ResGuy68 wrote:

I don't believe the US market carries any penalties or thresholds due to weight (correct me if in wrong). There would be small deficiency penalties tied to resultant lower MPGs. However, these penalties are generally very small in the US under CAFE.

As a general statement, the 4 door variants of the bronco, 4runner and Wrangler are all at or a hair below 5k lbs. It makes sense that this vehicle would weigh more given the size and design drivers. However, an incremental 1000 lbs does seem high.

Supacat wrote:

It looks to be an odd place for branding on the vehicle itself ~ you'd have to be knocking a pedestrian off their legs and onto your bonnet for them to see it clearly. So my surmise would be that whatever it is, it's detachable; and the branding works whilst it's away from the vehicle?

Bluest wrote:

I think that’s that’s still the lash up prototype interior.

It's certainly very similar:


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ChasingOurTrunks wrote:

I think weight might matter, but I'm certainly not an expert at all -- the CAFE standards are very complex and use a "fleet wide footprint" calculation to figure this out; the weight of the vehicle does play into whether a vehicle is classified as a "car" or "light truck", or. "medium" or "heavy duty", and each category has it's own emissions target that makes them OK, but that has to be taken into consideration of the whole fleet (For instance, you can offset HD Diesels with electric cars). I think that is likely to the challenge for Ineos more than the weight - depending on how this thing gets classified, it may or may not hit emissions targets for that category, and Ineos has nothing else in their fleet to offset it.