Aactually this is not true. I've worked for mercedes for over 25 years. Some of the first cars they had show up with. Batteries in the back originally had them.in the front. They were moved in later cars with newer engines and electronics and guess what showed up in place of where the battery used to be? Also they…

So welcome to like 10 years ago.

Actually it's more to make room for all the module boxes in the engine bay. Lots of them also put the battery under the seat and little back up batteries behind the dash. But they also keep them under hood like other cars.

This might be a european car thing....

I bet it takes someone who knows where the battery is like 15 minutes or less.

When you shut off these cars the high voltage battery gets decoupled. Yes these cars do have a DC/DC converter. It really doesnt change much whether you keep those electronics in the battery pack or seperate. The same issue can happen. Having them seperate makes them more servicable. Anyway you look at it you will…

Not to mention crashing a rally car forced him out of F1.

Uhm, those are both F1 drivers. In fact Kubica had to leave F1 due to crashing a rally car.

Was anyone ever worried about their wiper breaking whether they left them up or not? Has anyone ever questioned if the wipers will break if you left them up or down?

It’s a replica wheel. A quick google search found it here:

Most of the time it doesnt work. The Bronco works because they actual lo y made a truck that is a Bronco in todays world. It does not work when it’s just some new car with a seemingly random revival of a name that has no resemblance to the old car.

There are also cars that have even more changes that dont change their generation. So are we talking update facelift generation or chassis generation. Big difference in how you refer to a generation.

Because they were probably built on the same chassis platform and therefore are the same generation. Body panels and looks don’t matter.

Even though they are clearly built on the same chassis platform? SR,ZB and VX platforms. Most cars have multiple versions built on a chassis platform. Usually called facelifts.

Honestly they look more similar to each other them most cars do after a facelift.

So uhm, sometimes cars have big mid year changes that the aftermarket has to deal with as you mention. That doesnt make them 2 different generations.

Trying a little too hard to be cool.

Uhm... are you sure?

Sometimes car manufacturers even change from inline engines to V b lo lock engines. But this doesnt change the generation or better yet the chassis platform the car is built on. Update version maybe but it doesn't change its platform or chassis designation.

Depends on if you consider update changes a generation (update generation) or if you go by chassis designation.