Large, heavy vehicles with high hoods and poor visibility are incredibly dangerous. Even people who drive them will admit that if they hit someone, that person would probably die. At the same time, though, people are selfish and want to look out for their families first. If they’re going to be in a wreck, they want to make sure the people inside their Pedestrian Crusher 9000 are as safe as possible. Except bigger doesn’t actually mean safer, as new research from the Insurance Institute for
It’s interesting, isn’t it? Cheaper than a new SUV, small enough to park in a one-car garage, runs on regular gasoline, relatively easy to make street-legal in most jurisdictions, and common enough that getting spare parts should at least be possible. Not a lot of passenger space, but definitely enough power to be useful as a towing vehicle if you want, and obviously fantastic off-road capability, even amphibious versions.
Of course it’s like 5mpg, worse than an old steel-body coupe.
Better than Hummer.
Street legal tanks? U mad