America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient

Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient by Retric on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:36PM (#14370877)

Don't forget 'car' is a rather arbitrary category. The car > minivan > SUV 'soccer mom' transition added these beasts:

  Infiniti QX80 – 5,633 pounds
  Toyota Sequoia – 5,730 pounds
  Toyota Land Cruiser – 5,765 pounds
  Lincoln Navigator – 5,830 pounds
  Lexus LX 570 – 6,000 pounds

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Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient by theparanoid on Thursday May 18, 2017 @08:38PM (#14372229)

The Toyota Land Cruiser is not like the others, it's popular with militant groups. And has been in production since 1951.

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Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient by Retric on Thursday May 18, 2017 @10:11PM (#14372565)

That's a connection more or less in name only. Much like the connection between a military hummer and an H3. The 1950 FJ and BJ was a jeep knockoff with a cloth roof. https://www.fj.co/blog/history-of-the-toyota-fj-series/ http://www.toyota-global.com/showroom/vehicle_heritage/landc...

The FJ40 from 1960 is somewhat comparable, but weighed 1/2 (3263 lbs) what the modern beast weighs.

The FJ60 (http://tlc4x4.com/fj60.htm#sthash.nB2cpi4h.dpbs) from 1981 was even closer and heavy at 4246 lbs, but again still 1,500 lb lighter than the current version.

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Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient by coredog64 on Thursday May 18, 2017 @09:49PM (#14372492)

Meh. The Chevy Suburban has been in near continuous production since 1929. The gap? When they used the factories that made them to turn out tanks for WWII.

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