Great explanation and example, but farm tractors are a bit different... They do a very basic job, and the main ‘breakthrough’ is autonomous functioning, which is beyond the normal John Deere setup in much of their equipment.

Good info, and I can understand within reason, but I would argue the technology simply isn’t ready for commercial industrial farming use, if it’s that temperamental.

I’m all for the electric revolution in the backcountry. As much as I love motors and motor sounds coming from the thing I’m riding, nothing ruins the effect of ‘being away from it all’ like the sounds of other people doing the same thing within earshot...

But WHY is it so expensive? I don’t get it... Electric motors are cheap, and batteries aren’t THAT much...???

Worst. Idea. Ever.

John Deere is seriously trying to take DIY out of farming? AYFKM? I didn’t see that one coming. My grandparents were farmers. My Grandfather could fix any equipment, on the spot, because he had to.

I heard the gardener had gotten in it and moved it to the other side of the courtyard so he could finish with the leafblower. This is what happens when a poor touches something nice: It’s totaled. Stupid poors. What a waste.

I think they fucked up. Tanner, Rut and less-so Adam were starting to come into the format a bit better each season. If anything they should have replaced Adam and kept the other two.

I used to have an identical manual 528iT. GREAT car. Just enough power to drift it a bit and have a little fun, very smooth, and mine was very reliable with similar miles when I sold it (over a decade ago).

Watching it again, I think the biker may have just been following the recording vehicle, and when the recording vehicle slammed on the brakes, the biker couldn’t stop fast enough and made a decision to go around (given the recording vehicle moved to the median), but also couldn’t see the cunt in the gold car cutting…

It looks like the asshole in the gold car cuts off the recording vehicle, forcing the recording vehicle (Wrangler?) to slam on its brakes. The bike may not have been able to even stop fast enough (heavy two wheeler brakes slower) given the emergency created by the gold car, and he tried to slip between them as his…

No, the slow-moving car was about to completely, unlawfully, unsafely cut off the vehicle recording the video, regardless of the biker. The fucktard in the gold car is 100% in the wrong, and that driver is the proximate cause of the accident. But for the gold car making an unsafe lane change (cutting off the recording…

Blame goes partially to the biker on that one, although the Grand Am driver was just unconscionably stupid trying to cut in front of the car taking the video, regardless of whether there was a bike coming.

On one of my older Wranglers, I added H&R progressive rate springs and Bilstein shocks. It was only about $500, only about a 1.75" lift, but it made an enormous difference in handling corners, as well as big dips, potholes and washboard surfaces. Granted, we’re talking about a Jeep Wrangler, which is not far from a…

None of those has any real off road chops, which is the topic of this post. The Mazda is only available with a manual as FWD, I’m not sure about the others.

You can actually swap the V8 and everything else from the V8 Pathfinder if you want to...

You can add a lot of luxury bits from the Pathfinder of similar vintage - heated seats, compass/homelink/temp mirror, heated outside mirrors, heated steering wheel, etc.

Or buy a manual, and it’s not an issue.

They made manual 4x4 Xterras in every trim level all the way through 2015.