Originally posted by DarkFox1
its not feasible that our vehicles could be lemons. I dont remember a time where my truck was ever faster than 10.. I checked my 0-60 for the 1st time back in 98 down at my highschool.. it was 10.. almost 11 then. the trucks always been that fast.
I know I'm not halucinating these times, I'm just beginning to wonder if some of yall are 
it could be driver error, I mean I may be just a really bad driver... aside from that its not feasilbe that a vehicle can simply be a "lemon" I've never heard of a vehicle just being prone to illness.
it is my understanding, according to ford, and the peer pressure I receive from my friends/family.. that everything my truck does is normal, and that it is in top running condition. The only reason they give for the slow 0-60 is "you bought an suv what do you expect" "you're asking too much of it" and "its a ford, get used to it" which I've found myself saying recently because of it.. it makes my dad mad cos he tihnks I'm being "ungrateful" my parents simplyt say "be glad you aren't walking or bumming rides off your friends"
90% of the people I talk to (and you know I tal kto everyone I know about this) says that 12 sec. 0-60 is acceptable for an suv, they tihnk even 20 seconds would be expected from such a vehicle. so I dont know what to think anymore except that its just the way it is and cannot be rectified.
I did not time the 99X I test drove's 0-60.. the only trhing I really noted being unusually improved was the transmission.. and its my understanding that there were signifigant changes made in the 4R70W between 97 and 99.. although I'm not sure what. the 99X seemed as fast as my mounty.. if not a bit faster because of the transmission.
It's easily possible that you have lemons, in another post one of my friends parents have replaced their engine in their Lexus LS430, a new trans, various electric gremlins ect., and Lexus is basically the best vehicle you can get, yet he got a lemon and so did you.
I know I'm not hallucinating cause my times are from the track and on g-tec. You can't beat a geo, yet I can beat an R/T at the track and a lot of other cars.
Put it this way your 5.0 Mounty with 3.73 gears is slower than my 94' ohv V6 Explorer with stereo equipment and 3.27 gears, how do you explain that?
And who ever is giving you information on suv is a dumbass plain and simple. I can't think of any suv right now that is 12 seconds to 60 except for Hummer H1's. Even an Xterra and the older Pathfinder were faster than that and they were about the slowest suvs you could buy. Ummm. New Explorers and Mountys run 0-60 in the seven second rang and quarters in the high 15's. Escalades and tahoes run about the same. Ect ect.
Whoever you talked to knows nothing about suvs or they wouldn't have said that.
And it's not driver error b/c in an auto vehicle you just floor it, thats it, how could someone mess up on that? We also used to have an 97' 5.0 Mounty and it ran 0-60 in about 8.4 seconds and through the quarter at 16.4***, explain that please?
