rev up your engines I'll tell you the truth about the Mazda
be 3000 pickup here's the Mazda emblem but let's open a driver's door and look
inside what does it say here manufactured by Ford Motor Company for
Mazda Motor Company so in other words this Mazda be 3000 isn't reality
a Ford Ranger pickup truck check under the hood someone put one of these dumb cold
air intakes on it but it goes to a v6 engine
which is a Ford Vulcan v6 3.0 liter engine that's why it's called the B 3000
just a three liter engine not a very conventional engine its v6 got cast-iron
block cast-iron head push rods and two valves per cylinder puts out 140
horsepower which is enough to move this little pickup truck around especially
since it's got a standard transmission behind the eight ball here that's a
pretty basic pickup truck got a decent pad on it you can haul reasonable amount
of stuff with it this one has a decent spray-on liner so even though it's
getting older it's solid you can see the bolts are rusty but the bad still in
good shape now Ford and Mazda been collaborating for decades some like
these is the p3000 it's a ford ranger with the ford engine a Ford transmission
they just had deals going back and forth no basically being a Ford Ranger this is
manufactured in the United States if you were buying this and thinking you were
getting a Japanese vehicle no you work you get a Ford Ranger and they can be
decent trucks like this one that served its owners well it's 17 years old and
truth be told on this one the differential here starting to wear out
it's starting to growl it's just typical when they get that kind of mileage on
them and the owners probably gonna just drive it until the drops it might still
go quite some time before it finally goes out now you could have a full
differential rebuild done which might run you anywhere between eight and nine
hundred dollars if you want to fix it or if you're more of a gambling man or have
luck in junkyards I had a customer a couple years ago buy a used rear end
whole thing for 250 bucks from a junkyard and the truck came out of he
said at 15,000 miles will smashed it and it worked perfectly fine even though it
says miles it's a Ford product so getting parts there's a lot of them out
there and you got a lot of choices of what you can do now as a used vehicle
these things can be decent you can get them cheap enough and it can last a
while but when they were brand new really they weren't that much of a deal
to give you an example the list price of this vehicle was sixteen thousand five
hundred dollars when it was new and at that same time 2003
you're gonna picked up a comparable Toyota Tacoma for about eight hundred
dollars less and yes the Toyota Tacoma is a much better overall truck in terms
of longevity needing less repairs little bit higher technology but just try
finding a good used Toyota Tacoma cheap that's not an easy thing to do if you
only have a few grand to spend getting one of these use might be a better idea
because you can find them it's gonna cost a lot less than a comparable to
koma that draw these are pretty basic vehicles v6 cast iron block cast iron
head push rod simple technology they're not bad vehicles and if you can get one
for a cheap enough price use it can be a great secondary truck for running around
with after all small pickup truck is a small pickup truck they all look the
same they look like small pickup trucks and you can see 17 years later bodies
still in excellent shape even a fancy rims that it originally came with are
still looking pretty good for all that age of course having a v6 engine even
though it's a standard transmission these aren't gas misers this particular
one gets about 17 in the city and 21 on a highway you don't get great gas
mileage of pickup trucks specially when they're a little bit old but that's not
what you buy pickup trucks for you buying the haul stops got a decent sized
bed with a standard transmission it's pretty easy to all reasonably heavy
loads and with that v6 engine and a standard transmission you can tow four
thousand pounds so it's got towing capability following all it's a decent
little pickup truck especially if you find a good one used at a decent price
realize it's not a Mazda it's a Ford it's made by Ford in the United States
so if you are looking at one of these Mazdas and a Ford Ranger pickup truck
realize it's the same thing you could buy either one you'd be getting the same
vehicle and I got a myth this one in red it's a sharp-looking a little pickup
truck you know it's 17 years old so now you know the truth about a Mazda be 3000
pickup truck oh it's really a Ford Ranger you're not a bad little pickup
truck if you can find one that isn't all worn out yet, so if you never want to
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