As far as trucks, I go against the trend and have like Dodge for newer pickups. Old trucks, I'm a Chevy fan all the way. My first Dodge was a 4wd 2500 with the 5.7 hemi, it has nearly 190k miles on it when I sold it. The dash completely fell apart early on, but the only things replaced were ball joints, wheel bearings, AC compressor, and power steering pump.
My current Dodge is my 08 4wd 2500 with the 6.7 and a 6 speed manual. It's still low miles(80k,) but the only thing that prematurely failed IMO was the AC compressor(was shot at 50k.) All of the emissions components may or may not have "fallen off." I did have to replace the stock clutch and dual-mass flywheel with a Southbend single disk and solid flywheel. I blame the extra power on failure of the stock unit...I was hauling a freshly cut 4' redwood log and the dual-mass flywheel failed, but the clutch had been slipping ever since the added power.
Aside from a couple of older Rangers, that were solid little pickups, my only Ford experience was with a '15 Focus...I called it a certain 4 letter expletive with a "us" added at the end. It should've been a great commuter car, but it spent more time at the shop for recall/warranty work than it did driving.
Fwd doesn't really work up here for 4 months of the year, and I was absolutely fed up with that POS, so I traded it in on a '18 Tacoma. The Toyota has been a great little pickup, I've already got 65k on it...while still not that many miles, I've done nothing other than oil changes. It's the 4wd, v6, 6 speed manual, rear locker model. It kills it in the snow...I could get by with only having my 2500 in the winter, but the long-bed diesel trucks struggle bad enough in the snow that I'd have to plow my driveway and would have trouble in some of the bad storms. It's just too heavy to overcome some of the steep hills when they have deeper snow.
I should post pictures of the underside of my 2500 later, still has the factory paint on the frame, axles, etc. I'm so glad that salt really doesn't get used here...I think they might have some mixed in that they use on some of the highways, but mostly they just lay cinders down on the state highway. The county road dept just uses sand on everything. My only complaint, is that when we do get nice winter weather, the roads will be covered in too much sand for spirited riding on the street bike.
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