You are correct that the Humvee was originally designed to be a relatively lightweight jeep replacement. Hence the military designation: High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV).

CJ Jeeps and most HMMWVs also had zero protection. The problem is once you start asking the vehicle to be armored, you end up with the 14,000lb Oshkosh L-ATV which doesn’t fit in a Chinook and can’t be transported at all by the Blackhawk, and it only carries 4.

So, yes. The goal of this is pure mobility at the cost of…

The problem is, these hats merely suggest “social distancing.” What cautious citizens need is a bush axe, to enforce  “social distancing.”

I like how we’re glossing over the fact that this thing was built in 11 goddamn weeks. Imagine building a project car in 2 1/2 months, let alone a house sized behemoth.

This is all just an elaborate illustration of Cunningham’s Law: “the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.”

You really gotta add women at the end, like just another commodity?

Might be coincidence that Bubba got that garage. But that is a straight up fucking noose. All you noose truthers out there can eat shit.

Counterpoint: It’s fortunate that Wallace was assigned to this garage, otherwise it would probably have sat there for another year, at least. What’s unfortunate is that other people don’t understand the problem here.

About half of medium-duty (actual medium duty, not marketing “super duty”) box trucks on the road plus pretty much every bus has a cabover design like this. Do we just not care about driver safety for commercial vehicles, or is there some way of making cabover vehicles safe that manufacturers just aren’t using for…

To be fair to dodge how many problems can their 2 cars have after 13+ years in production?  I figure those should be worked out by now

You fixed the front end!! :D

The SsangYong Rodius

FWIW, 2 mpg, when you’re talking about the bump between 10 and 12 mpg, is a 20% bump in fuel mileage. And 20% fuel savings.

as it takes on the Jeep Wrangler for dominance among the off-roading parking on curbs at the mall and doing 95 on off-road tires crowd.

Yeah, that’s the problem with sculpted back seats. In the good ol’ days, when it was just a bench, you were golden.

Haha. Beware the rabbit hole, you’ll be bidding on crates of helicopter parts in no time.

As a recent discoverer of the Dresden files, I like “vampire & thrall”.

After the officers were punished for Garners death in NY, the PBA called for an official slowdown in work to show solidarity for the “punished” officer. The city showed a measurable drop in arrests in tickets, citations, and arrests in the weeks that followed. The exception being activities that actually endangered…

They’re big and bad enough to kill unarmed black men and women for the flimsiest of excuses, but they can’t take the heat of the rightful criticism they’re getting for those unwarranted deaths? Too bad, so sad. We’re not going to absolve them of this shit. 

That sentence, much like the F1 season, is abridged. Or Google translated from German. <shoulder shrug emoji>