If it came to more axle ratio or a double case...Im taking a double case eveytime.  It will net you WAY more than a ratio will and still be usuable on the road.

The real reason is not a practical one, it’s because Jeep advertises the Rubicon’s maximum crawl ratio (and the magazines all quote it) and Ford wants to be able to beat that number.

Still shouldn’t need 4.70 with a 10 speed auto or 6 speed manual with crawler gear and not with 310 lbs-ft at 3000 rpm.

EMC “ElectroMagnetic Compatibility” testing is pretty standard for electronics and isn’t bullshit. Every piece of electronics that you have with CE marked on it has been tested this way. The reason for testing is for safety of equipment, not due to ionizing radiation (though ionizing radiation danger is covered under…

Okay, I’ll bite.  What’s your proposal?  Are you suggesting that the company pay them to not work?  I don’t work there, either.  Should they be paying me?

How dare they threaten to not pay someone for not doing their job!

Ram made so much money on the Last Gen truck they decided to keep making the damn thing so they could make even more money.

This, and all similar “make x from image of y” type “AI” are not AI at all. It is a system trained with a neural network. It is a system that follows a logical path from point A to point B based on the things it has seen in the past. You give a system thousands (or millions) of images and say “THIS IS A FACE”. The…

Especially when a 12 year old car is selling hotter now than when it was introduced.  Why on Earth would you disrupt that?  Why would you change an appreciating asset? 

People make this argument all of the time but somehow fail to realize that FCA doesn’t need to redesign vehicles that sell well 

Should be pretty internal rind-free though. 

“their American market cars”

“remove all internal rinds.” twice.

all this means is that artificial “intelligence” is still pretty goddamned stupid. Janelle Shane- an AI researcher who published the humorous AI-developed paint names and recipes- said the best AI we have is about as intelligent as a worm. You can get it to recognize patterns but it’s incapable of understanding what…

If a Jeep is around $48k then why are you surprised that it’s payment is so high? Aren’t E-trons around $80k out the door? Do you think dealerships own these things for free? Margins aren’t THAT great for most regular vehicles, with the exception being highly optioned big trucks/SUVS and luxury/high-end…

Last time I checked, DC uses tax dollars. Tax dollars that need to be spread across an area much larger than Germany.

You clearly don’t read enough Jalopnik. The only people who matter live in Brooklyn, all of their experiences are valid for everyone and their suggestions are universally applicable.

Good point.

rinse and repeat

Making it more attractive sounds good. Doing it by raising taxes/fees, or making other transportation options worse, is exactly taking away other choices, or at least making them less attractive on purpose. I hope they use a carrot, and not the stick.