Didn’t we have 3 or 4 posts up there about lack of stability in crosswinds, and then one about how suspension mods might improve the situation? I thought the “interesting handling” was pretty well established, and beyond arguing - but where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Let’s just agree that nobody will mistake a transporter for a 911 in a double-blind test.
I do, however take it back about never having driven a stock transporter - I remembered that I did drive a splitty full of orphans at a mission in Brazil 20 years back. The handling of that one in the mud bog impersonating a road was roughly similar to mine here in the snow - which is to say, “it was a hoot”. I cannot attest to the prowess of either one on good roads since there really aren’t any here, and weren’t any there. Again, I doubt anybody would mistake it for anything other than what it is.
I don’t feel like Hurley Haywood driving it, or like an OTR trucker. I feel like a Shriner clown trying not to lose my legs.
… and that gets to the part of the story where we talk about the safety of any of them (stock or modified). My son-in-law accurately noted that everything from his knees down was the crumple-zone of the thing. Not “in the crumple-zone”, the actual soft pink parts that would for sure be crumpled - almost as if is was by design.
The carrying capacity (for the comically small outside dimensions of the thing) is otherworldly, but it very much seems like any other design goals the Sainted German Engineers may have hoped to incorporate went out the window in the service of making more space. I’m not sure that “safety” was ever a consideration, even from the beginning.
Looks like someone is taking their pet 'fruit bat' for a ride in this stroller...LOL
