Topic: So how many miles are too many on a pick up

[marstone]

Keep looking at Fords, here is a snip of todays news:

A Government Accountability Office report released Monday is the latest review to cast doubt on the likelihood that taxpayers will fully recoup more than $80 billion invested in the two U.S. automakers.

Treasury officials told the GAO that they are considering initial public offerings or private sales to dispose of the government's nearly 10 percent stake in Chrysler and 61 percent share of GM. But government officials won't say when that could happen because they don't want to undermine the potential return on the investment.

The report comes on the same day Ford – which did not take government bailout funds – reported a $1 billion net income in the third quarter and forecast a "solidly profitable" 2011.

[Age]

Ford used to make a 500,000 mile motor. The 300 inline 6. They dropped all their inlines back in the 90's.

They never made street 500 and the inline 300 six was dropped in place of v6.I did like the inline 300 six tough little bugger.

[Dracho]

I just traded my 1997 GMC Savana Conversion van for a 2008 Ford E150 Regency Conversion van.  What a difference a decade makes!  That 5.3L V8 gets 21 MPG on the highway!   My GM didn't get 21 MPG rolling downhill in neutral.. with the engine turned off.

And GM, at least in vans, makes the worst A/C ever to try and cool a vehicle.  My '97 Winnebago is built on a GM chassis with a 454 and I think my Ford Ranger 4-cylinder has more power.