[s-cars] NAC - Why is manual and full-time 4wd or AWD mutuallyexclusive in SUVs

[Taka Mizutani]

Totally forgot about the FJ Cruiser.

Why would you want a Torsen center diff for an off-road vehicle? I'd want a
locker on every diff.

Now if they didn't make the thing so fugly and more true to the original
FJ-40, it would be good. The sightlines out of the FJ are horrible.

Also, they don't offer a diesel in the States.

Taka


On 6/26/07, Varon H. Fugman <vfugman at globaldialog.com> wrote:
>
> >>Am I only one who wants a manual and on-dry-road 4wd?
> >>Is there some vehicle I'm missing?
>
> The Toyota FJ Cruiser runs counter to typical configurations:
>
> The 6-speed manual comes with full-time AWD.
> The 5-speed automatic has only part-time 4WD.
>
> Only problem could be actually finding a manual... and the slightly lower
> gas mileage... 19mpg hwy for the manual, 21mpg for automatic.
>
> The FJ Cruiser is an interesting mixup of mostly 4Runner parts with a few
> non-US LandCruiser bits thrown in.  They did focus quite a bit on giving
> it
> serious off-road capabilities.  And IIRC, the center diff on the AWD model
> is a Torsen... what more could you want?
>
> Varon
> '95 urS6
>
>
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