WARNING! The following is long post for me. Sorta Ironman like!

My first car was a '54 Ford sedan with a 239 V8. One cold winter night an oil seal popped off the engine block. Drove about a mile the next morning before it seized up. Got towed to the junk yard when I found out how much it would cost to repair/replace the engine. Then I had a '58 Chevy Bel-Air with a 283 V8. The timing chain kept jumping. Had it fixed 3 times for that. 4th time it happened, I drove it to the junk yard.
My next vehicle was a '60 Chevy van with a straight 6. Got totaled in a head on when someone tried to pass on a hill. I got lucky on that one!

Then I bought a '75 VW Thing. Loved that car! It would go anywhere a 4X4 would go. It got totaled too when a air-headed bimbo rear-ended me at a stop light. Hit me so hard it tore the engine off it's mounts.
Next vehicle was a new '83 Ford Ranger pick up. Another totaled car! See a trend here folks?

Rolled it on a highway when I hit a patch of gravel on a sharp corner. It was like being on ball-bearings - no control at all! Went & bought another new Ranger... an '89 model. Traded that one in on a 2001 Toyota Tundra when it started falling apart. Seems like the Ranger was having something fixed every month.
What a great truck that Tundra was! The best vehicle I ever owned! My ATF! Alas, my old buga-boo returned. My wonderful truck got totaled.

Got rear ended by a drunk, air-headed bimbo. At a stop light!
My next two vehicles were the same car - 2018 Toyota 4 Runners. Why two, you ask? The first one got rear ended on the freeway only two weeks after I bought it. Yup, you guessed right, it was totaled! The 4 Runner I have now has been a good car. I'm loving it!

I've had it going on two years now. Hope, from now on, I can avoid air-headed bimbos & other hazards of the road.

So... for me it has to be Toyotas. Barring unknown road hazards, they seem to me to be more mechanically sound. I had that Tundra 17 years & only had to replace a leaking break line. I'd never get another Ford or Chevy. Dodge/Ram? No experience with 'em.
