The sole remaining sport compact pickup truck optimized for street, as opposed to off-road, performance.
For those who don't care about off-road performance there are more comfortable, affordable and entertaining alternatives.
Ford made a point of saying that the changes would not compromise the vehicle's off-road performance.
While future Hummer models will have somewhat less ground clearance and weigh somewhat less, they are being designed with a central goal of "unparalleled off-road performance".
For example, the base H2 has the Suburban's live-axle, coil-spring, five-link rear suspension, upgraded and tuned for off-road performance.
"By what I did to it, I made it better five ways, all for improved off-road performance," Mr. Meyers said.
The eD4 version of the Freelander is the first mainstream car from the company that doesn't have four-wheel drive, a feature usually considered vital for good off-road performance.
Mr. Barnes said Freightliner did not plan to sell anywhere near that many Unimogs, because the company wants to establish a reputation for off-road performance that might suffer if smaller, less expensive models were introduced.
Several manufacturers such as BMW and Kia have been offering versions of their SUVs without all-wheel drive for some time now but that's a step that's been far harder to take for Land Rover and Jeep, which built their reputations on extreme off-road performance.
Even just a year or two ago, it would have been almost unthinkable for Land Rover, which has built its reputation on its cars' outstanding off-road performance to make such a move but the benefits in terms of fuel consumption and emissions have become impossible to ignore.
A review is given of the use of mean maximum pressure (MMP) in specifying off-road performance of vehicles.
