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[-] Salvo@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Not to mention heavy!

My little Jimny has a (comparatively) high grille and it will do some nasty damage to anyone who I neglect to see, but it only has 1200kg of mass. Still enough make people have a bad day and not the most ergonomic thing to lean against when it is moving. The Driver Assistance Systems are not great, but enough to stop me from making too many stupid mistakes.

These huge American behemoths weigh 3-4 times as much, have even worse visibility and the nose is shaped like a giant tenderising mallet. The driver assistance systems are just as bad, but meet a checklist of features that give the drivers as false sense of complacency and ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from AMCAP.

this post was submitted on 10 May 2025
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