I’m disappointed, Jason. I would absolutely expect you, of all people, to know the difference between a rear view mirror (the one in the middle of the car used to see what’s to the REAR of a car) and side view mirrors (undo no circumstance should these be used to see to the rear of a car, they are for the elimination…

On the whole, the autonomous car and ride sharing stuff has no interest to or effect on me. Where and how I live pretty much precludes the latter, and my own preferences the former. That said, this brings up a pretty good point.

I figured it was probably a classic Torch prank, but I had to look just in case... Magazines have existed at some time or another for every manner of pedantry, so I was so very hopeful there were enough people of my ilk to have warranted the dispensing of ink... If this were a thing, I would take every shit in…

If you look slightly left of the middle of a map of the US, you’ll find several states with quite a bit of the sort of roads and terrain where such a device would be very useful.

Tilt gauges are super cool, super cheap, and super useful. Why are they not at least options from at least one manufacturer with off-road pretenses? You’d think the Renegade (I had to look up the name of that little abortion) would have six of them (one for each passenger, and another for whomever is behind them in…

After 50 or 60 years of market consolidation and anti-competitive practices, it seems the automotive industry has finally come to a point, either from regulation finally catching up or truly revolutionary technologies, to where there is expansion again. Between the rise of so many promising automotive start ups and…

Seems to me the 4Runner would be MORE capable... This is Jeep chasing Land Rover, and that’s not an especially off-road oriented aim. The 4Runner may have turned into a mommy-mobile, but it’s at least still mechanically simple and reliable. I wouldn’t necessarily pick either as my first choice with such an aim, but…

Jeep’s aim of late seems to be an attempt to beat Land Rover at their game. The Wrangler is a mainstay, pays the bills, and remains as brutal as ever (in a positive way), but its days are undoubtedly numbered from the perspective of regulatory pressures. Everything else in the lineup borders on poseur. Sure, they can…

In summary, these features shall henceforth be known as “Dynamic CowlJowls” in the “Cybaroque style”.

n the whole if this were in showrooms right now (sans cartoon compass and tween-speak decals) I’d be there in a heartbeat. This is the off road capable small truck answer.

‘Bugatti says “If all the fibres used in the monocoque were laid out end to end, they would stretch nine times the distance between the earth and the moon,” and that the monocoque takes four whole weeks to make.’

I got a truck a while back that came with 24 (all of them) locking lug nuts of some very high quality, well designed, yet obscure and no longer extant make. I tried everything... Seriously. A billion different removal kits were useless as all the wheel/tire shops in the area were totally flummoxed and had never seen…

It’s too bad I can only star it once... This is why I come to the comments!

Pretty much every new bus concept to date has been horribly let down by the absolute and unfathomably inviolable need to have the engine in the wrong place (the front). It’s to the point that new bus concepts simply don’t excite me because I know they’re going to be abject failures at being bus-like. However...…

It seems to me there’s a huge gap on the cool - poseur spectrum between former military vehicles adapted to civilian use and civilian vehicles adapted for... Civilian use.

I think the crux of what you’re getting at is the utilitarian design ethos intended to perform a single task well versus a more... How to put it nicely... Focus group-oriented design strategy? A “Jeep”, assuming I understand you correctly, is a tool first. It makes sacrifices in many areas so that it excels in others.…

The whole point of the digital dash mess (at least as far as I can figure) is to be able to display more information more flexibly. The reality is that in actual use, some small subset of the available information is displayed and never changes. It seems to me that some simple mechanical gauges as dealer options or on…

That is exactly what I thought and came here to post. “Jeep” caused a double take, followed by a questioning of the use of the word in the way muggles used to call my FJ40 a “jeep”, and then a scroll on down to the comments section.

This is the sort of racing story I like to read about!

I’ve done a fair amount of research on the subject of oils in leather, specifically decomposition of the triglycerides into fatty acids and diglycerides through the lens of rancidification and long term preservation, their action, results, byproducts, etc. And I strongly suggest you don’t wear the shoes any more than…