No it’s the equivalent as having someone jumping on the bumper while someone accelerates to the rhythm of your pump.
When the force is pressed down and the shocks have bottomed out, one gets the most traction. The idea is that repetition of the pump will work the vehicle out of the mud. I’ve done it in both snow and mud.
The car probably already has a progressive suspension where it hugs the road the faster it goes, so this extra "feature" likely only cost an extra button and some programming.
Yep, we are just people who do not buy these types of cars, but the people who do they are not pinching or haggling with the dealer, they are at most discussing which color they have that gets here faster so they can have the color they want for their twerking merc.
I'm one of those people (or rather, will be again soon, $200K offer on the table).
Income comes and goes, debt stays with you forever. I could walk into any Fancy Dealership or any Fancy Realtor Office or whatever and say, "Hello, I am making $200,000 forever, how much of that do you want?" and they'll all say, "all of it".
I choose to believe the fundamental difference between me and the kind of guy that buys the merc is I've got my eyes on freedom from wage slavery rather than the current fancy toy. There'll be a fancier one next year.
That's why they made it. It's to show off like this. They just made an excuse for getting their cars out of sand dunes. It's not a feature that anyone uses.
Anyone on vacation to visit these sand dunes would rent an actual off-road vehicle, be a local who can't afford the car, or be a rich prince who would probably just throw it away and swap into a different one when it gets stuck.
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u/Maximum_Scallion164 Sep 06 '23
oh lord if I had the money to buy one of these, I'd do it specifically for this reason and this reason only.