My preferred hike/climb aren’t 30k feet, but I understand why people climb Everest and K2.  1000 miles is a nice round number, but you could always do a 1000km which would be 620 miles.

Do you drive normal cars until their tires hit the concrete blocks, or the underside of the bumper scrape over? If you stop short of them, you don’t have to worry about your ground clearance

It’s not that everyone “can’t handle” you, it’s that they think you’re insufferable for derailing an entire comment section for your cause.  It’s exhausting being around people who wake up every day looking for a reason to get offended.

> displacement of a large sedan

Pardonne, but I was told my pistol would be inoxidable...

Some fair points, but what are you doing to these poor cars that makes torch resistance, welding fumes, and vaporization such concerns?

That’s not how it works, you can’t just show up un-requested for an extra shift and then hold your hand out. What’s going to happen in this case is you just won’t be able to log in once you hit 35-40 hours.

I would bet that in this case, the expensive job was for labor hours to remove more parts to get access.  In those cases your savings come from contorting your way around the parts you don’t remove, or you end up having to remove them halfway through and take longer.

Unfortunately Jalopnik is Gawker/Jezebel-adjacent, and a lot of the Brooklyn cat-owner snark works its way over.  Good on you for bringing some perspective.

I’d say the snarky writing is at least as over the top as the Toyota marketing, no?

(pushes glasses up nose, nasally tone engaged)

Nobody is switching from 911s and 488s to Cayennes and LaSUVs.  They’re upgrading their wives’ LX570s or the luxury truck they use for trips.

Can we just go back to the F-22 now?

If there’s one thing that’s not a concern, it’s having a “heavy” engine.  Even with double the cylinders and triple the displacement, the LS3 is only about 90 lbs heavier (410-420 vs. 330ish).  A full vs. empty gas tank will have more impact.

I blame the Gawker/Jezebel “X is litrully Y and I can’t even, y’all” school of journolisticalism.

If it has a low range, could be more than double that (2.7:1 transfer case is common).

Definitely axle torque. To put this in perspective, truck crawl ratios are commonly 30-60:1, ie something like 4:1 for 1st gear, 3:1 for low range, 4:1 for final drive.

“The 3.0 Duramax delivers 460 lbs-ft these days. The Camry’s 3.5 liter is barely over half that. That engine is shameful.”

But muh horsepower per hole size metric...

More importantly, why would they slap “6.75"s everywhere as a tribute to the “6 3/4"?  And will they rate its power as “adequate” or “sufficient” like they used to?