There is no number given to any form of offroad ability in his scores for those vehicles. He is comparing how the Wrangler, 4runner, and raptor behave on the street.
Maybe not a deal breaker, but is Ford going to pump fake engine noise through the speakers? Can it be turned off on other Ford products? You would think they learned enough people complain about that but I don't know..
My problem with a lot of the YouTube car review guys is they simply don't understand 4x4 much. To often I hear complaints that the truck or SUV doesn't handle like a sporty car and they almost never take them off the pavement. Doug demuro uses the same grading categories on a Wrangler that...
You guys saying the American market wouldn't accept it with that week engine.... Remember the samurai outsold the Wrangler by a lot when it was first released here. And they did it with a 60hp 4 banger. If it was priced cheap, like under 20k, it would fly off the lots. I'd be driving one...
I really really want a manual, but it's not a deal breaker. An official announcement of offering a manual will get me way more excited than I am now though.
The deal breaker for me is how serious they are taking the competition in the Wrangler. I expect a lot more than the typical fx4...
Naw... I would keep Jeep on the path they are going. You say 10 percent of the market, but I say Jeeps similar to the defender pics I posted above are part of the reason the Wrangler sells 1/4 million units every year. Jeep has done a great job of creating a platform that people can easily...
I love the Mahindra. Adore it! It's just a tad too much money vs. how simple it is. Its easy to option one will into the 20k plus price range. It's really easy to make street legal here in az though. If the bronco ends up really expensive, I may just get the roxxor instead.
Take a look at these old defender pictures.
Above is the reason I consider the new defender a fail. It may have the capability to get to places, but it has the image of a business man who thinks his trip to lake Tahoe is an "adventure" as he parks his new defender in front of a cabin he...
I was getting my bronco news from a few YouTube guys .... They all kept mentioning this site and I quickly learned I would get the news first coming here. I haven't googled for the bronco in months. I also can't imagine the defender getting more interest that the bronco anywhere, at least not...
As a Suzuki samurai guy, I'm very familiar with small displacement engines (1.3 liter with under 60hp stock). For offroad, you can easily overcome this with proper gearing. I actually dropped a turbo into my Sammi and I can now go the speed limit almost everywhere.
I look at the power...
The "death rate" is very significantly skewed. They are only testing the high risk and severe cases. How many are in their home with a cough and fever and not getting tested? Nobody knows. I'd bet that if we had a way to really test everyone in the country, we'd find the rate is a fraction...