you're right, but like with the rolex, its only humiliating if the reason you are getting the fake is to impress people.

ever try plastidip?

damn, I didn't know they made so many changes in the later generation

why is the turbo version considered so much better than the supercharged ones?

If they've seen the car or know something about how it was painted sure they can get close, but a picture is not enough especially from what they are saying about this paint, from the description here saying its multiple layers I'm guessing it is a candy paint, probably a silver base , maybe metallic, then a few…

yeah, and it'll be piss poor

So, how are you going to get a sample, go rip the bumper cover off one of the show cars and bring it to them?

I bet they'd say, what's the paint code?

The problem is that it is a German company, that almost certainly means all the design, or at least the final word on everything comes from Germany and in Germany they don't understand SUV's or CUV's, and generally everything else what American's buy.

as travis said above, you can never waive negligence.

Ente Süßsauer gave a good example of 4 reviews which one might compare it wouldn't be unreasonable for a person to be considering all of those cars and if they didn't read a thing in any of the articles and picked on number rating alone do you think they'd have made a good decision?

I'm aware that the surfaces offroad are not as easily designed for as even pavement and that in offroad racing tire selection and alteration by grooving is a crucial area.

your points are well thought out and I agree that this is an issue they have, but if you just read the articles and ignore the numbers it's fine

yeah it's probably closer to 60% rear depending on if you've got a passenger, a winch and what not. which means there may be some performance gains for running a slightly narrower tire in the front, but then you need to carry 2 different spares.

contact patch size is based on weight distribution, if the vehicle has even weight distribution they should be equal, if it has a heavy rear weight bias then the fronts should be smaller.

I don't disagree with any of those points.

I think you're at least partially wrong about the half ton market.

For the last 10-15 years I flew them 3 times a year from BMI to ATL always thought they were fine. I flew Southwest for the first time a couple weeks ago and I decidedly do not enjoy their seating system. AirTran will be missed.

yes obviously the sea water won't be used to directly cool the equipment more likely to cool the condenser. Although maybe they could recycle the heat back into the power generation system on a nuclear boat.

then it's quite advantageous that the system is mounted on a boat in the middle of the ocean isn't! That will be a problem when it goes ashore