They got the headlights mixed up

If you drop them the heavy magnet can shift and the voice coil will rub. Also an impact on the magnet will partly de-magnetize it. The frame can also bend (or crack) Generally ANY quality heavy speaker that gets dropped immediately becomes “suspect” at the very least

Would explain the Mitsus. When you want cheap you buy Mitsu. When their’s nothing else available, you buy Mitsu. When you can’t buy a good usef whatever and you need wheels and there are new Mitsus on the lot --- Beggars can’t be choosers.

So you want a 2 speed powerglide in your next car because that’s what a lot of REALLY FAST 1/4 mile cars use????? Just because it gets down the quarter real quick doesn’t make it a good road transmission!!!

At this stage of my life (almost 70) I’d still by a “stick” in a “fun car” - My truck is also a “stick” but there was a time in my life - part of which that I DID have a car with Manual tranny that an automatic would have been a GREAT improvement. When I turned 17 I broke my right wrist - and driving my Mini 850 (and…

No it’s not - and if you can’t avoid a bicycle or 2 or 3 what are you going to do with a stalled truck, or a farm tractor? No mention of oncoming traffic either. If you round a bend or crest a hill at a speed where you cannot safely stop for or maneuver around slower traffic you are driving without due care and…

Narrow tires is debatable. You don’t want steam rollers - but you don’t want bicycle tires either. You can’t ALWAYS penetrate down to good traction - narrow tires are USELESS on packed snow (or ice) where a wide tire can lay down enough of a “patch” to actually get some traction. The Ranger gets around real well on…

The CJ I drove years ago had a darn good heater - but NO INSULATION. Even with the heat on full blast your feet could freeze to the floorboards and the flimsy fabric top ALMOST stopped the cold breeze blowing through. You could cook a sausage on the heater outlet, for all the good it did.

Their are studded Hakks and studless Hakks. Both mine are studdless, since studs are not allowwed south of the nickel belt (or somewhere close - a long ways north of me, anyway)

7 winters on the Hakks on the Ranger - might be their last winter - depends how much I drive this year (only put under 5000km on it all last year)

I’ll second that. My 2wd Ranger on Hakks will go anywhere I need to go - and the AWD Sorento on Hakks means U don’t worry when the missus needs to go somewhere on a snowy day. Central Ontario Snow Belt

And they are sitting in the ditch or with 2 flat tires and bent rims from hitting the curb on the corner - - - 

I’d be keeping that in the back of my head as an option if everything went sideways, but I’d be hoping to get lucky and get a few years of casual use out of it as is. (I daily a 25 year of Ford Ranger with 376000km on it)

Like anything British you just have to get under the boot and fondle it’s nuts occaisionally to keep it happy.

Judging from my son-in-law’s experience I’m not even sure how much more it would cost to maintain than a Tahoe - - -

That asphaltum is dirty crap, but actually protects better than cheap paint and when powder-coat is inevitably damaged and moisture gets in the frame rusts away from under the powder-coat, undetected until it is too late.

That is applied for SHIPPING

Except that is EXACTLY what they used to do at the Kokomo plant until they decided it was cheaper to source them from abroad. The turkeys have come home to roost. There WAS a time when the USA was the premier supplier of electronic components.

If you can find one in the northeast or northwest that hasn’t got terminal rust-worm.

And good luck when that chain starts to rattle or the VVT gives trouble. The belt is a 2 hour? job in the driveway. The chain is closer to a 12 hour job without a well equipped shop.