+1 Viking396. I have owned several Fords and have not had a problem with any of them. My father has bought 16 Fords over the years and has never had any problem with any of them. As a matter of fact, lately when he decides to buy a new one, I buy the old one and then pass it on to my son. Ford means "Quality is job 1". I'm buying their stock by the way while it is cheap. Check it out in the next year or two.

 

Domestics are actually pulling ahead of Toyata in quality now. They may have been better in the past, but now thats a misconseption. Plus I personally now people who work for bothFord and Toyota. Fords employees are treated well while Toyotas are disposable. You get hurt on the job there your fired. no way am I supporting a company like that, or sending my hard earned money into the Japanese economy.

 

I hope you all are correct about domestic vehicle quality being comparable or exceeding foreign. I'd prefer to buy domestic. My experiences since the early 70's when I began paying for my own vehicles always proved that the foreign "bang-for-the-buck" was better where my foreign cars faired much better in reliability and repairability (my last domestic vehicle was from '81). We all have our stories of good and bad cars.Hopefully, being a Ford customer now, I'll see things differently.

Rick
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There are only two things that failed me on the mustang. It was the alternator and the transmission.Besides those two things, everything has been working just fine! Oh and i take my mustang out to the track almost every week. So yea i think i beat on my mustang pretty hard...

 

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Lol, but otherwise yeah thats a good point.

 

My damn Ford made it 19,000 miles and the engine blew up without reason. FORD FOR LIFE!

 

I'm curious about the lifespan on this newest generation of pony cars. I took a 64 1/2 coupe w/289-4V to college, I put 92k on a 72 convertible w/351C-4V and drove a 91 5.0 LX 5 speed convertible 125k with no real problems. As typical the 5.0 ear seal began to leak about 90k, but the weekend I sold her I went head to head on the interstate with a Z28 convertible, redlined every shift and she held together (and beat him to the next exit!). I hope the 4.6 is proven enough and the automatic will stand the test of time. I plan on buying a GT convertible over the winter--maybe late Jan or Feb.

 

One would expect that if you maintained the drive train regularly, it would hold up for 150K to 200K or more, even if you redline the engine 10 times a day. My assumptions are you have a manual transmission and don't regularly grind the gears. This assumption does not include the clutch as personal driving habits will affect clutch wear(I personally got 150K out of the clutch on my last daily driver, although it did not have the horsepower of my Stang) My assumptions also assumes no FI. If your Mustang is an automatic and you beaton itregularly, it islikely the tanny will go relatively quickly. The bottom line is that if you change the fluids and filters regularly, drive a manual, have decent driving skills and don'thave FI,you will probably get a lot of miles out of your ride without major repairs. Hopefully you can keep the exterior and interior nice too.

 

well as far as clutch problems go . . .

i have over 300 wheel and i do redline clutch drops on ET streets . . . STOCK CLUTCH . . .

still have no problems outta clutch and it hasn't slipped once . . . stocky FTW!!!!

 

I think the design of cars has improved vastly over these past years. To be honest, I lay the blame on the owner, and not the car. Viking, I agree completely with you.