Looks like a linked rear end. Pretty slick. Wonder what they are doing up front... if they went to the lengths of linking the thing.. I don't really see them sticking with a stock down-travel limited IFS based setup... then again. It's GM.
Me make shiny. All the cool kids are blogging. So, let's see how badly I can screw it up! http://rupertsrnc.blogspot.com/
For the most part. If memory serves, it's also the cucumber capital of Japan. Hence the home-market ads for the FT-86 featuring Takeichi-kun, the cartoon cucumber whose meteoric rise through the underground drift world has shamed him in the eyes of his school-master.
Looks like a linked rear end. Pretty slick. Wonder what they are doing up front... if they went to the lengths of linking the thing.. I don't really see them sticking with a stock down-travel limited IFS based setup... then again. It's GM.
If this thing were built with good ol' solid axles and coils, it'd be the first legitimate Wrangler challenger in over a decade.
As it stands, I predict that, if this thing even sees the light of day, it'll be another lunchbox-body-on-a-small-truck-chassis job. I.e., IFS with fragile front diff, limited flex all around. If this thing hits the pavement, it'll be the open-top equivalent of the FJCruiser: too big and bloaty for narrow trails, too IFS and low to the ground for actual wheeling.
This was one of the concepts I saw in clay at the GM design studio on a tour a few years ago. It looked a bit different back then, but the name and the basic concept of a Wrangler-esque Hummer is the same.
I like it, I bet it makes it to production in some form.
If this thing were built with good ol' solid axles and coils, it'd be the first legitimate Wrangler challenger in over a decade.
As it stands, I predict that, if this thing even sees the light of day, it'll be another lunchbox-body-on-a-small-truck-chassis job. I.e., IFS with fragile front diff, limited flex all around. If this thing hits the pavement, it'll be the open-top equivalent of the FJCruiser: too big and bloaty for narrow trails, too IFS and low to the ground for actual wheeling.
And be sentenced to the mall parking lots like all of its relatives.
I hope you've got a big trunk, cause I'm gonna put my bike in it.
In all fairness, if this was posted in the MKIII/MKIV/MKV Forums, you'd probably get a much better reception. If the cover photo was dripping with HDR, you could probably hear the man-goo smacking their monitors.
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