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I spent my 20s lusting after E46 M3s, and ended up cheap-leasing an F30 (N20 engine) with sport package and 6MT thinking it would be a fun, sporty drive. Boy, was I wrong. Great engine, but every tactile interface from the steering, to the brakes/clutch, to the shifter feel was just 'dull'. I...

Every passenger vehicle sold in the U.S. today is 'refined enough' for the average American. Full-size SUVs like the Tahoe are objectively hot garbage in terms of handling/steering, yet millions of soccer moms drive them and love them. The Wrangler with its SFA is about the only exception, and...

Every passenger vehicle sold in the U.S. in the past 15 years has brake-based traction control, so that's also nothing special.

Those wheels in general are :poop:. They look like some Pep Boys $19.95 plastic hub caps, not the top-tier wheel offering. Are the wheels below not offered at all? I swear folks thought these were going to be the Squatch wheels at one time, and I think I read somewhere they are forged? Cleaning...

Brilliant business plan by Ford; sell you expensive options which break other expensive options, then sell you yet another expensive option (camera relocation kit) to fix it. Winning!

One argument against black/white painted tops is that the A/B/C pillars are still faded gray no matter what. Even if we assume that white/black mirrors and fenders will eventually be available (or just paint them yourself), the faded gray pillars will always stick out like a sore thumb. For...

IB "only mall crawlers need a gas pedal".

It definitely looks blurple under flourescent light. Most of us don't drive our vehicles through Walmart though, so that's probably a moot point. Antimatter blue OG Bronco restomod

'Scale' is all well and good, but Toyota also includes ACC standard on low-volume vehicles like the Sequoia and Mirai. So there goes that argument. Besides, I believe every mainstream automaker sources their ACC systems from OEMs like Bosch, so these systems have reached full economy of scale...

Toyota includes ACC on a base-ass Corolla, so it can't be that expensive. Ford designed the trims/packages to push as many folks into the most expensive configurations possible for the first couple years while every Bronco is sold before it's even built. When supply catches up to demand...

Isn't it the other way around? A "True rock crawler" doesn't need twin turbos to crawl along at 0.5 MPH. In fact, increased weight and fuel consumption only hurt you on a remote trail. "True rock crawlers" really only care about approach/departure angles, lockers, and gear reduction...

I've followed a bunch of new vehicle releases over the past few years. None of them made any substantial improvements between MY1 and MY2. There were some late-availability options/colors/whatever, but nothing earth-shattering (like adding the 7MT+2.7L option or some of the other pipe dreams on...

Yup. Like how the Wrangler configurator has frequently listed the automatic transfer case as being an available option with the 6MT (it isn't). Apparently Ford is actually offering the automatic transfer case+7MT combo, which hasn't been offered on any 4x4 that I know of since the FJ Cruiser.

I was thinking of a Badlands w/Lux package, which will be well north of $50k. Subtract the tax incentive, fuel costs, maintenance costs (no oil to change, fewer brake jobs, etc), and it tightens up pretty fast. The big question is depreciation; both the Bronco and R1S will have near-zero...

Yeah, charging is a factor. But I already live among mountains/lakes/rivers/etc., so I don't really need to drive far to do what I do. We usually take the wife's minivan on long road trips anyway. I hadn't thought about the size factor; the R1S is the exact same width as a sasquatch Bronco...

With Amazon's billions behind them, I doubt Rivian will just churn out turds and leave owners to fend for themselves (which Ford has actually done many times in their history). I really wanted the last manual transmission 4x4 (not the first electric one), but Ford is trying really hard to lose...

I also have a fairly early reservation for a Rivian R1S that I was keeping in my back pocket in case Ford effs up the Bronco launch. Rivian recently announced that their prices will be lower than originally stated, and it looks like the $7,500 federal tax incentive will still be around next...

If you're on the road and ascending a hill with icy patches, the automatic transfer case will allow you to ascend the hill with less drama than manually shifting between 2H and 4H with the manual transfer case. That gets old fast. The 4Auto is also nice on trails with muddy patches where you...

Those 4 holes in the pinch seam above the rock rail make me think there is a way to easily mount steps that coexist with the OEM rock rails. That's a source of aggravation for Wrangler owners; that there are so few factory or aftermarket step options if you want to keep the OEM rock rails. I'd...