Got my subwoofer installed in the 75. This JBL Nano is a great addition and fills out the sound nicely given the space. It’s also a nice, small and well constructed enclosure. Also ordered up some green covers for the instrument cluster bulbs and started replacing the ones that were dead or had the covers cooked from years of use.
What did you do on your 70 series today?
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Flew back from the Philippines yesterday and stopped in Los Angeles and San Francisco before returning to Florida.
Visited a friend in Costa Mesa; Diesel prices varied $7.00-7.50 per gallon.
In the San Francisco area the prices varied $7.00-7.89 per gallon.
Here is Jacksonville, FL the prices varied $5.00-5.60 per gallon.
... that's about 1.70€/Liter in European terms.
Here in Germany, the average for diesel is at 2.33 €/Liter (10.21$/gal). And it will go up even more on Monday if Iran doesn't comply to the latest ultimatum and the energy infrastructure gets bombarded as threatened.
I visited a 4x4 fair yesterday, but went by my Korean daily, as the difference in fuel consumption / price was about half (55€) for the distance.
I will be out for Africa until mid May. I wonder what prices will be on my return. Either for the much better, or for the much worse. Fingers crossed some people get it right ..
Cheers Ralf
Over $8/gallon on Guam. $6.21/gallon on base.
Yes, I was just in Palo Alto on business and saw the fuel prices. 100% agree on petrol prices and really like electric cars offered from Rivian, Mercedes, BMW, Toyota etc. Have driven Teslas and found them completely uninspiring to drive. IMO, It was like driving a cheap household appliance around. I know that’s subjective but if I got @Tanner H point correct, it was more about the driving experience versus the fuel savings benefit.
Someday soon I hope a company will be smart enough to build an all-electric truck that has no touchscreen, no computer, no complex offroad systems... Just batteries and electric motors and everything else mechanical. Would buy one in a heartbeat.
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That technology has actually been around for sometime. It has been at least 15yrs since I saw a video about a Japanese guy who built one of these machines for home use. It was small, easy to put in any home. You put your plastics in it and it extracted and spit out kerosene or diesel. He had prototyped it and was not far from bringing it to market. A year later the video was gone and I have not been able to find anything about it since.
Clearly, like other things (new 70-series), "they" don't want us to have it.
Cheers
Check out the Munro from Scotland, I think that's the closest around at the moment:
Munro Vehicles Home
Discover Munro Vehicles, the Scottish manufacturer of high-performance, all-electric 4x4s. Built for demanding environments and a sustainable future. Explore our range and engineering excellence.
www.munro-ev.com
Very different prospect to the American EV start ups, which aim to replicate the Canyanero style of 4x4. This is much more akin to the UMM Alter, original Land Rovers, and original Mercedes G-Wagen/Peugeot/Steyr collaboration, even the 1980s 70 series.
Oh, yea, I've seen this before. I remember being sad that they will likely never be legal in the US, or not for 25 years maybe, sigh. But this is exactly the kind of thing I'm interested in.Check out the Munro from Scotland, I think that's the closest around at the moment:
Munro Vehicles Home
Discover Munro Vehicles, the Scottish manufacturer of high-performance, all-electric 4x4s. Built for demanding environments and a sustainable future. Explore our range and engineering excellence.
Very different prospect to the American EV start ups, which aim to replicate the Canyanero style of 4x4. This is much more akin to the UMM Alter, original Land Rovers, and original Mercedes G-Wagen/Peugeot/Steyr collaboration, even the 1980s 70 series.
isnt that what the Slate is? or is it only 4x2?
ive always been impressed witrh JBL's sound, especially when you consider the price point most of it comes in at.
and in case you didnt see them, you can get green covers for the smaller bulbs too
Slate isn't 4x4 as far as I've seen. Also super small, definitely doesn't have solid axles or other heavy-duty build quality. But I like the idea of the truck a lot. Just wish it was made for more than grocery hauling.
now your cheating, you didnt say it had to make a hummer look small, you didnt say it needed to smoke a Tesla plaid and you didnt say it had to have traction a D9 dozer would be jealous of.
Mine needs a complete refresh as well. I’ve found some cracks/hits on my top that will need fixed.
Oh diesel here is $4.39/gal so I can’t complain too much
I would like to have my Toyota 78 electric, but battery tech is non there yet !
Once I can have a decent range 1000/1500 km I will start thinking
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Check out the Munro from Scotland, I think that's the closest around at the moment:
Munro Vehicles Home
Discover Munro Vehicles, the Scottish manufacturer of high-performance, all-electric 4x4s. Built for demanding environments and a sustainable future. Explore our range and engineering excellence.
Very different prospect to the American EV start ups, which aim to replicate the Canyanero style of 4x4. This is much more akin to the UMM Alter, original Land Rovers, and original Mercedes G-Wagen/Peugeot/Steyr collaboration, even the 1980s 70 series.
I was literally just bs’ing with a guy in my shop about these Munro trucks. I have never heard of them so funny to log on here and see your post.
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I know I camped in the bottom of Robinson Hole February 14th! We were able to do the whole 28 mile trail too.
It’s going to be a different kind of summer for sure.
Cheers
