A Porsche with green touches means the SUV is a plug-in hybrid.
The exact name is “Acid Green,” and is found on the badges, callipers, and instrument cluster.
To be clear, this is not an endorsement of hybrids, I just think the green is sharp.
Read my column Down with Hybrids for why.
(Photo credit above: Mike Schlee)
They’re actually quite pricey:
Average dummy – $40 – 60,000
Dummy with data acquisition – $250,000
Side crash dummy – $660,000 (most expensive)
That’s why components are swapped out instead of the entire dummy. Ribs break the most often, and are a $15,000 to replace.
Above is just the skeleton.
Below are kid dummies.
The aforementioned data acquisition and biofeedback devices. They track 40 data points in total.
It measures things like neck and brain injuries, head acceleration and velocity.
The one thing a dummy cannot simulate is how a human tenses up just before a crash.
Ideally you don’t do that, relaxed musles fare better upon impact; that’s why a drunk driver often sustains a crash better than a sober one.
Into the cabin he goes to be crashed.
The dummy is covered in grease paint to document what hit where.
This is his face hitting the steering wheel airbag.
Spotted at the IIHS during my recent trip with Subaru.
Over the weekend I cracked a beer, then walked out to my driveway to hang out with This Week’s Car – 2015 Jaguar XJ AWD.
Far from the first time I’ve done this, but first time I’ve told you. When I lived in a condo in Toronto, I’d elevator down and sit in the drivers seat, ahh the new car smell, pushing buttons and daydreaming… “my blog is producing weekly cars, and this one hit six figures, I’m looking at $100,000 in my driveway.”
Guys it’s working… please keep reading, and I’ll keep blogging, then more cool stuff will happen like, next week we’re off on this exclusive auto trip… and remember my blog epiphany, this car week kind’ve confirmed it, so thank you Jaguar for betting on KeriBlog.com… and get ready for the biggest KB.com announcement to date.
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Cheers to that.
Full review post coming soon.
Speaking with an audio expert if it’s worth it to buy the audio system upgrade, how a siren will pierce through the cabin filled with music, can your ears really bleed, and the dumbest thing someone’s asked him to install.
Read it online at Autonet.
A siren’s frequency, around 2,000 hertz (Hz), is what pierces through my music, ensuring it is heard.
For a barometer of how loud stuff is, click here.
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Back to ‘Keri on Driving’ – Index
It does – took it on some country dirt roads, then above is when I valeted it at the Hazelton Hotel HAHA
(non-Toronto residents: that’s one of the city’s fanciest hotels.)
2015 Ford Expedition – Platinum Trim
3.5 L V6 engine
6-speed automatic transmission
365 hp
420 lb.ft
Starting at $49,999
This one $70,949
Everything in this centre console can be operated while wearing work gloves.
Had to go downtown twice that week, and once during Friday afternoon rush hour traffic at that.
I thought it’d be cumbersome to be in a 20″-wheeled mega machine, but it proved opposite and I had that thing flying around. Handling was direct, then add in all the torque, so when a fast move is needed, it can do it.
Finding parking wasn’t as tough as I thought it’d be either. Above is a tiny downtown side street.
Features include: plenty of USB ports, rear seats are heated and enjoy dedicated climate controls, wood trim and perforated front seats that can both cool and heat, and rain-sensing wipers.
This Platinum trim is equipped with both a rear-view camera and a reversense sensing system, but I barely used either, the sight lines were clear.
Ford does utilitarian really well. And because I’ll choose function over fashion every time, I’m into it #FunctionalLuxury
Also into power running boards.
I love being the biggest thing on the road, love the dichotomy, like how this Expedition can seat 8, and instead it was all for troll-doll-sized me.
But getting to drive something so large doesn’t happen often, so the novelty may be influencing my opinion, you should know this. That’s why auto journalists are separated into two groups – one does cars, the other specializes in giant vehicles and heavy-duty trucks.
