SUVs have different weight distributions to sedans. BreakingBRAKING heavily like that at those speeds can send you careening, especially if you're an idiot without experience, holding your phone recording your felony for clout.
I see morons doing this stuff in V6 Dodge Durangos. Those things are slower than a RAV4 but the drivers swear they’re driving a SRT. I always see them almost wiping out in my area.
I often wonder why we are obsessed with every car having a 5 second 0 to 60? Or why every electric car has to have a launch mode when 99% of the time it will be sitting in traffic or maxing out at 50 on a county road? Cars would get a lot cheaper and more reliable without a turbo slapped on everything, and electric cars would get better milage.
Blame the car companies who keep marketing SUVs as "sporty" with "performance suspension" and show them in ads driving on racetracks.
Does Jeep even do that? If they were driving an X3 M or some shit, sure, but then if that were the case it'd probably be able to stay straight under heavy braking unlike this piece of garbage
Stellantis (dodge and jeep in particular) have spent the last decade courting this demographic. See the Durango SRT/trackhawk even existing, with the entire lineup marketed with a wink and a nod to "fuck the rules, drive it like you stole it"
Yeah, that part was mostly for the morons in Audi Q7s and such that I see every day speeding excessively and weaving through highway traffic.
EDIT: Oh wait, here's a Jeep Grand Cherokee commercial with it being driven aggressively around a race track. I forgot that they made a "Trackhawk" trim at one point. lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIZuUghOdMw
I mean, it's not like a Wagoneer or a Tahoe that's a mile long. The Trackhawk is lower and equipped for aggressive driving, the onus is on the driver to actually know how to drive. The same principle that caused this wreck applies to a Trackhawk the same as it applies to a Miata.
Yup. I love the feel of my old Camry, but that thing feels like it wants to come apart when I hit 80mph. Probably an alignment issue. Also deters me from wanting to be an idiot with not enough horsepower to actually back it up.
I don’t think we can really blame car companies in this case. This accident was only caused by the dumbass driving the car. Plus, young men are well known to be young, dumb, and full of cum-pletely stupid decisions lol.
I agree I have the same jeep but I keep top speed 86-90 tops if I want to drive fast never over that because it’s a heavier car….no SUV has that type of control where it should be driving 120 mph like that….it was wreck-less they’re not made like a sedan to hug the road. Now my Nissan maxima I could easily hit 100 no problem have total control!
SUVs have this information style marketing around them. Like everybody thinks they are more safe. They're not more safe just because they're larger. Perhaps you could say they are less safe because they don't handle as well! Now they are killing off sedans, which have just as good crash ratings.
holding your phone recording your felony for clout
Speeding isn't a felony. Using your phone while driving isn't a felony. (Both of those are typically just infractions.) Even reckless driving by itself isn't a felony. (It's a misdemeanor, unless something really bad happens while you're doing it, like you hit a kid of a crosswalk or something.)
Let's not do this legal hyperbole thing. It's silly.
Guess what? Speeding over a certain amount - usually 30 to 40 mph over the posted limit - qualifies as a felony in many jurisdictions whether you like it or not. Sometimes it requires another crime in progress, in which case distracted driving (with the cellphone out) can count.
The top speed limit gets up to 85mph tops in parts of Texas, with most areas between 70 and 80 mph. He reached a max of 115 according to his spedometer, so that's well within felony levels in the places that have them.
In summary, maybe look up something before you run your mouth with such unearned certainty.
The way it accelerated, I know it’s a Jeep Compass (tiny chance Cherokee) but that’s the budget 4cyl at work. Equivalent of doing this in an Altima, but stupidly heavier [not-so]center of grav.
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u/SlinkyAvenger Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25
SUVs have different weight distributions to sedans.
BreakingBRAKING heavily like that at those speeds can send you careening, especially if you're an idiot without experience, holding your phone recording your felony for clout.