And a total drivetrain swap. It’s a 2WD for chrissakes!!

Learned on a ‘72 ZAZ 966B with a flat battery, reverse shift pattern (1 is left and down, 2nd is left and up, reverse is depress the stick vertically down and then shove it right and up as I recall). Wonky clutch linkage that required some pumping. If you stalled it, you had to push the car back across the decrepit…

I flew on an IL62M back in 2004, from Novosibirsk to Moscow. Massively loud in the back due to the 4 engines hanging off the rear end, and some pretty scary rattling/squeaking on takeoff and landing. This was a particularly memorable flight because we were served salmon roe (krasnaya ikra) in economy class seating. I…

I apprecaite it. It’s particularly confusing because there’s just so many flavors of Goodyear Wrangler A/T tires: Silent Armor, ArmorTrac, and the newest Adventure series.

It’s all academic to me since I don’t have any real world experience with airing down for that sort of off-roading. My experience is limited to beach driving in Hatteras NC, where I dropped the highway-tread Grabber HTS tires on my 4Runner from 35 down to 18ish PSI. Massive difference in flotation in that case (really…

Good info. In regards to not airing down, I think you’re actually making yourself MORE vulnerable to punctures!

At the top of my list right now are General Grabber AT2s (like a cheaper KO2?), Goodyear Wrangler Adventures, Geolandar AT-S, Michelin LTX AT2. I’ve heard good things about Cooper AT3s as well. I really dig the 20mpg I can eke out of my ‘yota now, along with the very decent wet grip on pavement. I’m most worried about…

Awesome video! I’ve been preparing my ‘96 4Runner (e-locked Limited) and scheming on a trip out West next summer. Down the home stretch on truck maintenance/spares gathering, just waiting to pull the trigger on well balanced (not too loud, durable, not too big of MPG hit) A/T tires. Any advice? Keep in mind I’ll be…

Read my reply above, a stock wrangler with a stick shift and the pentastar motor would leave your Elantra for dead from a stoplight.

If a more logical unit of measure was used for fuel consumption (such as the L/100km European model), you’d see that the 18->22 mpg (“just 4 mpg!” you might exclaim) increase is actually a bigger increase in terms of actual money saved at the pump than a 8 mpg increase going from 42 mpg to 50 mpg. In the above…

You sound mad bro, then again I understand the angst caused by driving an Elantra and seeing some dude-bro cruise by in his shiny new Wrangler. Actually Wrangler fuel economy and performance has increased a fair amount with the addition of the Pentastar 3.6. It’ll always be limited by the very nature of the design…

My 1977 XS500 has a pair of BS34 CV carbs as well, very easy and servicable units IMO, and in my particular Yamaha application very easy to take off. Take the battery and air filter out, loosen the airbox and push it back into the battery space, loosen the intake manifold clamps and disconnect the throttle cable (I…

Actually, parking backwards is statistically significantly safer for everyone involved, reason being you’re not potentially reversing out into the the unknown as you back up, your vision obstructed until most of the car is out of the spot. Many large corporations encourage employees to park backwards for this very…

hell Lexus sold a few LS400s with cloth in the states, I wouldn’t try to make the argument that the Harrier isn’t the same as the RX300 because of that. I’ve seen plenty of these RHD Harriers driving around Siberia, they’re quite literally RX300s with a Toyota badge and the steering wheel on the right.

I agree, Doug I think the premise of your article is flawed as soon as you referred to the ML320 as a “crossover.” It was specifically marketed as a luxury SUV, no less, no more. I’d argue that the RX300, and X5 and MDX soon after did much more to dictate the future of SUVs morphing into softer, better handling…