Just the opposite here..central Mass..but again GM and Ford will have an uphill battle against "yota". In particular the reliability crown-real or imagined.
The entire thing feels like a contradiction. You're climbing up into this taller vehicle, but you have to tilt at a 45 degree angle to avoid hitting your head. It feels like you're getting into a lifted Camaro, high off the ground, but no headroom, I've never experienced another modern SUV/truck like this.
One of the people sitting in the third row was having to sit at an angle, with their head cocked to the side, also touching the roof. I genuinely couldn't believe how bad and uncomfortable this thing was. I'll say this, it definitely made me appreciate and realize just how good our maverick hybrid and explorer were. Those things drive like luxury cars by comparison.
It's really frustrating, at least to me personally, to see sub par vehicles dominating their segments, purely because they can coast on their reputation for what they used to be. For all of their flaws, it seems like the teams who work on Fords, Ford trucks in particular, are putting actual effort in. They have class leading tech, power, and capability, and are generally pretty reliable across the board it would seem. You look at Ford trucks, and you understand why most of their trucks are in high demand.
Then you see brands like Toyota who, pardon my crassness, seem to half-ass a lot of their products, and they just get away with it because their target audience is still living in 1982. I literally knew someone who had one of the newer Tundras, the ones with that problematic v6, tell me my explorer with the virtually indestructible 3.5 duratec was gonna be an unreliable car long term simply because it was a Ford. These people aren't living in reality.
Let's not forget that Ford abandoning that segment made customers migrate to GM and Toyota, those consumers are probably on their 2nd Taco/Canyonrado since 2011...good luck trying to get them to return.
Clearly, GM is getting those truck sales where Ford buyers seem to be pulling back a bit,
not sure if this is as simple as not supplying right vehicles in time or perhaps it’s still
building an unfavourable mix to fleet. Whatever the reason, GM seems to be powering on….
Most do not know that... when I worked at Exide (before all the comotion) a lead acid battery lasted about 3-4.
Willard.Batteries (who I actually word for) boasted that... but it was 1977-78
Older US cities copied Europe's glorified alleys, and many newly built single and multifamily developments are sized for something like an Explorer or smaller.
Could it be the GM's have a "wow" factor and the Ranger IMO looks dated right out of the box?
As for Taco, how many young drivers grew up in a household where the family vehicle was a Toyota?
This old guy grew up in a family where the cars, trucks, tractors all had Blue Ovals or Ford in Script on them...and I passed that down to my sons