I don’t understand the appeal of this. All this does is encourage similar behaviour in the real world. 

Um... uh... do you live in a place that gets winter? I do. We get five months of real winter (snow, ice, slush, cold... the full meal deal). Swapping out the stock all-season Geolanders on my Crosstrek for a set of Nitto SN3 winter tires, every year, turns my capable CUV into an unstoppable goat.

So, looking at a screen cap and zooming it in a bit, I think the tires are fairly similar. The Ford doesn’t seem to have any extra knobs, overly deep treads, or perpendicular bars... all of which would be great on loose surfaces.

It’s a great truck for everyone who thinks they need a truck but doesn’t have a 27' trailer, or a large boat. You can put a weekend’s worth of backyard project or building materials in it. You can get your bikes, kayaks, snowshoes or whatever in it.

Almost everyone would disagree with you about the Ridgeline. It’s the truck that most people who think they need a truck, actually need. It’s got 5000lbs towing; the cabin of a Honda Accord; a decent bed with locking, waterproof underbed storage. With the gate down and some straps you can haul plywood, bikes, etc...…

Settle down thin skin. I wasn’t talking about you.

ooh. Nice catch. I forgot about that one. Such a pretty car.

Alternatives to the free app that’s installed on every device we all, already have: An $800(CAD) specialty watch.

When you’re third to the party, you’re late.

Exactly. You do it every day. You climb into your car, or on a motorcycle, or a bike, or step into a bus or train. You accept that there is a small chance that you could be injured or killed while being conveyed to your destination. You tacitly accept that you’re contributing to global pollution and climate change.…

See my response to Stonz 4. We adapted by trading death, chaos, and pollution for speed, convenience, and cost. We’ll adapt again. That “three times” figure will drop to a level we can live with.

If we had the safety standards, vehicle technology, and traffic and highway systems of even the 1950s and the number of cars on the road we have today, we’d have hundreds of thousands of vehicle deaths per year. If we had the emissions controls of the 1960s today, we’d have totally unbreathable air.

Society adapted by implementing new safety technologies, new pollution control measures, new traffic systems. If the industry had stayed stagnant in terms of development, we’d have totally unbreathable air and bodies in the streets.

Every technological advancement brings challenges. When the first ICE vehicles arrived there wasn’t an efficient fuel distribution system, people hated the noise and pollution, the cars scared the ubiquitous horses, people got hit more often than they did by those horses, people in cars were injured and killed far…

It’s more accurate.

*sigh

The Fj40 with its unkillable diesel will.

“Fool me once... shame on... shame on you. Fool me - you can’t get fooled again.” - Dubya

Please have this conversation with my wife. She is seemingly incapable of lifting the parking brake handle. I have no idea why.