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    Suzuki Equator Goes For A Snowy Drive...In California

    Chicago Auto Show: Suzuki Equator Breaks Cover, Ready To Carry Your ATV's And Tow Your Boats
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/18/08

    In reply to Suzuki Equator Goes For A Snowy Drive...In California
    That's a pretty cool Jeep, I hope they bring it to market soon.


    What's that funny-looking giant-grilled pickup next to it? Pfeh, whatever it is, I'll take the Jeep. Hope they bring back the 4.0.

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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    12/18/08

    In reply to Suzuki Equator Goes For A Snowy Drive...In California
    yes it snows. and its stupid cold too.


    anyhow im more interested in the wide track jeep next to that... thing

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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/18/08

    In reply to Suzuki Equator Goes For A Snowy Drive...In California
    In a blinding flash of the obvious, the Rapidly Shrinking 2.5 have decided to axe superfluous brands (but paradoxically not GMC) and reduce badgineering. In the face of that, Suzuki boldly steps out with...a Titan! -er, the Equator!


    Way to go, Suzuki. As if you weren't irrelevant enough.

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    12/18/08

    @Elhigh: The vast majority of owners of Suzuki's other products (bikes and quads) use a compact pickup to haul them around.


    Like, they go from the Toyota dealer over to the Suzuki dealer to fill the bed.


    They're looking for a cut of that action...not to mention I'd imagine there are going to be some decent bike + truck package deals going on.

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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/18/08

    @Mad_Science: In the same way that I don't think of Suzuki when I think of motorcycles, neither do I think of Suzuki when I think of trucks.


    For bikes, I'll order up a Honda, Yamaha or if I can find it, a nicely restored Cushman. For trucks, a good used International, assuming the truck in the driveway isn't dead. And in neither case will there be a bike in the bed of the truck - that's a waste of both.

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    Image of POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION
    12/18/08

    In reply to Suzuki Equator Goes For A Snowy Drive...In California
    Maybe Suzuki should bring the Equator up to Toronto,

    between now and Sunday we're expecting 25 or more inches.


    Yay.

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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    12/18/08

    @POLAЯ CLAUS IS COMING TO JALOPTOWN: Or Edmonton. Not really much snow, but when it's -35C, it doesn't matter one bit how much snow you have. Even bare roads have no traction, and studded tires ain't gonna do you a lick of good.
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    Image of WheatKing WheatKing
    12/18/08

    @Deartháir and his eight little drained beers: You have cars in edmonton? being from the GTA (you know the only part of canada that matters, next to quebec) we thought you still ran around in covered wagons during the summer, and with dogs and sleds in the winter, and wrestled oil from the ground with your cold bare hands and squeezed it out of the sand into barrels.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    12/18/08

    @WheatKing: You behave yourself, or we'll stop sending any of that oil -- or money; how do you like being a "have not" province? -- your direction. Remember, the GTA ceased to be even remotely relevant a few years ago.
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    12/18/08

    In reply to Suzuki Equator Goes For A Snowy Drive...In California
    Yup, gazing out of my office window at the beautiful snow-capped San Gabriels. Might take the kids up to Kratka Ridge for some sledding this weekend. Or maybe we'll go blading at the beach? LA is a wonderful place.
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    12/18/08

    In reply to Suzuki Equator Goes For A Snowy Drive...In California
    Sounds like another case of Coastal California completely ignoring Most of California :D


    Maybe I'm just weird, but when I think of California, I think of the Sierra or high desert before the coast.

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    12/18/08

    In reply to Suzuki Equator Goes For A Snowy Drive...In California
    In fairness, the Nissan Frontier, which the Equator's based on is basically what the Tacoma used to be, before they decided it needed to be 7/8ths of a full size truck.


    Also: yes, it snows in California. We have mountains.

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    Image of blondnga blondnga
    12/18/08

    In reply to Suzuki Equator Goes For A Snowy Drive...In California
    california has mountains...it snows in the mountains...this isn't news. Even the governor is shown skiing with his nympho wife on the mountains of california. and crazy weather is a sure sign of global warming. gees.
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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    12/18/08

    @blondnga: If she's such a nympho, why aren't I banging her already?


