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Waving at other Jeeps has been stupid and pointless since the 4 door wrangler came out......you know its true
Especially trying to do it here in CO where every other vehicle is a damn Jeep. I just don't anymore. Pretend I waved and move along please.
 

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When you factor in the "lift," the wheels and tires, and the gears, the XR package is simply a steal.
This brings up my unpopular Jeep opinion: Unless you're actually towing, automatic is the wrong transmission for any wrangler or gladiator. Frankly it's the wrong transmission for a lot of vehicles sold today. The fact that the car with the highest percentage of manual sales is the Miata which has a wide double digit lead over any mustang, camaro, or challenger, and the corvette, supra, and 911 aren't even sold manual anymore should be considered a failure to teach our children the joys of driving.
 
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This brings up my unpopular Jeep opinion: Unless you're actually towing, manual is the wrong transmission for any wrangler or gladiator. Frankly it's the wrong transmission for a lot of vehicles sold today. The fact that the car with the highest percentage of manual sales is the Miata which has a wide double digit lead over any mustang, camaro, or challenger, and the corvette, supra, and 911 aren't even sold manual anymore should be considered a failure to teach our children the joys of driving.
The Supra actually just got a manual and many 911 trims have one, just not all. The supra ADDED a manual a few months ago.

All of these 911 trims are available with manual (I filtered it)
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My unpopular opinion is that most people are uploading huge images which are greatly slowing down the forum. Could we all please resize to screen size before posting?
But we all have different screen resolutions. On a 4k screen, resize to screen is considerably larger than on 1920x1080.
 

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My first unpopular opinion was so popular. It got removed. So here's my second one.

Fenders. Why do people replace the fenders with stubby one's? I like coverage over the tire to keep rocks and mud down. Nothing like breaking the windshield in the car behind you and having to pay for it.
 

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My first unpopular opinion was so popular. It got removed. So here's my second one.

Fenders. Why do people replace the fenders with stubby one's? I like coverage over the tire to keep rocks and mud down. Nothing like breaking the windshield in the car behind you and having to pay for it.
Better yet, nothing like breaking your own windshield as your tire flings a rock up and forward and you drive right into it.
 

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This brings up my unpopular Jeep opinion: Unless you're actually towing, manual is the wrong transmission for any wrangler or gladiator. Frankly it's the wrong transmission for a lot of vehicles sold today. The fact that the car with the highest percentage of manual sales is the Miata which has a wide double digit lead over any mustang, camaro, or challenger, and the corvette, supra, and 911 aren't even sold manual anymore should be considered a failure to teach our children the joys of driving.
I support this opinion 100%
 

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But we all have different screen resolutions. On a 4k screen, resize to screen is considerably larger than on 1920x1080.
This is a case where "size doesn't always matter"
The FILE size is what slows things down, The display size is not necessarily connected to the file size.
Reduce the resolution the number of pixels, or when saving you don't need to make it photographic quality. Computer and phone screens can only display so many pixels.
Anything for the web can be really stripped down and still be great viewing - it just won't print like a photo on a photo printer.
I can make 2 filles that will display the same "size" on your screen, but be very different in file size - and that's what slows things down. We don't need pictures of a file size 1 meg or bigger - that sort of quality won't matter on a screen.
 

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This is a case where "size doesn't always matter"
The FILE size is what slows things down, The display size is not necessarily connected to the file size.
Reduce the resolution the number of pixels, or when saving you don't need to make it photographic quality. Computer and phone screens can only display so many pixels.
Anything for the web can be really stripped down and still be great viewing - it just won't print like a photo on a photo printer.
I can make 2 filles that will display the same "size" on your screen, but be very different in file size - and that's what slows things down. We don't need pictures of a file size 1 meg or bigger - that sort of quality won't matter on a screen.
It does if we're reducing to screen resolution, because screen size is inherently linked to the pixels displayed at one time. My phone display is 3216x1440, so when I screenshot, that's how big the resulting image is. This site offers no way to reduce that size when doing a mobile upload. What I'm getting at is many of us are on mobile. No way to manipulate upload size. So screenshots will be in full resolution, without using some kind of 3rd party app.

And for those of us on mobile uploading photographs, rather than screenshots, it's even worse. Most smartphone cameras these days are 40-50 megapixels or more, with no interface here to reduce that size. Other forums I've been on have offered a tool to reduce file quality. That doesn't seem to exist on this site, so it'll require a third party app. I've literally never accessed this site from a pc. So the tools/interface might very well be different there.

But I also don't have any slowness on this site. That's where gigabit internet speed is helpful. I've never noticed any lag here.
 
 







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