• Bubs@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      Wouldn’t that be the same for any show car? Like, you don’t want to scuff up the new tires by unnecessarily taking the car over a curb.

      Granted, they should have put them away for the show, but they clearly don’t have much brain power to show.

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        You think they do that with a jeep, or some other actual off-road vehicle? Maybe they would, but I think the curb would take out that nazi car. That’s the difference.

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          It might not take it out but at 6900lbs it’s probably really hard on the sidewalls.

          Jeep JKs weight less than half of that.

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            I was behind a cyber truck the other day when it went over train tracks. I thought it was going to fall apart.

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          3 days ago

          For a showroom vehicle where you want everything on the vehicle to be as spotless and unblemished as possible, yeah, I would imagine some places would.

          Sure, not everywhere is gonna do it, but I would guess that they had a time or two where a car slipped on the curb and scuffed up the tire. It’s one more thing to potentially turn off a customer. Plus, they maybe can’t sell the car until they replace the damaged tires (just my guess).

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            3 days ago

            Scuffs and dirt are sources of pride for real off roaders. Sure the Detroit, Tokyo, London car shows they keep it spotless, and inside. For this, I suspect there’s a jeep on a 45° ramp somewhere with the front wheel of the jeep about where the roof of the CT is.

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              “Real offroaders” wouldn’t buy a brand new car from a showroom, and if they would, the car would be spotless because they used ramps. They won’t celebrate scuffs and dirt that they didn’t make themselves.