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The i-VTM4 system is one of the better on demand AWD systems, but no one is cross-shopping this with any actual off road vehicles (at least not if they are planning to go off-road)

Because it’s basically a Pilot with worse aero.  Higher ride height and shorter overall length are both factors that hurt on the highway.

It sits an inch higher off the ground, and comes with larger wheels as standard (wider tires too). That extra ground clearance isn’t good for fuel economy.

Anyone I know who has owned a sport trac has absolutely loved it and has put an unreal amount of miles on it. I too have a fascination with these things. I’m not sure it is a nearly 15k fascination though.

He added that intake tract as a meager attempt to fool people, it’s decorative. In fact, you can see in the picture where the actual intake is (short aluminum tube that he stuck inside the black PVC tube running to the back of the supercharger). There’s nothing underneath the supercharger platform. Also, here’s…

Don’t worry, he didn’t actually do anything to the engine besides disconnect the A/C compressor.

Is nobody going to comment that this car is clearly NOT supercharged? It’s decorative, and apparently the car also now no longer has A/C as the A/C pulley has been re-purposed to “drive” the fake supercharger.

The K24 is a good engine, it’s just a bit underwhelming for a vehicle of that size.

“Gas pig of an engine(...)“

And Subaru ran the 4EAT through 2007. 

Even still.

It’s funny you say that. The Corolla had a 4-speed until, what, 2012? 

Ever since these came out I’ve been a fan. But they hang on to resale value like a octopus on a diver’s face. There must be a sub group fandom out there that keeps the prices abnormally high? If it were $4,000 I’d be more inclined to NP it but $6,200 is CP all the way.

160hp was a strike against the Element but 108hp wasn’t with the scion?

12004 Honda Element EX-AWD for $6,200.

Brake engineer here:

Read the paperwork bro, you gave Mark Zuckerberg the right of prima nocta to all your children.

It’s on a piece of paper that means its the right thing.

No.

My mom had an 02 Envoy she kept until 2010, at which point everything fell apart and she traded it for a new Forester. Here biggest complaint about the forester, gutless engine.