Its the lights, they use too much power. Civilian cars don't even use turnsignals sonless.strain on the alternator

You drive a jeep Panda, don't you?

That is not a semitruck

Except.the truck is optimised for low speed on its rute, not the EPA test cycle for passenger cars. They don't operate too far away from their base so no need for highway travel. So theoretical wltp or whatever mileage is not relevant and in service mileage may be very well different

Tell.you what, even without the lawyer I would sign of on a plan or ecu calibration for that vehicle

Ladder frame, solid axels, transfer case, nuff said about off road ability

That’s reasonable. Unlike the half of the story in the article

It's one side of the story.....And why does it matter they were black?

Euro Ncap is an influencer, an NGO and not a.standard maker or government agency like the nhtsa. It's more.like the iihs if anithing. Try talking about stuff you research before

No, the suspension drive is just repelled instead of attracted by the ground, not all.matter between it and the ground

The road car lumps were rubish as boat engines apparently

Newsflash, you can't make aftermarket headlights for a Fiesta without paying licence fee to Ford for a design. Or a fender....

Only if you sell only in china

Automotive engineer here, magnesium is stored as mgAl5 alloy, that’s not a problem . The problem I hear is that 99%of steering wheels are.made.of the stuff. And there is no easy substitute for it without redesigning the thing and it's tooling

PSsIve safety engineer and former restraints system engineer here, we get this question alot. Answer is simple and logical: if nonmajor injuries like worse than broken ribs on an older person, the airbag ecu calibration was spot on. Deployment of airbags would have not given more protection but on the contrary. Looks…

No, it is not. There is combustion with anlot of gasses other than nitroge. Some curtain aribags are.powered by helium argin mix

MUrica, land of the free, home of the biggest number of convicts per capita... 

CCompared to the Us, many Latin American countries have mandatory seatbelt laws ...

Turkey and it's people are Middle Eastern. There is no discussion on this

The Dacia Sandero 1.0 sce is also 65 bhp. And your article calls the MPI Skoda an Atkinson cycle engine than a Miller, wich is it? Oh, and the small fuel.tank.as standard was already a feature of the previous E klass Merc. So actually no fuking news here