Or a 20/20 car. Good from 20 feet away and at 20 mph.
“The shackles look... good enough. I would pass that.”
I think Ford’s thought is that anyone who is serious enough that they absolutely must have a manual and lockers and steep gearing will probably not be satisfied with OEM parts anyway and will more likely build it themselves.
But offroading is fun in the first place. I never had a bad time in my auto-trans ‘90 Bronco...
It’s more fun to some people, including me. Wheeling doesn’t need to be about optimization or ease-of-use. It’s an inherently illogical hobby, after all!
It’s almost like you didn’t even read my post, so I’ll use small words.
I’m a bit torn over the badging.
A certain segment of the Wrangler’s target demographic would love that. They’d never stop talking about how it’s “military grade” or “tactical” while pointing out all of their stickers that mimic the warning labels on military vehicles.
Fill the frame rails with depleted uranium problem solved
which is that it’d look pretty damn rude to go have fun racing some cars in Europe while millions of Americans are potentially still freshly unemployed, and thousands more have died.
Parsecs?
I don’t know that it’s a Lincoln, but his trip started around “17th and Lincoln” as mentioned in the tweet.