(Poll): Whats your favorite pickup truck?

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Owned 4wd trucks as daily drivers for over 30 years. Two.

1982 Toyota (no name back then) SRS 4x4
2000 Toyota Tundra SRS 4x4

 

[sophie]

Let me put it this way, if my Grandpa was alive he wouldn't be driving no Toyota and neither would my Dad. I have 2 Ford trucks and one Chevy truck and like them all. One Super Duty, an F150, and a C10.

 

[gdnagle]

My favorite is one that stays running. My 93 Ranger with 200 miles short of 300K has been great. Besides the oil changes, 2 heater cores, Chinese junk from auto zone, and several brush changes in the alternator and has run like a champ including hitting a deer at 70mph and only bending the bumper and cracking the headlight and grill. I let off the breaks when I saw it was gonna happen and she went under not over. Now our 07 F150 only has 50K but has never had a problem.

 

[Grayfox]

42 years a mechanic. Mostly in fleets that were rode hard every day. I seen and worked on them all.
Nothing can out work or out last a Ford.

 

[Laketime]

Doesn't really matter what we like.The general public has made Ford the number one selling truck 39 yrs in a row.Now considering that the Ford has also been the most expensive truck says it all.

 

[walkin jack]

In my vast experience at driving and owning pickup trucks It is my considered opinion that the Ford F-150 with the big SIX in it is the best on the road and has been for a long long time. I've had a couple of Rangers and they were excellent for what they were my my 10 year old F-150 has been and is STILL Awesome.

A couple of things though I'm very easy on a vehicle. After 10 years I am still only at 90,000 miles. And also I take meticulous care of my vehicles. I think a lot of vehicles that don't hold up so well would do a lot better with prober care care and routine preventive maintenance.

My vehicles do spend a LOT of time on the beach. I have kept Fords as long as 11 years and not one spec of rust ever. I had a 1981 1-ton chevy that rusted to pieces in less that 7 years.

When it was 7 years old I turned it over to my best friend in life and he completely restored it. He put a sliding back glass in it but there was so little metal left he almost couldn't save it.

Kind of funny too because I paid extra for a package called "Deep Seal Paint Protection" Guaranteed to repair all rust. After a year and a half I had several places that had started to rust so I took it in. The service manager took a look and started shaking his head.

No no no. This is just surface rust. We won't touch it until it rusts all the way through the metal. Say WHAT?!?! All you have to do is hit it a lick with a little wet/dry sand paper, put a spot of primer and a color coat and a clear coat and we're done. You wanna wait till you have to do a lot of welding and bondo etc???

He just grinned at me. Also after 6 years it started nickle and diming me to to deah. I name it Shasta...Shasta have this, Shasta have that...New water pump here, alternator and starter there, etc, etc, etc.

Been drivin' Fords now for about 25 years and still waiting for my first issue or problem. I know a lot of folks swear by Chevys and GMC but I never had any luck with em.

 

[DR505]

My Grandfather, Father, and Uncle owned a construction company. Their dump trucks were Mack, and their P/U trucks were Ford.

Sorry Hillbilly, but the wave has swept the bow-tie crowd under.

 

[Bullet Bob]

My favorite truck is whatever one a friend will let me borrow when I need one.

 

[walkin jack]

Note: We all form opinions based upon the experiences we have had. Different experiences with result in different opinions. Nothing is all good or all bad. No one is all right or all wrong. If you get good service out of one brand of truck or another you should stick with it until it lets you down. I think that is what we all do for the most part.

 

[Plain Old Dave]

What do you get when you cross a tractor and a pickup truck? A Dodge Flat Fender Power Wagon.

 

[Malpasowildlifer]

old power wagon

 

[glowe]

Toyota Tundra, they're built right here in the United States. There are more American made parts in it than either Ford or GM. And unlike the Bowties, they didn't need a bail-out.

