Same. Even PLDC/WLC, had to buff floors. I eventually went OCS and thought “ah ha, finally a course in TRADOC where I won’t be getting my Floor Buffer Driver’s badge.” But sure enough, my first weekend duty, out came the floor buffers.

Indeed, I was half expecting the ‘journalist’ at the helm of this particular article to not do any further research and just go by what the announcer said. I was pleasantly surprised to find he correctly ID’d it as a 5 ton.

I was Army, we used them. Frequently.

That youtube commenter is full of shit. The only thing I ever drove at boot camp was a floor buffer.

Is this what the youths consider music? If so... I might have to come out from under my rock and listen to more of it.

I really appreciate that you took this minivan thing further off road (even if it was a prepared track) than 99% of the Wrangler owners in my area.

258 miles is great, but have you looked at the thing? Makes the 1st gen Nissan Leaf look sexy by comparison. The non-ev Kona is hideous, and this manages to top that.

My wife likened the sound to a camel giving birth at anything off-idle.

Another vote for keeping the rotary in place is that they’re stupid easy to R&R... Working alone in my home garage with basic hand tools, my first time ever pulling the engine & trans out of one of these took an entire 4 hours. Install being the reverse of removal, took slightly less time.

Yeah. Metering Oil Pump or “MOP”(sometimes “OMP” for “Oil Metering Pump”). On my RX8's I removed them and premixed w/Idemitsu.

You get this a LOT in SoCal. It doesn’t rain frequently enough for people to pay attention to their tread depth, but when it does rain... look out. When I worked there I could go out and show you a dozen cars w/bald tires in a walk around the parking lot on any given day.

They still haven’t fixed the typo for the trailer tow package...

Can’t help but think of “High Flight” by John Gillespie Magee, Jr:

Sounds more like the clutch disc let go vs. something internal to the trans. Either way is going to require dropping the transmission, but once you get it dropped, hand turn the input shaft in any gear, and see if the output shaft spins. If not, trans rebuild time. If so, as you probably already saw during disassembly,…

I sincerely hope so. My CX-5 would regularly eclipse it’s EPA numbers... but it’s worth noting my CX-5 was a 2.0 6spd m/t 2015 model and it scores the same as the diesel FWD in combined (29 combined, 26 city/34 hwy).

Here we go with anecdotes again... but my FWD 6spd M/T 2.0l 2015 CX-5 would regularly score 36+ MPG on the highway between fill ups on 86-87 octane (aka the cheap stuff). Granted, it was slower than a Prius, but once you got up to speed it wasn’t too difficult to keep it there.

Have lived in Lafayette, IN, had to look real close before I realized it was satire.

But also, Nissan is coming out with a thing called “Rear Door Alert” and hopefully this kind of thing catches on with manufacturers who actually make cars that aren’t terrible. Because idk about you, but I need my left shoe for driving.

Going from this: