R U thinking of a new tundra

Made in the USA ( I think ), and the new body style and 320 HP with 4x4 and tow package. Needed something to tow the 95 Nautique reliably.

Traded in our 2000 Montero Sport for a 2007 Chevy Tahoe !!

Go Warriors and Sharks !!

Well said Randy, everyones bitching about their buying american cars, but noone really seems to say much about other things they buy, is your microwave american? how about your washer/dryer? Water Faucets in your house? Power tools?... exactly, lets it rest, the imports are competing with our big 3 and doing pretty decent to say the least, to me it kinda sounds like the same argument over & over... 5 pages & every other or 3rd post reads the same baseline.

Nate

neck-i disagree. thats all i will say due to my graphic pov ....

ryanandrews wrote: maybe you shoulda bought a jap boat..

2 things: I'm not PC at all, and I could care less, but I think "jap" is offensive. I lived with a Japanese kid my freshman year of college and he was a pretty cool guy...just one of the things I gathered was that "jap" isn't really a good word for them anymore.

2nd: Apples to oranges with the boats to cars thing...no one's arguing that Correct Craft isn't a good boat. No one's saying that the marinized SBC and Fords in our boats aren't good enough either. Talking about cars and trucks. Apples to oranges. That having been said, I know the outboard market is pretty well contested by Japanese makers.

Why is it that everyone is so conscientious on where their car is manufactured but no one seems to care about where anything else is manufactured? Where I live, North Canton, Ohio, home of Hoover appliances. Hoover was bought by Maytag a few years ago. most of the jobs were moved to Mexico as they ran the company into the ground producing crap. It was recently bought by a company out of Korea who announced that it will be closing the North Canton facility.
No one seems to care where their Appliances, TV's, computers, etc. are manufactured. Why not boycott the manufactures of Appliances,TV's and computers that are not American?

At least the Honda and Toyota are creating Jobs in America.

87BFN owner wrote: One thing about imports there metal quality sucks why is that. Most 10 year old cars tend to rust some. But it would seem the imports rust out faster. My have something to do with living in the rust belt? Just my opinion from day to day abservations while driving on the road.

10 years ago I would agree with this statement. Not anymore. My nine year old Tacoma which has been driven every winter in NE Ohio does not have one spot of rust. Open your eyes and look around, vehicles domestic and foreign don't rust like they used to.

JoeinNY wrote: you cant generalize this stuff

Thank you, enough of the Ford (domestic, blah blah whatever) drum beating already.

I too had good luck with mid nineties escorts, had three all were still running well into the mid 200000s before I drove what was left of them after the new york salt got them to the junk yard. The later 90's escorts however with the dual over head cam engines warp heads like it was thier job, you dont used replacements too easy because of that...

you cant generalize this stuff

I guess I should ask you this then, MY latest aquirement is a 95 escort 229K on the clock. The original clutch was changed at 219k. Its an american car, no problems. Got it from my buddy and he bought it with 60k on it. Always need a work car, no one at work pays attention. So beaters to drive to work are great.

One thing about imports there metal quality sucks why is that. Most 10 year old cars tend to rust some. But it would seem the imports rust out faster. My have something to do with living in the rust belt? Just my opinion from day to day abservations while driving on the road.

maybe you shoulda bought a jap boat..

My '99 Mercury Mountaineer has 141,000K miles. Besides scheduled tune-ups and stuff, I only had to fix a ball joint, four cracked windshields and broken side view mirror from clowning around at Gillette Stadium.


Ken

Wouldn't it be so much easier if we had boobs on our chest and bought cars based on cupholders and color?

   Oh,wanted to say one more thing regarding fords.I have never been a ford fan,always grew up in Chevys.I would rather own a Dodge than a Ford(which admittedly,is very sad).
Last spring my wife went shopping for a "summer car".She came home with a brand new 06 Mustang Gt.I wanted to slap her(not really,but you know what I mean).I told her she had to park it across the street at her sisters house.I broke down and drove it one day and I was amazed.It has to be one of the nicest performance vehicles I have driven.It has all kinds of power,handles like it's on rails,has zero road noise(onheard of for a ragtop)and the fit and finish is top notch.Quite an impressive car.I still have not told her that I like it

    Mike

Brian; You knew the correct year of the start of the Taurus model, BFN didn't and he is a Ford employee. Also you always have level-headed comments whenever this well-worn topic comes up.

I know you ain't easy to lose.

john