North east US
Every snow storm you’ll see pickups in the shoulder with a Subaru going around them.
Now most have gray haired lesbians driving them but they package that Subaru has figured out over the last 20 years is very hard to beat cost or capability wise.
That's because pickup trucks are actually terrible in the snow. You have no weight over your drive wheels. I did the same thing when I drove a Toyota Yaris lmao.
You can get an AWD Mazda that's just as capable in shitty weather as a Subaru but will last longer and have more trouble free miles.
Dwindling my ass... Peaked in the 90's my ass...
You clearly don't work with vehicles day in and day out. In the 90s we had just about the perfect balance of annoying mechanical systems replaced with electrical systems that were very simple to work on and easy to diag (FI vs Carbs for example). The electronics were very simple. Most makes in the 90s were either reliable enough or easy/cheap to fix. We didn't have tons of unnecessary bullshit in the vehicles. Build quality was fairly good for most makes.
Yeah they peaked in the 90s. The vast majority of modern cars suck to work on, are harder to diag for issues because there's so many electrical systems all interconnected. The build quality is questionable to poor from most makes. The quality of the parts has slid downhill massively across all manufacturers. Plastic everywhere. Thinner and thinner sheet metal. Nickel and dimming for features that should be standard.
AND THE MASSIVE FUCKING SCREENS IN EVERYTHING.
Also on your list is the worst selling truck in the nation. While I don't deny the honda 3.5 v6 is a solid engine. It would make sense that you rarely see them because there are very few of them on the Road, Sans the Dodge cam lifter re align ment with the cylinder deactivation chewing cams the Big 3 all make solid Trucks and have for decades.
Except they don't. GM even admits they don't design a transmission for their trucks to last past 100-120k miles. And they don't in my experience. I see them replaced every day. Lifter failures left and right. 6.2L has had failure after failure since it came out. Headlight issues. Module issues. Issues that GM can't even solve so your truck sits on the lot for 6 months with no solution.
Ford I see less of but from what I'm told isn't any better. Just different issues. I know we have replaced several headlights on resale F-150s all within 2-3 years old for water intrusion and the headlights all cost over $1000. That's absurd.
Get the fuck outa here with that bullshit
There is a special place in hell for people that work in Dealer service departments.
Special place in hell lmao. Yeah man everyone that turns wrenches doing your recall campaigns and dealing with the general retardation of Joe Blow Moron deserves to go to hell.
As much as people bitch about dealerships I can say that out of the 4 around me I have bought vehicles from I have never had an issue. And I know that my employer doesn't go around fucking people either.
You have poor quality techs (which is a problem regardless of where you go, and the biggest retardation I've seen comes from small garages), you have poor service writers, and you have the OEM that sets the standards and policies that dealership units have to follow. If you get fucked over it's because you're either
A. Ignorant
B. The manufacture is cunty (and the big 3 all are)
C. You dealt with a shitty employee or sales manager, in which case, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Bitch hard and loud enough and it's amazing what a dealer will bend over backwards to fix.
If you don't work in automotive you don't know shit as far as I'm concerned. I've seen and heard so much shit over the years from people who don't work in this industry and think they know jack when the reality is they don't know their asshole from their elbow.
