Khhm, *puts glasses on* it is a wheel loader...

What is going on with this?

I bet that’s where they carried the kayak to the photo shoot.

I hear you, I got a small pickup, kayak on the bed, easy.

Yeah, that kayak on top... look at us, we our ready for the outdoors. Good luck wrestling that thing up and down from there. You have a perfectly good, empty roof rack on that SUV, no lets put this boat up to the top of the camper, and not flat, but sideways...

This “tech” is invented long time ago for transportation already. Look up the Alerter in locomotives.

Tartar sauce... *hides under the table*

Oh ok, that make sense, I certainly missed that part of the question. 

Sorry, I don’t really understand your question, but I’m referencing the “first gen” 2011 CR-Z, here is what Car and driver said about it:

Honda CR-Z, lot of people hoped that it would be the next CR-X, it wasn’t...

I did a lot, it is slow, it is crude, it is loud, not comfortable by any means, it will break down on you when you need it the most (unlike many peeps are thinking otherwise). But it is capable, it will go places you think it shouldn’t, and the heater is exemplary!

If anything the Lada Niva is overrated, it is a very capable 4x4, but it is propped up to some kind of legendary vehicle here (just like many other eastern bloc cars). People who didn’t have to live with those cars and rely on them day in and day out. I drove these a plenty and take any western equivalent here without…

Mid nineties Toyota Previa AWD, supercharged. Plenty of space to pack, and surprisingly capable with a little help.

Diamond is running their new planes with a diesel engine burning Jet-A. Definitely not overly heavy, or low performance or not reliable. They are expensive.  

The box is extended on the top two pictures for height, you can see the the “travel” setup on the third picture, looks more like standard truck on that one.

Oh that was a joke... in that case I congratulate to you dear Sir, (or Madam) for the subtlety. In retrospect it is not that subtle now, that I’m revisiting your fine post, either way, you got me!

“Most of us lived”... but not all of you, I bet the percentage of lived vs. died is probably much more on the died side, compared to what we have today.

Anyone find this fascinating, please read the book The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston.

1963 Studebaker Avanti

I can’t speak for other companies, but the couple I know do zero “kickback”. The towing business (at least in SoCal) is well regulated and regularly inspected. The company I worked for was one of the cleanest running business I ever had experience with.