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Originally Posted by dcb
nooo... it isn't cuz Explorers are topheavy and should require special licensing as well as propery linflated tires, noooo. LOL!
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Wha?
early generation explorers, along with early gen landcruisers, early broncos, troopers, samurai, and all the other "OH MY GOD IT FLIPS OVER ALL THE TIME!!! OH NOOOOOOOOOOO" 4x4's out there handle differently than family sedans for a reason... they need ground clearance and suspension flexibility in order to do their job, which is travel across inclement terrain. at their time of introduction I doubt the manufacturers expected them to be daily drivers for people living in san diego.
instead of putting the blame on ignorant drivers who think they can treat a 4x4 like a sports car (you wouldn't drive a corvette on the rubicon trail, would you?), society decided to blame the vehicles. so now the manufacturers have had to produce neutered, heavy and inefficient wagon/vans named after the previously useful 4x4's, with the inefficient vestiges of their ancestors but few if any of the advantages that made them useful
to their original audience in the first place.
i think we should go back to making capable 4x4 utility vehicles, install sophisticated motion sensors in them to determine if you are driving aggressively or with disregard for the type of vehicle they're in - if so, the electronics should coast the vehicle to a stop and then begin bludgeoning the driver with a stick while berating them for being a moron.
mankind can never develop as long as we keep reducing everything to the lowest common denominator and keep
catering to the whims of anyone who decides they're "offended" by something.