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    ‘There’s nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes.’

    Kit cars or retrofit kits will be the only option.  Automakers see too much profit (and too much safety-benefit) to not add in ADAS. 

    Although you’re not wrong, the effect of the change in unsprung weight in a vehicle of this type and size is negligible. If we were talking about a performance vehicle, then I’d be right there with you, but for a large truck or commercial vehicle, the change in suspension dynamics wouldn’t matter.

    What DOES matter is…

    Masks.

    My only argument against it is the ‘Dubai Stoplight Drag Race’...  someday pretty soon, someone sitting in a Tesla roadster is going to SMOKE the latest Ferrari down the strip in Dubai.  And they’ll do it again and again... at that point the Ferrari driver is going to be PISSED.  Pissed enough to buy electric?  Who…

    ^THIS.

    Buckle up people... Mother Nature is done playin’.

    What a great tool, and what a great asset! Now we have to treble-down on the idea and go the extra step further that is required.

    -Camera network over all remote mountain peaks
    -Remote forestry camps within striking distance of key areas
    -Remote, automated fire-suppression systems (i.e. robots)
    -Dedicated satellite…

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    Yes. Ultimately even a simple side-by-side will generally be WAY better offroad than the Bronco. Weight and size play a HUGE role in going offroad, and even a mild side-by-side is much more capable than a Jeep or Bronco (stock).

    If I was going offroad in a big way, I’d definitely just get a Polaris RZR or something…

    I’m actually surprised they were caught so flat-footed on this. Even a casual paper-comparison would show that they had a significant price-advantage as well as a HUGE advantage in perceived interior quality. Any average person who sits inside a Telluride immediately thinks of BMW or Audi, not Ford or Toyota, as the…

    Well written! As a nuclear-power-fanboi I can say that this is one of the more level-headed articles I’ve read in a while. The cost-issue just cannot easily overcome... there are 1000 ways to make solar and wind power cheaper, but there are maybe only 100's of ways to make nuclear cheaper. In the LONG run (when…

    So I am basically you (same lifestyle, same neighborhood)... you want a Highlander. You may hate it at first (boring Toyota stereotype), but with time, you will grow to love it as I have. Towing >5000lbs, 24+MPG (or more if you get the hybrid), and more space than you can shake a stick at (the back seat is seriously…

    None shall surpass the TUMBLER for pure badassary...

    One of my biggest issues with the Bronco is that they killed one of the primary avenues of customization by using an IFS. It makes it a lot more complicated and expensive to lift the Bronco (compared with the Wrangler), and that’s what most people want to do with them anyway.

    If they can find a way to run at least…

    NO NO NO! NOT ALL LETTUCE!

    If you have access to it, Little Leaf Farms lettuce is grown hydroponically in a greenhouse here in Massachusetts and does not suffer from these sorts of contaminants! I can promise you, dear reader, that this is the BEST lettuce you’ll ever try... its truly amazing!

    Not sure if its already been said, but we’ll need WAY MORE superchargers than we have gas stations due the cycle-times. All-else being equal, there will need to be something like a 20:1 increase (from gas stations to superchargers). If filling your car takes 2 minutes and gives you a range of 500 miles, and a…

    Man, I thought the guys at Bollinger had set the new ugly-bar with the B2, and then Elon saunters on stage and says ‘hold my beer’

    Check those weight figures against the BMW X2 (on which this car is based)

    Right. My point is that the US website is wrong.