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Originally Posted by N54Yankee
Back to the drawing board
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Why? Based on the design of the off-road Wrangler and the requirements for the offset crash test, the barrier basically hits the side frame rail of the chassis. There really is no "fender" on the Jeep to absorb crash energy, so the energy just pushes the high-center of gravity off-road vehicle on it's side. Remember the Wrangler has a full roll cage, so rolling over is really not an issue.
Also the test is probably less realistic than an actual crash between two vehicles where both vehicles absorb crash energy by collapsing and rotating away from the impact point. Even if the Jeep were to hit a guardrail abutment the guardrail collapses (as it is designed to do). Hitting a concrete bridge abutment really isn't comfortable in any type of vehicle.
It is a Jeep after all, with a high center of gravity point and a long-stroke suspension designed for off road use. Compromised design for a test mostly meant for road vehicles. Plus how many Jeeps do you see with "If you can read this, Flip me over".
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."