its heresy, i know.

i dunno about that. huge rubber sure, crazy aero sure, but i dont think Nakai hit the ‘tunnel to optimize all the vents/splitters/thingamabobs. and no suspension engineer in their right mind would EVER throw 3 lbs of wheel spacer at each corner to get that crazy width and offset if they were really going to track it.
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this isnt that different from an RWB or liberty walk build, no? Sure parts are different, and there is a lot of ‘style’ and not much more ‘substance’, but at the end of the day, the body work to achieve this vision is pretty nice. From the pics in the FB album, there was a lot of effort in the fender work here. I…

no shit. i had no idea. I totally thought the 5.0s are 5 lug.

yeah, but 4 lug. this is a case of up-badging a 4cyl into a 5.0.
and the case is closed.

i am simultaneously afraid of over-torquing and under-torquing my lugs nuts.

came to see Farah greased up and slipped into a Midget. left happy.

sounds good. and since it will/can be AWD, we can finally have that LeMons/spec rally Cimarron series we’ve always wanted!!!

how thats a ford flex i can get behind!

i pictured the “write a number” category when i thought to myself “all you have to do is just step out of the car. you can literally walk to safety”

Neutral: I think this is a good idea. and because insurance companies are known to take good ideas and pervert them into oblivion for the sport of F’ing with normal people, I can totally see them denying coverage after a crash when they find out that you didn’t bring your car in for that headlight washer nozzle…

true, but if its cheaper to buy this and save a bunch of insurance money for the first 2 years of riding, then throw on the big bore kit for extra funsies later on, that would be a much better value proposition

Any chance of Ducati offering a ‘big bore upgrade’ like you can get with the HD Sportster? (883 to 1200cc).

Him and Elon really need to hang out more. I have to imagine that they would just feed of each other’s crazy ideas and some truly epic shit would happen.

here is a slide from the internet that caster better than i can

if you slow the vid right down at 0:42s, you can see that the vertical strut centerline is not quite intersecting the horizontal axis of the hub/wheel, it is rearward of that. this is the first clue that he has some wacky geometry (obvs, since its also got like 70 degrees of steering lock).
so, whats happening (i…

on a scale of, lets say, crocs-to-locally roasted flat whites, how trendy will this be at the local StarBucks?
have the spokes been artisianally laced to the hand-forged rims, and will that get me more Streetcredz than the rims on the R1200GS?

just me, or does the robber sound like Axel Foley?

shit. thats a teachable moment if i ever saw one.

I think the biggest take-away from this news is that Icelandic 4x4's are gonna FINALLY be on-trend, and those awesome machines will now be part of pop culture here.... and maybe even those unlimited hill climb buggies!!! *squeal*
F&F has a history of making awesome car niches more mainstream, like it or not.