2011 FORD Fiesta pics...

[chrisj]

I love that dope Mike Rowe on those commercials where the writing on the bottom says that initial satisfaction with Fords is better than Toyota. I see the key here as INITIAL. Hell, I can't think of any brand new cars I've owned that have broken down in the first year. Not even in the 70's, 80's, or 90's. But, I don't drive a car for 2 years and trade like many other people do. I drive them until the wheels fall off, and in every American car I have had, that has been well short of anything I can get out of a Toy. That's my own personal experience, having had nearly every American brand there was until finally running a 1979 Corolla for a couple hundred thousand miles and selling it to a guy who ran it that much more.

We had a 1998 Avalon that had 196,000 miles on it when I gave it to my daughter to drive. She still drives it everywhere every day. We never once had anything like a tuneup done on that car. Not one thing was ever done to it except a key switch had to be replaced several years ago. We changed the oil regularly and that is it. We did no scheduled maintenance BS.