What would you purchase?

Toyota!
I have no faith in Ford quality, from personal experience.
Ford's slogan used to be that Quality is job #1, well they must have started numbering jobs at negative 100.

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even if they were the same vehicle, I would still buy the Toyota, no more of my money will go to Ford!

 

Well, my wife has a Windstar and I used to own a Probe. I think it would depend on the options and the look. Hey, I didn't even consider a Honda hybrid. If Saturn had a good looking hybrid I'd get that too. A Focus hybrid, maybe.

 

If there's an admin listening, please close this poll.

He's just trying to get people to vote for Toyota to prove how we're all un-patriotic americans.

 

Toyota = innovation, vision, reliability, moving toward better efficiency

Ford = old formula, myopic, reliability no better then B-, 'We'll wait till petrol is over $3.00 a gallon, then we'll worry about it...'

And I own a Ford!

 

Your rhetoric on the other thread would speak otherwise. You just stopped short of saying that Toyota brainwashed the American public to buy their cars through the media.

 

That being said, you should have a 3rd option anyway. No opinion.

I have never owned a Ford, but I have owned a Toyota, but my impressions of Ford are mostly positive, especially with their hybrid technology which seems like a close cousin to Toyota's.

I don't particularly like Ford's design aesthetic... it got downright weird with the Taurus... I think Toyota makes just better "looking" cars while Fords are slightly more utilitarian.

 

It'd have to be the Ford.

Since it's designed for the American and probably European markets, it'd probably have seats that are adjustable and a tilt steering wheel.

And since Ford seems to be moving in a more positive direction regarding hybrids, I don't see how anyone can say anything other than Ford.

 

Once again, close the poll. He's clearly trying to prove something of us, and it's pretty clear what.

 

Why was your last poll closed?

 

Too bad the poll wasn't more of

Are you buying a certain car because of the company (GM, Toyota, Ford etc)?

Are you buying from a company because of the car?

I bought a Toyota because it was selling the Prius, not the Prius because it was sold by Toyota. I was against Toyota back in the '90s because a cow-worker treated Toyota like it was a god. I did see during the years they did have a reputation for reliability (largely via Consumer Reports I admit), so wasn't that unhappy when I first decided to get a Prius.

 

I'd go with Toyota, HOWEVER, only for this type of vehicle, at this time. Ford, like ALL vehicle manufacturers (well, except maybe for Yugo and some other off-beat names) tend to specialize in certain models. Ford does a spectacular job with their trucks, and Mustang line. If you were to ask whether I would get a truck from Toyota, or a truck from Ford, it would be hands-down, Ford.

 

<_< Fact is, now we have 3 active threads discussing the same thing (without actually including it in the title):

Globalism vs. Nationalism
Lots of good points on both sides.
Few converts for either side because most of us already know enough about the subject to have established stable positions.

Could we settle on one thread to house this debate please?

 

I agree.

It would be great if that was the extent of the debate, and I'd think it would be much more civil...

but malorn continues to depict Toyota as some evil force of globalism, and somehow it alone is the cause of all of the economic problems in the US. I think at the point where he claimed that Toyota is causing the next great depression, he brought the discourse to a much lower level.