Cars - For Car Enthusiasts

Well yeah.

I can buy a Ford Ranger Raptor for $65k or a Toyota Tacoma Trail Hunter for $65k. I know that the Toyota out performs the Ranger in nearly every meaningful way and has a history of lasting twice as long without major maintenance.

Fords and Chevy have always been marketed as the working class car/truck, they're supposed to be cheap, capable and tough. With the idea of the owner performing self maintenance. But now they are some of the most expensive and ridiculously out of proportion vehicles on the road. On paper they're impressive but worthless in less than 5 years, so buy one used and hope you can get 5 more years before it falls apart.

One of their selling points was they were mass produced American made and assembled. But now most of the vehicles are built and mostly assembled in other countries, with only the final stages in the US so they can avoid import taxes.

Ford/Chevy/Chrysler have destroyed themselves and just because they have an office the US doesn't make them US automakers when they don't make automobiles in the US anymore. They never should've gotten US government bailouts. If anything the bailout should have come from countries where their factories are actually located. Fuck em.