Riding The Rubicon Trail Of Life: rock crawling

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Who are Jeep's car safety features meant to protect?  The people inside the vehicle or the people outside of it.  Ends up, that depends on where the Jeep is being sold. In a global market, Fiat has to make multiple <a href="http://www.4WD.com" target="_blank" title="4WD is your store for Jeep Parts">Jeep parts</a> for the same Jeep model depending on the country in which the model is going to be sold.  In this episode of <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/04/18/304540007/episode-533-why-cars-from-europe-and-the-us-just-can-t-get-along" target="_blank" title="Planet Money podcast"> Planet Money</a> it explains how car companies around the world hate these varying regulations because they make car manufacturing so much more expensive.  Here's an excerpt.
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Why Soft Hooded European Jeeps Can't Rock Crawl And Why It Is Costing You Money

Who are Jeep's car safety features meant to protect? The people inside the vehicle or the people outside of it. Ends up, that depen...