Favorite and least favorite vehicle you’ve owned

Illustrious Potentate

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Favorite is a tossup between an 88 Toyota Pickup and a 94 Jeep Cherokee. Just the toughness and reliability couldn’t be beat. If I had to choose I’d probably pick the Jeep because it had more creature comforts and a lot more power. The Toyota had 350k miles on it when it got totaled after I sold it to a buddy. The Jeep had over 400k on it when I sold it to another buddy 8 years ago and he still drives it to work everyday. I would have drove either to California and back with no concern of them leaving me stranded, and they were both just fun to drive. They could handle my abuse in stride and never bitch about it.

Least favorite was an 89 F-150. It was a beautiful truck that had the potential to be nice. When I got it, it had been sitting for a few years after the original owner died and I just never could get all the kinks worked out. It was always something, never anything major, would just nickel and dime you to death. I gave it to my brother, he proceeded to make it much worse by lifting it, he sold it to some poor sap and I doubt it’s still on the road
 
Favorite: 1967 Ocean Blue Chevy Malibu.

Least: 2000 Silver Dodge Caravan. Ugh.
 
Favorite: 1984 F150 stepside. Redid every single component on it over the years I had it
Least: 2011 Honda Pilot

Honda is shit, tried em twice and never again.
 
Only ever had two.

2004 Silverado
2020 Silverado

Both have been great to me. So far. The 2004 just had little things here and there to fix. But still ran great.
 
If gas was cheap, two other vehicles that I loved that I had was an 87 Dodge Ram with a 440 and my current 84 F-250 with a 460. I’d hook bumpers with any non diesel out there with either and easily win. Both are/were fun to drive. I had the Dodge when I was a teenager and it got 8 MPGs and has was over 4 dollars a gallon. I just couldn’t afford to drive it much, so I sold it.

My grandpa bought the F-250 new and I got it when he decided he wanted an automatic with AC. It’s a good running truck, but those same 8 MPGs and it will only run clean on premium and has a pretty small tank, you can literally see the gas hand going down, and it’s cold natured. It takes like 30 minutes of revving it up on a cold morning to get it ready to hit the road. Good truck, but I couldn’t have it as a daily driver. I use it when I need to pull something heavy or bring my great uncle firewood
 
I can't say I've had a vehicle I hated. I work them all pretty hard and can't say I've ever had a major engine or transmission problem until long after they were paid off. Not a one has owed me a dime. It's either regular maintenance like replacing breaks or exhaust and windshield wipers breaking. I hate wiper blades. Make a better wiper assembly and retire on the royalties. And then stupid shit breaking the auto windows not working. Stereo's dying. Nobs and switches breaking.

My favorite is my current truck, a 2011 Toyota Tundra. I'm over 140K and it's still a beast.
 
Hated 1992 Ford
Ran forever/had no power
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Loved 1977 Pontiac
Had plenty of power

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Illustrious Potentate said:
If gas was cheap, two other vehicles that I loved that I had was an 87 Dodge Ram with a 440 and my current 84 F-250 with a 460. I’d hook bumpers with any non diesel out there with either and easily win. Both are/were fun to drive. I had the Dodge when I was a teenager and it got 8 MPGs and has was over 4 dollars a gallon. I just couldn’t afford to drive it much, so I sold it.

My grandpa bought the F-250 new and I got it when he decided he wanted an automatic with AC. It’s a good running truck, but those same 8 MPGs and it will only run clean on premium and has a pretty small tank, you can literally see the gas hand going down, and it’s cold natured. It takes like 30 minutes of revving it up on a cold morning to get it ready to hit the road. Good truck, but I couldn’t have it as a daily driver. I use it when I need to pull something heavy or bring my great uncle firewood
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The gas mileage on my toyota is terrible. 14/15 at best. 8 - 10 mpg if I'm towing anything.
 
dikowt dowg said:
The gas mileage on my toyota is terrible. 14/15 at best. 8 - 10 mpg if I'm towing anything.
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My current daily driver(a 2016 F-150) gets right at 20, which is by far the best of any full sized truck I’ve had. That Jeep from the OP got around 18, which wasn’t bad for that badass 4.0 straight 6 that Chrysler should have their asses kicked for discontinuing. I never really checked the mileage on that Toyota, but it was pretty good. It would go a long ways between fillups anyways and didn’t have a huge tank
 
Favorite: 1972 Chevy Nova

Least: 1994 Chevy S10
 
huskers1217 said:
fav: 1970 chevy malibu

least: Daewoo - fuck that piece of shit


fun fact: I once owned an 1989 ford tempo AWD. it was both close to fav and least. fucking lemon piece of shit...but damn it was fun to drive in the snow.
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You’re the only person I’ve heard of having a Daewoo
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
My current daily driver(a 2016 F-150) gets right at 20, which is by far the best of any full sized truck I’ve had. That Jeep from the OP got around 18, which wasn’t bad for that badass 4.0 straight 6 that Chrysler should have their asses kicked for discontinuing. I never really checked the mileage on that Toyota, but it was pretty good. It would go a long ways between fillups anyways and didn’t have a huge tank
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Mine has a 5.7 with a tow package and it will run circles around any stock truck out there. I added a leaf spring to the rear cause I was hauling heaving loads for a while. Mountain hills didn't stand a chance. I worked the left lane and pushed people uphill. It came stock with two radiators which I credit to the engine staying strong all of these years. It's still tight and I can smoke a set of tires off of it if I want. It shows no signs of dying. It acts like it will outlive me.

I test drove another one a few years back and it was shit compared to mine. Toyota probably went for better gas mileage was my guess, plus they did away with the second radiator. If you tow, the engine and tranny need the extra cooling. So as far as I was concerned, they quit making real work trucks in favor of a lifted yuppie machine.
 
MrFlyingV said:
Favorite: 1967 Ocean Blue Chevy Malibu.

Least: 2000 Silver Dodge Caravan. Ugh.
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Ooops, got this wrong. Trying to post and work at same time. The Dodge was a 1989. A piece of junk. The 2000 I was referring to was my dad's 2000 Dodge V6 Interpred. A certified lemon. Got it when my father died n 2001.
 
Least favourite - 1991 Thunderbird Super Coupe. bought as a project car and all it ever did was eat head gaskets. A black hole for $$.

If only it was as satisfying as my 1995 SHO which aside from eating it's cats one time never let me down and I had it 20 years.


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Favourite - 2012 E63 AMG. My beloved Panzerwagon.

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The best, and one that got me buying only Toyotas, is the wife's sequoia 2007. It's got 265k miles, and I still drive it 3.5 hours, and up the mountains in Utah, with zero concerns of breaking down. Still has the original ac compressor. Recently put a new front end in it, and glad I did. Only big number repair ever, at 3800. I would drive it across country tomorrow no problem.

Worst ever, was 1994 Jeep Cherokee. Gutless piece of shit, unreliable, ac would not stay operational. Had it for about 6 months and traded that shit in

My fav is still my 78 f250 crew cab.
 
Fave is a toss up between my first car, which was a '70 Dodge Dart, and my third, which was a '89 5-speed Dakota.

Least is even tougher to call, because I have driven so many pieces of absolute crap in my lifetime. To be fair to many of those cars, they were mostly all in bad shape when they came my way, so it might be more a case of bad previous owners than bad manufacturers. But there was one little Ford Escort that gave me so many problems. Was a mid-80's model, when Detroit was putting out horrible product. Could not keep it running and eventually had it towed out of my life.
 
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