Most manufacturers will deny problems until their is enough pressure and or lawsuits. Like GM buying back 15 year old suburban/blazers. Toyota is like apple, great marketing and hiding of problems, mostly denial. Dodges have more repairs done under warranty then ford/Chevy. Nissans are average. Its all about driving what you like and having pride in your ride.

I don't know about ford but gm dumped all the field engineers that knew anything about 13 years ago in exchange for college grads that know jack shit. So engineers are useless. This goes back to the part replacers VS technicians thread.