Re:Adding unusable RAM for tax reasons
by fredoralive on Thursday January 20, 2022 @02:17PM
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Recently in Europe we had a kinda reverse - Suzuki removed the rear seats of the Jimny, a small 4x4, to reclassify it as a commercial vehicle to qualify for laxer CO2 emission standards.
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Yeah, but they also really dumbed down the interior and lowered roof quality, while selling it for the same MSRP as the previous model (still + 10k from the actual sellers, bringing it to Toyota RAV4 territory price-wise).
Re:Adding unusable RAM for tax reasons
by fredoralive on Thursday January 20, 2022 @04:01PM
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Ouch, I think I'd seen something about them swapping to steel wheels instead of alloys, but I didn't realise it had generally been downgraded. And that price...
Pity, as I kinda like the Jimny even if it makes no sense at all for me to own one.
I’ve sat in the back of a Jimny, the rear seats might as well not exist.
Anyway here’s a popular video of a 660cc Jimny towing a large truck that’s stuck in snow during the great Tokyo Blizzard of 2014.