This is not a good firestarter, as it includes no accelerant of its own, and won’t burn if it’s wet, and won’t burn hot when it burns at all. This is literally just compressed paper, unless I profoundly misunderstand the (distressingly text-less) video.

My experience, and it’s all I’ve got to go on, is that the per capita rate of idiot is approximately the same no matter what segment of the human population you look at. Amount of idiot doesn’t change, only type: “city folk” are just a different kind of idiot from “rednecks”.

The Independent Drivers Guild chimed in with a comment about driverless cars; the company’s efforts to use self-driving technology in the future: “What are you going to do about YOUR DRIVERS when driverless cars come on the road?”

Currently in the process of rewiring my Cherokee headlights to work essentially this way, the only difference being I’ll have a defeat switch for those times I’d like to drive without lights. Basically I’m just wiring it backward, so that the headlights default to On.

Deeply freudian: an XJ control arm was my first thought, as well. Jeep is a disease: that shit is IN us.

It’s probably worth knowing more about the ergonomics situation before having many feelings about it one way or the other. Some level of physical stress is acceptable with physical labor, absolutely, but some machines require movements that are inordinately physically damaging, and for which minor changes could make…

I’m of the opinion that an unused tool is wasted. :) My next major upgrade is an LSD for the rear, and dual handbrakes, and while drifting isn’t the ONLY reason I’m going this route, it’s given shocking weight in my decision. Plus, I apparently think “XJ” spells “BMW”.

Indeed, this does seem rather a useless or broken semantic distinction (particularly since you can powerslide WAY before the apex: I just did it, in the snow, in an XJ, without doors, and it’s just the best).

That’s right: with the tent, 5 years, guaranteed. Without it, they’d probably have been cancelled halfway through the first season. I get it. The tent is the key to the universe. The tent is life. You clearly married a tent, and I’m sorry I offended you by suggesting the tent might not be necessary.

Just out of curiosity, would this be of use to most of the people who would buy that car?

Right. After 15 years. Do you think we’ll get 15 years of Grand Tour?

Cost wouldn’t change: if you eliminate the tent entirely, costs would actually decrease, because there would be less stuff to move about; if you integrate it into the show, it’s not going to be MORE expensive than filming it in one place and the other films in a different place.

Primarily, it was fine. Not excellent (although elements were), not dreaful (though elements were), but fine. I’ll watch the second season; most of us will. The first season of old new Top Gear wasn’t perfect, either, by any means, but I think there’s a middle balance between the two that could benefit the show.

So what if the rear brakes don’t work?

The answer to everything except safety, capacity, performance, and rough terrain, anyway. I’d happily drive one, but it couldn’t possibly be the only car I’d ever need.

It’s actually pretty nice - I drove with no passenger seat in my XJ for months; makes for lots of storage space or rear legroom - but unless it’s center-seat, I’m not really interested.

It’s not just that the E60 is the ugliest 5-series, or that it’s the ugliest BMW (perhaps tied with some other Bangle-tastic Bimmers): it’s one of the ugliest cars ever committed to production. It’s like someone made a replica of a real BMW out of butter, and then left it in the sun too long. And the nose slants the…

The continued use of “white women” and “black women” as a class, rather than as individuals, is detrimental to the goal of equality for all. This article, with its otherwise compelling message, sadly perpetrates the error of lumping millions of people into a class and treating them all identically: that’s prejudice,…

There are people who DON’T buy their parts from Amazon?! :) Ever since I got Prime, the only time I’ve had to go to a parts store is when I needed something same-day. I’ve only had one fitment issue, and that was the manufacturer’s fault (damn you, Wagner; have you never even SEEN an XJ exhaust?).

Let’s make something clear right off the bat: There is absolutely nothing sexy about the KLR.