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Sounds like fuel starvation. A common problem in North American Fords in the 70s.
My ‘75 was bad enough that it ended a 43-year streak of Ford products in my family, sending me to Toyota and my mom to Honda.
It's strange, as it was "serviced" five or six times and never fixed until they simply took it back and gave me the whole original price.
Same era, same marque. Lessons learned.
The worst thing is that the highway in question is one of the busiest in the U.S., with bumper to bumper traffic all day long. Fortunately, the car was never hit by another vehicle, and police had it towed; we got Ford to pay the cost of that.
I had a '77 Oldsmobile Cutlass that did that several times on the I-405 freeway, which is 6 lanes of very fast-moving traffic. I bought it used, with about 20,000 miles. At the time, I thought it was a bargain. I guess that it why it was a bargain. It always scared me when it did that, and the dealer charged to repair it several times, because it was out of warranty. The dealer thought the problem was the fuel pump. They replaced the fuel pump several times ( at my cost), but it continued to switch itself off on busy freeways. I did not want to buy any more used cars after that, especially ones that were out of warranty. I changed to buying or leasing new low-cost Toyotas or Nissans with better quality control. JMO -- D.
I've had Toyotas forever (although I currently drive a "Peugeot" which is a rebadged Toyota with a Toyota engine). I started off with Ford Ka's, but had so many problems with them. I ran a Nissan briefly, but it did the thing being discussed here (stopped dead on a highway, nearly caused a crash) and I switched back to Toyota.
This is what I drive around in, although mine is a bit newer. 63 miles per gallon!
That's pretty cool!
Fuel injection must have fixed that. My last Ford was an '85 T-bird Turbo Coupe. Fantastic car and it got 28 MPG on the highway!
I loved the Turbo Coupe. Hertz had them in their California and Nevada rental fleets for three or four years and I never passed up the opportunity when traveling.
My condolences. I've had 2 toyota's (one was a company truck at my last job) and they were the 2 biggest pieces of crap to ever darken my driveway. There won't be a 3rd.
My wife and I have a 2016 Ford Fusion, which has been an excellent vehicle. However, our younger daughter has a 2016 Honda Civic, which is head and shoulders beyond the Ford. We’ve been a Ford family for decades, but it is time to move on.
I got five years and 70,000 trouble-free miles from my Toyota. Only traded it because I wanted a bit more headroom (I'm 6 feet tall) and the SR5 liftback was pretty low. Got a Honda Civic which gave me 14 years and 144,000 trouble-free miles.
I'll only ever buy Japanese now, at least while we're still driving ICEs. The Toyotas in particular just go on and on and on, mine is at 75,000 miles which is remarkable for a little city car, and still just needs routine maintenance (brakes, tires, oil changes) rather than major surgery. The Koreans come a close second - my dad drives a Kia which is similarly reliable.
The cars you most often see stranded by the side of the road, at least here, are the big Germans, the BMWs and Audis of the world. Whether it's because people buy them and then can't afford to maintain them due to expensive parts, or whether they are just less reliable, I don't know. I love that the parts for my not-a-Toyota Toyota are cheap and very easily available, because there are just so many of that type of car on the roads.
It’s about the cars. 🙄🙄🙄 Not sure why you keep trying to change the subject to what the radio stations need to do, or tuner specs or what have you. The point is the government should keep out of telling people who build cars what to do about a radio. Those are entirely separate.
The same congress that is an abject failure at doing a darned thing to keep kids safe at schools suddenly can come together to keep AM radio safe from being outdated and irrelevant. It would almost be funny if it wasn’t so sadly pathetic.
While a car is a personal decision that is often independent of facts and empirical evidence, I do look at the car magazine reviews and comparisons as well as Consumer Reports annual car ratings if I we are considering a new car.
Where I live, there are a lot of "it may be my last car, so it better be a good one" buyers. And "good" often means "it makes me feel good" and not "it is reliable".
So, despite horrible reviews, I see lots of the Land Rover family of vehicles here. I mean, when you can have a refrigerated compartment in the arm rest for you water bottle, who would not want one?
I sold my 7-year-old diesel BMW SUV a few months ago, and looked at everything in the same class. The newer Genesis, along with the Lexus, Acura and Infinity looked like "old fart" cars. The X5 BMW was too big, and the smaller ones looked too much like old "station wagons". The Mercedes models were too big or too "square shaped". No Land Rover or Land Cruiser due to the bad ratings. So, despite knowing the increased owner cost, I drove a Porsche Macan and it was everlasting love. Beautiful style, wonderful feel (even the "cheap" 4-cylender model), very nice control and nav system and they had one with my options on the lot. It went home with me.
And consumer reports showed that model very highly rated to boot! Same for Car & Driver and the others.
50% research, 50% gut feel and knowledge that I would be proud of the car.
Once again, you're confusing your own personal ideology with the actual, factual role that congress and regulatory agencies have with the automobile industry. There are many things car companies do because it's the law. This would be another one of those things. Radio and automobiles are not separate, except in your head.
Gotta disagree with you here, BigA. Audio is an entertainment option in a vehicle, period. Due to demand, they became standard, first as AM radios, then as AM/FM, and so on through the years. The government never mandated that cars have them---even when they were the only logical source of emergency information.
I have a neighbor a few doors down with two classic Porsches. He says they are reliable---but the reliability requires maintenance and maintenance is expensive.
To him, that's worthwhile.
To me, even though I'm a car guy, it's not. Reliability to me means the car will never leave me stranded and maintenance is regular, predictable and well within my budget. Porsches for him, Hondas for me.
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