No.

I can tell you I have put a buyer in what would probably feel like a very sketchy sitiuation.

Anything this super modified is going to get a wrap for every other showing anyway. Might as well stick to white with simple graphics for the build.

I have it. The bottle opener, prybar are nice. The philips end is handy in a pinch but you can’t apply much torque (obvs.)

I have it. The bottle opener, prybar are nice. The philips end is handy in a pinch but you can’t apply much torque…

Haha. That is what you get for liking GM products.

Did you not just see a car hit a wall at a 45 degree angle and then just straighten out with no damage to the corner and no aparent slowing? Forza may have great physics when you drive on the pavement, but the second you leave it it sucks.

It’s a shitty rip-off of GTA Online Cunning Stunts DLC. But with worse physics and terrible damage simulation. 

LR does some great asymmetry:

I found a deal on a set of 4" lug centric spacers! perfect! Now we can mount those 37s with dry rot and drive 2 hours on the highway to get to the best mud hole.

Well there is our answer.

So now your trying to compare solid axles to vehicles with open diffs? Lets keep things fair. This comparison is assuming locked diffs front rear and center. Solid axle is superior for rock crawling only.

It’s a lot easier to get over stuff when you don’t have you tie rod hooked on it.

Solid axle lifts may be “easy”, but easy lifts are dangerous AF. If you are going to lift things correctly, I don’t see how new A-arms, springs, struts, and half shafts is more complicated than new trailing arms, track bars, leafs, springs, etc. 

Obviously we’re not talking about vehicles still using technology borrowed from the model-T David. In modern, built, off-roaders: why would you want a solid axle? I can give a pass to purpose build hill climb/rock crawl buggies, but even then, just go for center articulation if all you want to do is brag about how…

Yeah... “articulation”, which is really just excessive droop. I don’t see how its beneficial to drag your diff and prop shaft over every rock:

I doubt I’ll ever understand the appeal of a front solid axle. IFS is better in every way.

FINALLY! A what car should I buy question that isn’t a commuting 30-something with a family and a budget of $20K that is going to buy a Camry no matter what we tell them.

Keep Chip Foose out of it. The world needs less two-tone cars with orange pinstripes.

cool.