Air Suspension vs. Coils - Long Term Durability vs. Real Capability
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I will take mine to places like Engineers Pass, Ophir Pass, Blackbear Pass, Moab, Padre Island National Seashore, etc.
But playing in rock gardens is a whole different ball of wax.
There are some people who easily have over $100k wrapped up in their builds and wheel the crap out of them.
$88k TRD Pro Sequoais and $115k Lexus LX700h Overtails on $25k Portals.
Jeep JKU Rubicons with 392 Hemis and Dana 60s.
Someone even did it in a Cybertruck... but it sounds like that trip didnt go as planned.
Like some others have mentioned they are a fraction of a fraction of the population, but there is definitely going to be at least one that immediately goes nuts with one of these vehicles and ends up in the news
Not an official answer from Scout here, but manufacturers have to draw a line somewhere. We can't cover "stupid" in some cases.
That said, we expect people to offroad their vehicles and we will offer factory accessories for that purpose as well. Let's see what the fine print says when we get there.
Meanwhile, our teams are already talking about all the places we are going to "test" vehicles. So expect to see us take them to a wide variety of places before they reach the market. Hopefully we can take a few of you along for the ride.
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I live right next to some of the most demanding off-road gravel in the southwest, often used by auto manufacturers for proving their off-road chops. If you're in the area, I can give you and your team field tours of places they trained the Apollo and upcoming lunar astronauts, including near the gravel pits and cinder cones, and I would be happy to arrange tours of local science institutions.Not an official answer from Scout here, but manufacturers have to draw a line somewhere. We can't cover "stupid" in some cases.
That said, we expect people to offroad their vehicles and we will offer factory accessories for that purpose as well. Let's see what the fine print says when we get there.
Meanwhile, our teams are already talking about all the places we are going to "test" vehicles. So expect to see us take them to a wide variety of places before they reach the market. Hopefully we can take a few of your along for the ride.
Oh... This could include a viewing of the engineering/working model EV the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 astronauts tested on Earth and drove on the Moon (they didn't bring the Moon rovers back, so it's just the Earth-bound rover, not the ones used on the Moon).
en.wikipedia.org
Lunar Roving Vehicle - Wikipedia
Wow. Whens the lottery start?Not an official answer from Scout here, but manufacturers have to draw a line somewhere. We can't cover "stupid" in some cases.
That said, we expect people to offroad their vehicles and we will offer factory accessories for that purpose as well. Let's see what the fine print says when we get there.
Meanwhile, our teams are already talking about all the places we are going to "test" vehicles. So expect to see us take them to a wide variety of places before they reach the market. Hopefully we can take a few of you along for the ride.
What’s the big deal? The suspension in my school bus is a brick.
Boston, MA is the worst place on earth to learn how to drive, just saying.Not an official answer from Scout here, but manufacturers have to draw a line somewhere. We can't cover "stupid" in some cases.
That said, we expect people to offroad their vehicles and we will offer factory accessories for that purpose as well. Let's see what the fine print says when we get there.
Meanwhile, our teams are already talking about all the places we are going to "test" vehicles. So expect to see us take them to a wide variety of places before they reach the market. Hopefully we can take a few of you along for the ride.
Don’t forget to test them in horrible places with horrible people behind the wheel who don’t have a lot of technical driving skills (unless we’re counting parallel parking and banging out a very confident U-turn in front of the police station). I’ll do it for free with zero liability.
Making sure you don’t lose your job (wink, wink). I get it
Wonder if there's an opportunity for Scout to offer a factory coilover setup vs. the standard coil over fixed strut setup that comes on a most new IFS vehicles... I really dislike the disassembly process when replacing/upgrading from factory struts to new aftermarket adjustable or OEM struts... Just something about spring compressors that I feel are only seconds away from unscheduled rapid disassembly...
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