Good news for American car/truck builders

What a load! A good statistician can make the numbers say anything they want! So they base the reliability of a vehicle on the number of miles until the vehicle is considered worthless? To me that says absolutely nothing about the reliability of a vehicle or vehicle brand or how troublesome said vehicles and brands may be. The article looked like pure fiction to me!

I once put a yard and a half into a '90 F150 not knowing any better. The guy in the yard said are you SURE? I said yep. Didn't take up that much space in my 8 foot bed. I watched the bed go down, down and down some more. Was hanging just above the tires. I had a big gulp and got in to go the short distance home. The bed of the truck was literally swinging side to side a couple of inches but made it. Dummy me.

And if you want a great heavy-hauler and not just a pseudo truck ... The US trucks are the top 3! Craig

Ron3rd wrote:

azchuckmo wrote:
I'd like to see a tundra with 4 tons of sand in bed, like my ford carried,

You carried 8,000 lbs in the bed of your pickup?

Anything's possible on the internets:)

azchuckmo wrote:
I'd like to see a tundra with 4 tons of sand in bed, like my ford carried,

You carried 8,000 lbs in the bed of your pickup?

azchuckmo wrote:
I'd like to see a tundra with 4 tons of sand in bed, like my ford carried,

A yard of sand weighs a little over a ton... how did you get FOUR yards of sand in a standard 8 foot bed? Besides the fact that you would be WAY overloaded with 8000+ lbs of carried weight, it seems unlikely that you could stack sand in the relatively small confines of a pickup truck bed.
Also, did you put that in the 8 foot bed of a F150? Because that would be a more direct comparison to the half ton Tundra. Not an EXACT comparison, because the F150 can be configured with much higher GVWR than the Tundra, but a more direct one.
I assume you probably have a 350. If that's the case, I would like to see your 350 with 300 tons of sand in the bed, like the Hitatchi Euclid carried...
http://www.dieselpowermag.com/features/0804dp_10_largest_dump_trucks/viewall.html

See, we can all make ridiculous statements...

I'd like to see a tundra with 4 tons of sand in bed, like my ford carried,

Great to see! Thanks for posting Skipnchar.

Our F150 rides better than a car, with 175,000 miles plus on it.
I've had to replace number 8 coil twice and plugs once.
Only thing was keeping check on oil level as the 5.4 has used oil since day one.
I'm going to spend a little money on it instead of trading. The trucks are just too expensive, for me, now.
The C channel will certainly be less stiff. I saw one advertisement about going to an aluminum frame, I thought. I don't think that is a good idea. It would do for Soccer Moms who don't haul anything but groceries but any weight or towing a no no, I think.
It's to save weight and CAFE averages and too heck for suitability of the vehicle.
For the prices, now, they should be made of rhodium.
Henry Ford made some steering and suspension pieces out of 100% Vanadium on Model T or maybe it was the Model A.
They should make the frames out of it.It could be lighter and stronger.

This is good news for all manufacturers and shows that the "domestic" brands have basically caught up with the other brands in terms of reliability.

I can attest to this first hand. I used to own a 2005 Jeep Liberty. I told myself that I would never own another Chrysler product after that vehicle. After spending a lot of time with the new RAM trucks I was blown away by the quality improvements. The materials are much better. I went from a 2013 Tundra to a 2014 RAM and I can say by any measure of quality I've found (interior materials, serviceability, design, etc) the RAM is on par with the Tundra.

I've always liked GM vehicles. My family has had very good luck with them. My dad buys Chevy trucks for his construction company and he has never had any major issues. My grandfather is a salesman that puts about 50,000 a year on his vehicles. He drives Chevy cars and he puts hundreds of thousands of miles on them before trading them in.