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Today’s front-drive cars to me are actually more difficult to handle in snow and ice, even though they have the ability to pull themselves out of trouble (cart behind the horse, vs the pusher drive of the older cars with the horse behind the cart. Think about it.) I got used to feeling the tail try to swing and bringing it back in line; front drive cars you have to do almost the exact opposite and add a touch of throttle to try and pull the car into line.

(One wonders if the carbon-fiber cargo bed is also a test bed for larger production goals—as another journalist pointed out to me, Ford quietly made the hood of the F-150 from aluminum for years before copping to it, at which point they had just rolled out an entire truck made out of the stuff; whether CarbonPro presages a full carbon-fiber-framed truck—somehow, some way—is an interesting question.)

"I got in my truck and started driving. As I approached the intersection I started to brake. The brakes went all the way down and the truck did not brake. I ended up past the stop sign in the middle of the intersection. I turned around and went back slowly to my house. I almost hit a pedestrian where the truck did not brake."

Back in May, a reader sent Jalopnik a tip about Chevrolet Colorado airbags deploying off-road. “As a ZR2 owner myself, I am very concerned about taking my truck off pavement now,” he told us after reading various complaints on owner forums. I started looking into it.

The MTA v3 lineup — MTA 524, 627 and 628 — currently covers the entire Cat 3500 engine range of 1500 to 2525 kW and provides the benefits of large savings in maintenance costs, lower maintenance and service risks and simple firefighting installation, Caterpillar said.

A modern truck is much more than a towing and hauling appliance; it’s a mobile office, a family wagon, and a sanctum of retreat for commuters. Chevrolet has consequently made every kind of driver convenience and assistance feature available on the Silverado. You can get a head-up display, front and rear parking sensors, blind spot and lane change assist, rear cross traffic alert, forward collision mitigation, a haptic safety alert driver’s seat, and all the good stuff you expect to find in a modern vehicle.

The hybrid Liebherr TL 432-7 telehandler also downsized from a 3.6 to a 2.2L Deutz engine, while maintaining the same aggregate horsepower combining mechanical and electrical output. In both cases the hybrid machines can be powered mechanically or on nothing but electrical power by storing the energy in a 10 kilowatt-hour battery. Deutz says a 15-percent fuel savings can be achieved depending on load cycle and application.

It is critical for the technician to check the service information and deactivate these systems before removing the calipers and wheel speed sensors.

(4) Kawasaki KX450. With the Kawasaki becoming the first Japanese-built motocross bike to update to hydraulics, we thought our KX450 clutch issues would be behind us. Not so. Our KX450 clutch squealed and faded, not because of the hydraulics but in spite of them. The hydraulics did not fix the shortcomings of the KX clutch. We not only replaced the clutch plates at abbreviated intervals but had to install stiffer clutch springs and remove the judder spring system to get full bite.

I have a basic pass/fail test for safety systems. If they enable me to do what I want better than I can do it myself, they pass. If they insist on doing something I don’t want to do, they fail. ABS passes because it enables me to brake at the limit of adhesion. ESC passes because it will save my ass if I overcook a corner. I paid $2,000 for the navigation system on my 2008 Infiniti because it included a backup camera with the projected path superimposed on the screen. I have yet to experience blind spot warning but would expect it not to alert unless there was a vehicle truly in the blind spot rather than in the second lane over or a car length behind me. (I’d prefer cameras with graphics to show me exactly where the other vehicle is. Then, I could make an informed decision.)

Another story comes from a gentleman named Mike Saad, who commented on the GM-Trucks.com story about Joe’s incident. Saad’s post shows a dark Colorado with its side airbags deployed after apparently driving on a fire road. He writes:

“I like TPMS in theory, but in practice I’ve dealt with enough faults that I’m sour on them.”