Updated: For your entertainment…I bring you my stupidity. But it was fun!

[purdyd]

I remember about 25 years ago seeing and add for a Lexus(?). You had the option for traditional ICE, or for about $15K more, a hybrid. That hybrid gained about 3 MPG. At gas prices back then, you would never recoup the additional costs.

The Taco is not a hybrid like a Prius or a Rav4, which spring to mind since we own them. I guess it is sort of the the answer to not having a V6 in the Taco lineup. Although it also does help with city driving mpg with storing some of the braking energy.

The Rav4 gets 40 mpg and the prius 55 mpg. Both of which use Atkinson cycle engines which are more efficient.

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[Flats]

I might need to try that out. I have a 16,500lb kinetic rope and some soft shackles that did pretty well so far. I was going to use it on that wrangler but some guy was convinced his “snatch strap” was better. It did the job I suppose.

"Snatch strap" is something of an oxymoron. Most straps deliberately have very minimal stretch and are meant to be gradually loaded. Nothing wrong with using his strap but using one to snatch instead of a gradual pull can lead to some spectacular results, and not in a good way.

 

[freakshow999]

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[Lion77]

Took it to Bogue Chitto ATV Park near Franklinton, LA. It’s a pretty large area with lots of different trails, mud and sand. Be careful though, some of the trails were certainly more for ATV use as I ended up having to back track the truck out of one of them because it got so narrow on it.

That's one reason I got a FourTrax Rubicon instead of a used SxS to complement the Raptor. The SxS's are so much wider than an ATV, they won't fit on 90% of the ATV trails in our area. The majority of the OHV parks are for ATV and Dirt Bikes only due to trail widths. Some have areas that fit SxS, but most of those also fit full sized vehicles anyway.

I really like the RR for the majority of use cases. It's great for touring out of state on family trips, it does all the boring truck stuff, it's fun to hoon around with on back roads as it has enough power to check the "sport utility" box @ 455 HP, it's really fun to drive a higher speed off-road (can't wait for Silver Lake this August! Already did some drifting around a relative's farm field), and even great for just going out on errands or date night with the wife because I can actually fit it in a normal parking spot lol.

Overall, if I could have only one vehicle aside from fuel costs, it would be the RR because it's really good for a wide variety of stuff and just fun to drive in general, but you're not giving up on practicality either. My Mazda 3 Carbon is my daily driver, the wife has her CX-50, the RR is my "hot Rod Rally Truck" that does double duty as a family hauler for less mundane activities.

Dedicated Trail SUV: JK Rubicon hands down. Easy to do suspension mods, narrower track width and excellent articulation just make the Jeep JK's hard to beat on a trail.

All Around Sport UTV: RR no question. It's fast, agile (for a 5,400 lb truck), jumps well, handles impacts well, has all the 4x4 tools you need in an off-road Baja pickup truck, and it does just about all the normal truck things well too!

Non-Road Legal UTV: ATV in my opinion is the most overall versatile. Plenty small enough to drive through the woods, easy to fix, doesn't use much gas, can tow 1,300 lbs, easy to trailer to UTV parks, can drive it around my 1/2-acre urban property in summer and very low maintenance, plus if I need to I can fit it in a truck bed.

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