General vehicle thread

[brutal]

Had a old MAZDA 4 cylinder B2000 that kept blowing plugs after replacement. I suspect the alloy that Ford uses for its heads loves to bond to sparkplugs.

AKA Ford Ranger.

I had a B4000 4x4 extended cab with a V6. Not a bad truck but electrical gremlins and need for a bigger truck got me out of that one. It would frequently not crank after it got hot and then sat for > 5 minutes. Dealer could never figure it out so I dumped it.

[ray1970]

Yep. Most of Fords small trucks and suvs and cars have had Mazda power plants for quite a while now.

[Martinjmpr]

AKA Ford Ranger.

Depends on which year of Mazda you are talking about. The Mazda pickups from 1971 (or whenever they started selling them in the US) until (I think) 1993 were Japanese made with a Mazda engine. Ford also sold the "Courier" pickup which was just a re-badged Mazda.

Then in 1994 they switched. Mazda stopped importing trucks to the US and instead Mazda dealers in the US sold rebadged Ford Rangers as Mazdas.

I've owned one of each: A 1984 Mazda B2000 (Japanese built) and a 1996 Mazda B2300 (AKA a Ford Ranger.) I don't recall having any issues with the plugs on the 84 Mazda and I never changed them in the 96.

[Gman]

The Ford/Mazda relationship ran pretty deep from 1974 to 2015. This included the Explorer/Navajo.

[brutal]

Depends on which year of Mazda you are talking about. The Mazda pickups from 1971 (or whenever they started selling them in the US) until (I think) 1993 were Japanese made with a Mazda engine. Ford also sold the "Courier" pickup which was just a re-badged Mazda.

Then in 1994 they switched. Mazda stopped importing trucks to the US and instead Mazda dealers in the US sold rebadged Ford Rangers as Mazdas.

I've owned one of each: A 1984 Mazda B2000 (Japanese built) and a 1996 Mazda B2300 (AKA a Ford Ranger.) I don't recall having any issues with the plugs on the 84 Mazda and I never changed them in the 96.

Correct. I had a 1994 Mazda B4000 which was a Ford Ranger in Mazda sheet metal. Cheaper to buy than the Ford was and not too much difference on the trade/resale. I got out of it in 1998 when I went full size into a Dodge and made out very well on the trade.

[MrPrena]

626 -contour
Mx6 -probe
B series truck- ranger

Those millennia with Lysholm kompressor, rx7, and miatas are one of the mazda exclusive?

[Erni]

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[Martinjmpr]

Correct. I had a 1994 Mazda B4000 which was a Ford Ranger in Mazda sheet metal. Cheaper to buy than the Ford was and not too much difference on the trade/resale. I got out of it in 1998 when I went full size into a Dodge and made out very well on the trade.

I think the "chicken tax" was also a factor. Imported trucks get taxed higher than those assembled in the US.

[ray1970]

I think the "chicken tax" was also a factor. Imported trucks get taxed higher than those assembled in the US.

Yeah. Hence the partnerships between Ford/Mazda, Chrysler/Mitsubishi, and GM/Isuzu.

Nowadays the ?import? trucks are just built here in the states.

I had some douche bag trying to rag on me about a Nissan truck I used to own. I had to shut him up by showing him his Chervrolet truck was built in Mexico and my Nissan was built in Tennessee.

[brutal]

Yeah. Hence the partnerships between Ford/Mazda, Chrysler/Mitsubishi, and GM/Isuzu.

Nowadays the ?import? trucks are just built here in the states.

I had some douche bag trying to rag on me about a Nissan truck I used to own. I had to shut him up by showing him his Chervrolet truck was built in Mexico and my Nissan was built in Tennessee.

True, and while there's a healthy influx of jobs and revenue where they're built, all the profits still go to Japan, Korea, etc.

My old ass Dodge truck was assembled in Mexico, my old ass car in Germany so I'm a globalist in that sense. However, my next and last new vehicle purchase will be a RAM built in the US.