One of the more interesting things I’ve seen was a CVT in the rear hub. It used a larger grooved ball and a smaller grooved one that indexed across it to give gearing variances. It was controlled by a hand crank tho. It was a manual, however it has “unlimited” gearing.

Just buy the damn minivan. That interior looks shockingly cheap. The middle and rear rows look cramped. The thing is slightly better looking then the RX350 redesign (exceptionally low bar.) Toyota is gonna sell way too many of these instead of doing the thing and making the lexus version of the minivan available…

the officer was ex military. He completed 3 tours. It may have been something with that.  no clue. 

Looks like every shot struck the vehicle. However it seems that the arrested suspect rolled sideways and to the floor/rear footwell. If that was true, the officers angled upward shots would miss him from that on top of there being a lot of angled metal between him and the footwell of the durango.

Not in Murica!  *fires off first shot then empties mag in panic from sound of first shot* 

Swap Forza with something a bit more SIM like Grand Turismo. 

Laughs at remembering Suzuki Jimnys run over this and more bone stock in Honduras on my trip last summer. 

Funny thing. You have a 1 in 5 chance that the bolt holding said recovery hook isn’t a properly hardened steel bolt. See GM still operating under the COVID protocol that allows for low quality OEM parts on assembly.

The hidden metrics and hand-waving deflection will always be a marketing scheme as well as a politicians out. The bad of it is that the buyer never knows what they are actually buying or voter what they are voting for, if they don’t know how to read regulated metrics and interpret data. someone saying a 200% increase…

Cool! They offer it at dealer invoiced price?
no?
Umm, reduced cost from the reduced overhead?
No?  Really??? 

The shitty part is uber already takes their cut off the top before they give you the remaining carrot. They then come back and eat more of it?
How very Ticketmaster of them. 

The issue is that there is no standardized test for rolling resistance and no official rating metric stamped on tires. They always use marketing gimmicks and data representation manipulation, like politicians, to sway purchases. There IS a difference in range from an EV tire, a run-flat tire, and a bargain tire. on my…

I REALLY wish they used closed-cell foam for this. The area I live has exceptional humidity and the tires can and do get water in them over air refills over time. The open-cell foam degrades and gums up faster then the tires wear and cause balance issues.  It’s really fun... 

40% faster in worst use cases. As stated in the article from tire companies paid to track the hard data.

lower rolling resistance means smaller amounts of deformation from a stiffer tire and sidewall. Leading to a smaller and less reactive contact patch. Normal everyday driving, you will never notice a difference. The fun starts when you start looking at the tread patterns on top of that and getting into what that…

Anything from Dodge. It’s all decades old and outdated for the segment. Adding power does not fix the issues. Regardless of what Dodge does.

Run the numbers on street tires on a public road and no rollout and the dodge drops HARD. 

Hyundai has a plug in that size for a lot cheaper.

EV’s I’ve driven are quieter until about 50mph. The registered noise is just different. The thrum of the engine replaced by the drone of wind. It’s a lot easier to hear other vehicles around you. IT’s less loud overall from a meter, however the brain regulates its all to about the same volume. 

My etron came with some tires from OEM that had irregular side block openings. every 3-5 shoulder block was cut open and the others were a channel like this. Make things more fun. some were straight 90s others were angled off.