Toyota commercial

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Originally Posted by straycat

Oh?.....And don't forget how many recalls Ford has had on..... gas tanks exploding, SUV's rolling and loosing wheels and cars and trucks burning down homes with cruise control issues????? Ford sucks as much as does any other vehicle for recalls.....

I know all manufacturers have their flaws. I was just pointing out how tacky the ads were.

[LearjetMinako]

Originally Posted by shane96ranger

Funny they pick on Ford in this video using a FORD TOW TRUCK. You know why that tow truck wasn't a Toyota?

WOW. That has worse rust problems than my 76' Chevy Nova. And the Nova has been driven in the winter at up state New York with their salt.

I hope Ford would revive the Ranger as a more modern truck. Thou I currently don't see that happening anytime soon. If my Ranger is every KIA, I'm buying another Ranger.

[straycat]

Originally Posted by lil_Blue_Ford

I know all manufacturers have their flaws. I was just pointing out how tacky the ads were.

All ads are tacky, Bro. I only like animal commercials. I hate watching sports or car and truck ads...they all suck.....lol

[ronclark]

Originally Posted by tony314

They are trying to get Ranger owners over to them now that the Ranger is gone. They see us as their new market base. I'll keep fixing my Ranger, thanks!

I am keeping my 87 for as long as she hold together.
So far she is going strong at 25 years old

[gn2]

It looks like an late 80's fullsize. Toyota Did not even offer a fullsize pickup back then.

[Twister]

Looks like a ranger to me, the tail lights dont look like t100 ones. The t100's lights have a big white section on the top, but the one in the pick has a small white spot on the bottom.

T100

[gribly]

Originally Posted by lil_Blue_Ford

Really? The company with the sticky gas pedals is going to pick on Ford? Disgusting....

Oh, it was much worse than just gas pedals. Toyota never admitted to the electronics issue, which I have seen first hand. My friend's leased Tundra would do some weird stuff, like sometime it would rev up and hit the rev limiter right as soon as you started it using the remote starter - rather bad for the motor, especially on a cold morning! It has also launched itself at what was apparently a rather large amount of throttle while his girlfriend was maneuvering it in the driveway. Luckily she was quick witted enough to throw it in neutral. Poor girl never got behind the wheel of that truck ever again, and the dealership was very firm about there not being anything wrong with the truck at all.

[85_Ranger4x4]

Originally Posted by shane96ranger

Funny they pick on Ford in this video using a FORD TOW TRUCK. You know why that tow truck wasn't a Toyota?

In all fairness they do use some nasty crap on the roads in the northeast, I have seen Rangers on here with rusted through frames from out there too.

Calcium Cloride is almost a curse word to me, they use it liberially for ice melt out there which is great because it melts just about anything.

Up until a couple years ago it was also common weight people would put in tractor tires. Guess why they quit?

This rear tractor rim was cleaned and painted in '06 and looked brand spankin' new, as of late '09 thanks to a seepy valve stem (never to the point of being wet though)

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v6...t=100_1232.jpg

[shane96ranger]

Originally Posted by 85_Ranger4x4

In all fairness they do use some nasty crap on the roads in the northeast, I have seen Rangers on here with rusted through frames from out there too.

The Rangers I've seen rusted bad also have bad rust on the body. This truck looks perfectly normal until you look at it's belly. There is an issue with their frames that they aren't owning up to.

[--weezl--]

Originally Posted by lil_Blue_Ford

Toyotas are expensive though compared to what the Ranger cost.

And the Ranger isn't completely gone, I've heard that they only discontinued it in the states but it will still be manufactured overseas.

it's gone, the global ranger is a completely different truck, afaik, it's not even based off of the north american ranger... and it's actually a larger truck, about halfway between the size of our rangers, and the f-150...

nice truck either way, available with a twin turbo diesel IIRC

[wrecking-crew]

The Calcium sh-t rusted a freshly (spray)painted bumper, a few pieces of sheet metal (around the edges), and bubbled the paint on my brushguard and roll bar on my Ranger in 2 weeks of winter driving until I parked it.

[gribly]

Calcium Chloride use on roads is probably backed by auto manufacturers so that we all have to buy new vehicles instead of being able to fix what we have.