    On a more relevant note, as a SoCal resident, I'm shocked it snowed in fucking VICTORVILLE.

    VICTORVILLE for fuck's sake!

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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    12/18/08

    @Plecostomus - Now with 20% more Algae!: Victorville is high desert. The last time I played in snow was there a few years ago.
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    Image of Rust-MyEnemy Rust-MyEnemy
    12/18/08

    In reply to Suzuki Equator Goes For A Snowy Drive...In California
    All this snow laying around...


    Methinks John Z Delorean is heading back to handle the carcopalypse his way.

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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    12/18/08

    In reply to Suzuki Equator Goes For A Snowy Drive...In California
    Tested in the parching heat of Scandanavia, the frigid air of Hawaii, the treacherous snows of California and the torrential downpours of the Sahara, the new Suzuki Equator is the perfect pickup for a world gone mad.


    Suzuki:

    SHIFT_Badge Engineering.

    SHIFT_Climate.

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    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    12/18/08

    In reply to Suzuki Equator Goes For A Snowy Drive...In California
    There needs to be a single word to describe half-assed rebadging of mediocre vehicles like this one.


    I submit "Rebarbage", a combination of "rebadge" and "garbage", for your consideration.

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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    12/18/08

    @Cognitive_Friction has a STAR!: I'm stealing that. "Rebarbage" is perfect.
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    Image of ☠Grяrяrяrяrя, portrait of a chickenwolfmoosepig. ☠Grяrяrяrяrя, portrait of a chickenwolfmoosepig.
    12/18/08

    @Cognitive_Friction has a STAR!: Or "Rebarbadge" (with a "D") or maybe just "Barbadge" for short?


    I've seen lists of new compound slang words elsewhere...methinks we need one for Jalopnik.

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    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    12/19/08

    @☠Grяrяrяrяrяrяrя. You'll shoot your eye out with that thin...: Amendment accepted, the word is now "rebarbadge".
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    12/18/08

    In reply to Suzuki Equator Goes For A Snowy Drive...In California
    That's actually a respectable skiff of snow! Well done, California, you've earned your stripes!
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    Image of deftonesboy360 deftonesboy360
    12/18/08

    @Deartháir and his eight little drained beers: These little places you may have heard of, called Lake Tahoe and Big Bear, they are world renowned for skiing I hear. Maybe you should check out their 10 ft of snow sometime.
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    Image of Rust-MyEnemy Rust-MyEnemy
    12/18/08

    @deftonesboy360: Scramble the sarcasm 'copter!!!
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    12/18/08

    @deftonesboy360: 10 ft is respectable. That's pretty much what a usual winter looked like where I grew up. And yes, I think your sarcasm detector's batteries may be low. They usually take 4 AA's.
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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    12/18/08

    In reply to Suzuki Equator Goes For A Snowy Drive...In California
    I know, the Donner Party found all that snow in California to be a surprise too.
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    Image of LoganSix LoganSix
    12/18/08

    @LTDScott changed his name!: Had to verify it, but they didn't make it past Nevada.
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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    12/18/08

    @LoganSix: While you are technically correct, Donner Pass is in CA, barely.


    [en.wikipedia.org]

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    12/18/08

    @LoganSix: Not true.
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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    12/18/08

    In reply to Suzuki Equator Goes For A Snowy Drive...In California
    "excuse me, can you direct me to Las Vegas international airport?"
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    12/18/08

    In reply to Suzuki Equator Goes For A Snowy Drive...In California
    At the '96 Baltimore Auto Show, me and my Dad pulled into a space in a year-old, LS1-powered Caprice Wagon, and what was in the space next to us? A Wrangler, hilariously stuck in the snow.


    If it's snowing at the Equator, God help us all.

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    Image of pres pres
    12/18/08

    @bmoredlj:


    That would be a LT-1 in that Caprice. Just a little FYI from a barge fan.

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