[s-cars] Work vehicle advice needed
calvinlc at earthlink.net
calvinlc at earthlink.net
Tue Dec 19 23:37:30 EST 2006
Taka, I believe you are wrong here. The F-series before the 1997 changeover
had fine crash test ratings! 1994-1996 5 stars on both sides baby!
Checkout the NHTSA website. I believe you are being tainted by the reports
on the F-series trucks between 1997 and 2004 where they used inferior metal
in the frames. This has nothing to do with the earlier models I am talking
about...unless you know something more specific than that, if you do please
let me know because I certainly don't want to be steering people in the
wrong direction. I'm really just trying to help and save you a ton of money
by buying an older truck. If there is some report you have that shows these
models are unsafe I would really like to see it because I hate having
incorrect info.
Besides that, we could do a rear end collision, my '91 F-150 into your
STi...let's say I hit you around 35 mph with somebody in your
backseat....probably not good results on the old STi...I think the occupants
might wind up in a "crumple zone."
--Calvin
-----Original Message-----
From: Taka Mizutani [mailto:t44tqtro at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 6:24 AM
To: calvinlc at earthlink.net
Cc: Young, Steve; S-CAR-List
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Work vehicle advice needed
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
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