[s-cars] Work vehicle advice needed

[Taka Mizutani]

Reliability might be decent on a 94-96 Ford, but safety? I think not.

The '04+ F-series has good crash testing results- the prior trucks do not.

I won't get any truck that doesn't crash test well- I see far too many
accidents on
I-95 here, involving multiple cars and sometimes tractor-trailers.

Taka


On 12/18/06, calvinlc at earthlink.net <calvinlc at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> While I don't know about the newer ones, I can tell you that the 5 speed
> manual in the older F-150's was perfectly reliable.  Also, on the earlier
> F250's the 460 was rated at 410 lb-ft, so not quite the 444 that the
> diesel
> was but pretty close.  Of course this isn't like the newer ones rated at
> 500+ but then again neither is the price tag of around 7k to 10k for a
> 1996
> F-250...and for a few extra bucks you can do what we do to our Audis.  A
> chip can gain you 85 HP and 172 ft-lbs, for a total of over 600
> ft-lbs.  You
> gotta love the hair dryers :)  I also do not know how the automatics of
> this
> generation compare to what Steve is speaking about in the newer trucks.  I
> do know that if you look at the reliability on 94-96 F-250's you will find
> them ranked at the very top.
> --Calvin
>