

Put differently, why would Ford be the HUGE automaker that it is, with an almost cult-following, if they built shoddy vehicles? If their products were garbage then nobody would buy them (which is why Oldsmobile went bankrupt, and the same is happening to Chrysler right now).

I am not biased toward GM, Dodge, or any specific manufacturer and how would you know anything regarding my life and experiences. I've been to hell and back trying to scrape what little money I have to survive and mostly all of my profits come from working on cars. So I'd shut the **** up if I were you, stupid mother****a...Secondly, in case you haven't noticed, Ford has been going downhill. Try reading the business section of the newspaper for once, you may learn something...****in hate pricks like you, I never had any problems with you before and now your startin ****...

You are an 18 year-old punk who THINKS he knows what's going on in life. Ford's apparent decline in sales is also shared by GM and Daimler, and it has NOTHING to do with quality, but rather the demands of the public. You think you're the only person who's scraping to get by? Guess what? You're not. Everybody who hasn't had everything handed to them has had to walk a shoe-string budget and work several jobs just to make ends meet.

You're swearing about is proving your immaturity. I'm not starting anything, you were ALREADY getting pissy from the start, for something stupid to begin with. It's THAT attitude that gives previous generations the opinions they already have of ours. I never thought I'd say it, but; a little humility would go a long way. Grow up.

I may be 18 but I've seen and experienced more **** that you, I know for a fact. My financial stability is much worse that yours as well

Where's a moderator when a thread could use one?

I second this.

Also, all auto manufactures are feeling the strain of a bad economy and the "green" revolution. It is hard to tell if it is going to pull any under but I have faith that GM, Chrysler, and Ford will survive this.