My father was a Mopar man & I tried to respect and uphold that preference.
Honestly aren’t 1970, 71 and 72 big block Cudas glorious?
But in the ‘80s I went with Toyota’s for the sake of reliability.
In the ‘90s when my kids were expensive and my income was inadequate, I couldn’t afford new vehicles or the exorbitant resale costs of foreign cars so I had to go with GM.
Some were great, some were mediocre, some were terrible.
I didn’t like the way GM mismanaged their money or reorganized after their bail out - that I didn’t much like either but I kept on buying and driving used GM products until a few years ago.
I had a Saturn Relay that kept overheating. I replaced the radiator, hoses, thermostat, thermostat housing and water pump. The evil beast still overheated. In the weeks I tried to fix it, I unbolted the thermostat housing maybe a couple dozen times. There was one bolt that was so wickedly placed I became convinced that GM engineers were purely evil sadists.
The last time I failed at resolving the overheating problem, I sold the thing for scrap and became a Ford man.
Fords may not be perfect but I’ve been much happier.
My oldest son moved out before my conversion so he still contends with OBS Chevy trucks that are broke down more than they run. Every now and then I’ll ask him how many miles the F350 he drives at work has. Last time I asked he said it had about 325,000 miles. He still hasn’t figured out why I ask him that every time his Chevy is inoperable.
