Unless they are IDF Pereh missile carriers, that use the Patton hull upgraded with a missile turret that still resembles the original tank. Then it is up to 25km of missile slinging range with a MBT protection level.

The VW and Ford shared the CHT/AE engine. It is the same engine that went into the VW Gol and the Ford Escort in Brasil, as well as VW Apolo and Ford Verona (same car badge engineered). The CHT engine was developed from a Renault designed engine (the Sierra engine used on the Renault 12 and Ford Corcel), but enlarged.

Just saying that the “most tools are self-powered now” is not accurate. Would a farmer use a modern wrangler? Most likely not, even if it retained its PTOs. It is too expensive for farm work and does not have a truck bed. But the working farm jeep concept is not flawed in itself.

MB (and most German public services) disagrees with you:

“and the Navy is getting a $5.4 billion procurement for 46 F-35As”

He should try a Brazilian Ka XR, a tiny car with a 1.6 liter engine. The engine is so oversized for the Ka that you could only remove it from below (no engine hoist for the XR)

“For the cost of a single carrier, he calculates, a rival can deploy 1,227 anti-carrier missiles”

Now optional on the Jeep wrangler:

Pope Francis is not a porsche guy (Pope Benedict XVI may be)... Perhaps a 500 Abarth would be closer to his tastes...

Try the Renault Duster Oroch or the Fiat Toro. Both are utes based on SUVs that have origins in small european hachbacks (500L => Renegade => Toro and Dacia Sandero => Duster => duster oroch respectively). If you want 2 doors there is the Fiat Strada, Chevrolet Montana and VW Saveiro available in some countries.

Like most of what you dream of, the chevette pick-up (ute) existed in Brazil.

I see your swapped trabbie and raise you a VW Saveiro swapped with a 150cc motorcycle engine:

Probably some sort of IED jammer like US Secret Service used in Iraq

Who needs expansion joints?? </irony>

Now Jeep will have to recall all wranglers to retrofit them with Mansfield bars... Another blow to FCA...

Nah, Hyneman would tally it as “Plausible”.

Yet oceanic exploration is heavily dependent on space tech, NOAA currently has 8 satellites (as well as managing one DoD weather sat) providing raw data that can be used in several environment studies, including ocean studies. GPS so important to ship navigation as well as geolocating points of interest where no…

And that’s the whole point of the G65. To have more cylinders than any other truck out there

Is there a rule for test mules to be tested in or near national parks? When I visited Mount Rushmore there were some test vehicles disguised in the parking lot.

Want one of those too... Complete with RC A-10...

Want one of those too... Complete with RC A-10...