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I don’t see the point in making decisions based on tire cost when the difference is minimal, you should have no trouble finding a set of 315s for $1,200 new that are better than the stock tires. I paid about $1,450 for a set of 37r17 and they are on track to get 70-80k miles. My set of mud...

I don’t *think* it’s shit, I know it’s shit. Shutting an engine off at a stop light it stupid, there is no value. Why Ford chooses to install this on certain vehicles while allowing other vehicles to actually function properly does not make sense. The point is the stop start system interferes...

Your comment doesn’t really make sense nor address your original question or my answer. Also who bought a new ride?

Word here is masochist.

Not true, the other new vehicle I’m looking at does not have this tumor attached to it.

By taking too long to restart, and sounding like you broke down. You’d have to be a satanist to purposely want something with auto-start stop, I’ve had a 2.7L F150 WT with it and a rental Malibu that suffered from it. My personal car will be all the way across the intersection at a light before...

Looking back, you first compared a Subaru and Honda to a Hummer, not I. I compared traditional AWD to the electronically controlled poor excuse for AWD on crossovers and front biased cars. There is no such thing as a 40% front and 60% rear AWD setup. Your not doing good at this, might want to...

I standby what I stated, traditional transfer case AWD is predictable, reliable, and more capable than an electronically controlled AWD like they put in these unibody crossovers. Most important above all else is tires, I’ve seen 2wd trucks do a lot off-road with tires, sand, and LS/locker. And...

Does an AMC eagle count?

I wouldn’t put myself in the situation personally, I see enough AWD crossovers stuck in situations I would expect of an open diff 2wd long bed truck. Snow is a bigger issue of having the correct tires, with the right tires a Mustang will do fine In snow.

You do realize your trying to compare a car to a truck? You could do just as much with a RWD car. You don’t sound like you have very much knowledge on the subject. AWD systems are 60% power to the front wheels and 40% to the rear; the front must have more power in order to turn. I’m not sure...

No disagreement here, 21st century power plants are few in the US. With that said good luck buying a decent steam turbine that isn’t a pile of cheap engineered to a spec pile of crap. Although I think your source is poorly written. Big difference in cleanliness of a US coal plant with scrubbers...

Please explain to me how a AWD transfer case does 40:60 F:R without blowing the hell up the first time the steer wheels are turned 20 degrees, Impress me. Quite the misnomer where their marketing says they proactively transfer power, it’s not proactive if it’s transferring power based on needs...

There’s a big difference between fake AWD and real AWD, the crap Honda and Subaru use is not a true AWD system. Take a look at the 1970s Powerwagons, last Gen 4Runner, and the H1/H2/H3 for true AWD systems. They all allow the user to lock the center differential into a 50:50 4wd while giving...

As I said in the clip you took, this isn’t a 4wd truck, I can see where auto 4wd is necessary on a long truck with a light rear end, I’ve needed it and I’ve had it and I’ve used it. But the short wheelbase Bronco? I’m not so sure.

Again as resident coal lover, there is way too much emphasis on gas turbines to deliver power. Most gas turbines aren’t inside of a nice building other than the small enclosure over them unless your in the deep north. With that said I’ve worked on an outdoor gas unit near Chicago so they can be...

I was going to say, 35s really aren’t that big, my little 37s look relatively dinky when you start getting onto trails where the average tire size is 40-42”(ie ruts).

And to that point, it is not intelligent to have less reliable capacity than total needed at peak. Relying on unreliable, or uncontrollable sources of energy is an easy way to get oneself in a mess when an irregular event occurs.

I’m not defending Jeep, because I think it is very shoddy that they build a manual trans too weak to perform its intended duty and bandaid fix it. But we’ve been doing the same with automatics for a good 20 years now.

No, it is estimated as full time max load capacity. So in the right conditions of that solar field I specified in the previous post, when all solar cells are functioning at full capacity. I am comparing the performance of both sources at their peak. Is that always the case? Obviously not...