No company totally fits the Made in USA category, but there is no question where the profits go when it comes to US operations of foreign companies. Foreign cars are mostly just assembled in the US, and that is typically the type of facility foreign companies build and maintain here. The rest is being done in other lower cost of manufacture countries (like many US companies). More to the point, the final assembly typically is the lowest cost/value item on that list. The upshot is that final assembly of foreign cars in the US is a feel-good public-relations measure that does relatively little to limit the export of dollars and jobs.

Also, not all “US” built vehicles made by foreign companies come from the US, even when advertised US made. When Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. orders Tacoma pickups for far-west distribution, it gets them mostly from Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California, a Mexican assembly plant south of San Diego.

Bottom line is that foreign made vehicles made here do not generate as much money for the US economy as US companies. TYhey got their bail-out from the Japanese government. If that is the reason why people buy those vehicles, they are being miss-informed. After all, they are still called Japanese Auto Makers.

 

[JohnSW]

I have a Ford Ranger.

I have been pouting ever since Ford announced that the Ranger was being discontinued.

It will be interesting to see how the new aluminum bodied Ford F-150 works out. That's a pretty "radical" change for a vehicle that is their best seller.

The F-150 is too big for my needs though. Parking a full-sized truck in urban/suburban areas is a pain.

 

[PA Guns & Ammo]

Chevy/GMC should be on the same line. I voted for Chevy. Ford's do not have the low end torque like Chevy's do. I'm only talking about gas engines. I do however like the newer Ford's Eco-boost engines.

James

 

[JohnSW]

No company totally fits the Made in USA category,...

My understanding is that, for the US market, the original Ford Transit Connect vans were all made in Turkey, and the new version will all be made in Spain.

 

[madmikeb]

I don't think you'll find that this is correct. There are more domestically sourced parts in many Toyota's than in many of the big Threes Automobiles. Of course this varies from model to model.

 

[glowe]

My understanding is that, for the US market, the original Ford Transit Connect vans were all made in Turkey, and the new version will all be made in Spain.

We are talking about pickups in this thread.

The The Kogod Made in America Auto Index, 2014 ranks the Ford Transit at mid-field for made in USA. It is rated 160 out of 319 total reviewed by Kogod. I added a comparison to the top 10 pickups as well.

OEM….Make….Model….Labor….R&D….Transmission….Inventory….Engine…........Body….Index Score
Ford…...Ford…..Transit.…….0………..6….….….….0……..….….…...0……..….…...0…….…..2.5………….14.5

Ford….…Ford….F-Series…….6………..6…………….7………………….11…………….14…………37.5……….87.5
Toyota..Toyota..Tundra…….6………..3…………….7………………….11…………….14…………37.5……….78.5
GM………GMC…..Sierra……....6……….6……………..7………………….11…………….14………….20…………..70
GM………Chey…Silverado…...6………..6……………..7…………………11…………….14………….20…………..70
Chrysler.Dodge..Ram6……..3……….7…………….11………………….11……………..0……….....33………....63
Nissan…Nissan…..Frontier…6………3……………..0…………………11……………..14…………..25………….59
Toyota..Toyota…..Tacoma..6……….3…………….7……….…………11……………….0……………30………….57
Nissan…Nissan……Titan…….6……….3…………….0……………..….11…….…….….14..…………25……….…59

 

[Donn]

GMC Sierra, because that's what's in the driveway. It'll be there till it quits running,,, or I do.

 

[Farmer17]

I ordered a new F-150 Crewcab in 1999 and it was a great truck for six years and I worked it pretty hard every day in my construction business and sold it with 160K miles. I had virtually no problems the whole time I owned it. Then I bought a 2004 Nissan Titan Crew cab and had it for 10 years and had 255K fairly trouble free miles and it was an even better truck. The gas mileage wasn't that great but it was really built like a 3/4 ton truck, and it was darn tough. I am around pickups every day and can't figure out why Nissan hasn't tried to keep up with the more modern design pickups.

 

[Rastoff]

This is an impossibly skewed poll. The Ford F series is the second best selling vehicle of all time. Even though many will vote for something else, the F-150 will get the most votes if only by default.