I would love a backup camera. In so many cars of this era it’s very hard to see out the back window, including my ’08 Civic. The general lack of visibility drives me nuts. I’d rather instead of various cameras and warnings, that the feds would mandate visibility. That would make driving more of a pleasure, as well as increasing safety.
My Highlander has a “descent control” feature to allow the ABS to hold a vehicle on a slippery slope but it can only be activated under 20 mph. I have used it in winter conditions and it works well on (as an example) the county road that my school is located on that slopes down and empties out onto a state highway.
The interiors of the preproduction trucks we drove seemed to be standard Chevy fare. Nothing to complain about, but nothing new and special either. Except for this: Both new trucks we drove (the 5.3-liter V8 and 2.7-liter turbo models) were dramatically quieter in the cabin than the current model. Trim, fit, and finish, as well as the infotainment system, all seemed pretty standard. That may change as Chevy continues to roll out the 2019 Silverado in stages, however, and we were there to experience the engines, not evaluate the speakers.
Tom is an automotive enthusiast from the New York City area and has worked in the car media industry doing both video and writing work. He spent most of his early career working with an automotive based YouTube channel and has since expanded his horizons into other digital industries.
5) Finally I understand and sympathize with your dearly held belief that the availability of ‘cheap’ vehicles is a necessity for the working poor, etc. And agree to a degree. However removing all controls is akin to agreeing to the landlords/slumlords who opposed Building Code, Fire Code, etc controls over their boarding houses, flop houses etc. These landlords claimed that these ‘people’ needed a place to live/sleep and that imposing standards would increase the costs. However, is it better to allow the landlords to profit, while people lived in dangerous conditions? Isn’t a societal change and government initiatives such as co-op housing, government backed mortgages, etc a better solution? The post WWII suburban building ‘boom’ in the USA and Canada was largely the result of government action such as the G.I Bill and government backed mortgages. My family and nearly every family in our new subdivision had a 25 year mortgage at a fixed rate of just over 2%, backed by our government. In Canada the vast majority of immigrants dwell in the major urban centres. Each of these centres have relatively safe public transit systems. They also have car sharing organizations, Uber and licensed taxis. Using these in many cases is much less expensive than purchasing, maintaining, insuring, fueling and paying for the parking of a vehicle. I have the figures as that is what my eldest child has done since moving ‘into the city’ despite my offer to transfer to her for ‘free’ one of our vehicles. So the provision of and public funding of a safe, efficient and reliable public transit system in many (if not most) cases replaces the ‘need’ to own a vehicle. And large SUV’s and pick-ups are generally too expensive, too large and totally impractical for these urban dwellers and their families. Therefore when they own/buy they are generally relegated to ‘small/compact’ cars,Corollas, Civic, Elantras, Accents, and Versas being extremely popular. To paraphrase an old car commercial “should safe cars only be available to the rich?”. I believe that all passenger vehicles should be manufactured to relevant safety standards and thankfully to a large degree this is true. None of the vehicles mentioned if maintained would be considered a ‘deathtrap’.
In all seriousness if you want to decrease the cost of autos, why not market an updated Studebaker Scotsman? Put in the least expensive 100 hp engine, zero sound deadening, zero carpeting, no headliner, manual door locks, manual windows, no power steering, no A/C, vinyl seating, no radio, no USB/electrical ports, rear drum brakes. That should make it far less expensive and according to the logic of at least a few of our posters ‘sell like hotcakes’.
Plus, I know that, as of August 2016, my air conditioner worked thanks to a control switch repair. This is great, because I hadn’t even tried my AC:
This map, produced by Deutz, shows the different emissions regulations that are in place around the world
On a short and admittedly wimpy off-road section—the original location was unexpectedly graded smooth ahead of the trip—the AT4 barely broke a sweat, especially with the Traction Select System doing its thing. A suite of cameras showed the truck’s surroundings on the infotainment screen—very handy when you’ve nosed your way up a crest and can only see sky out the windshield, because the camera shows you what’s on the other side—including a birds-eye view for narrow trails.
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, one percent of all crashes are due to rollovers but a third of passenger receives injuries. Cheat Sheets has also reported that Chevy Chevrolet Colorado has a 22 %chance of rolling over, and of course the Silverado could not be left out of this section either.
Between the videos and the stories shared online, I’ve found a total of seven accounts of Chevrolet Colorado side curtain airbags deploying in moderate off-road conditions. Plus, in the time it took me to type this story, another apparent owner wrote a complaint on the GM-Trucks messaging board about side airbags allegedly deploying during a U-turn.
This takes care of the advantages. Now, we’ll move to the down sides of this gearbox. The biggest detriment, and the item that most often gets the blame for 700R4’s being disabled on the roadside, is the dreaded TV cable. The 700R4 uses a cable that connects the throttle linkage to the transmission’s throttle valve (TV) in the valvebody.
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