No cars newrer to 1980 are best. I prefer 50 to 70 cars myself. Car must have a frame seperate from body to be real good. No Unibody. U speak toyota and ford focus......neither are cars as I see them. In my day cars weighed 5,600 lb and went 135 mph off the showroom floor. STOCK. Now can yer focus do that? can U drive it into the dump truck and walk off? U not talking cars, U talking recyclable trash. tell me when U find a real car
Toyota! I've had three. My first car was a corolla and I ran it to 250,000 miles and it was still going strong when I sold it. I ran that poor thing without oil a time or so (oops, dumb teenager) and even put it through a creek-twice. Water up to the windows and no damage at all. My second car was a Camry and it was great. It was totaled in a wreck but it did exactly like it was supposed to do- damage to the car and not to the occupants and saved my life! Now, I have a 4-Runner and it's great too. None of my Toyota cars have ever left me stranded or broken down.
My brother has only had Fords (wanting to stay American) and he's had so many different ones now after blown motors, and other crazy problems I can't even count. He's still trying to stay American but he does admit a Toyota is a way better car.
Go Toyota, you won't regret it!
Figure on the Toyota being good (w/ 1 major repair) to 200k, and the ford being good to about 150k (w/ 1 major repair) -- and the major repair on the ford will be cheaper to fix.