Comments by "BaltimoreAndOhioRR" (@BaltimoreAndOhioRR) on "The 3rd Generation Toyota 4Runner Is a Great Old-School SUV" video.

That rear spoiler was to direct air across the rear window to keep it clean. 🚙
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@inindian I wonder if he says things like that sometimes just to get comment threads started. He seems to say something wrong about some very common basic part that nearly everyone who ever drove a car would know, let alone someone who's living revolves around cars, on around every 3rd or 4th video. Almost every new car brochure since the '70's for wagons, and in recent times, SUV's, pictures the back of the vehicle and highlights the spoiler for keeping the back window clean. He's HAD to have seen or read that sometime in his life!
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@iangray02 Maybe. I'm not doubting you, but we had Cavaliers in "84 with non-opening rear windows with built-in spoilers directing air over the window to keep dust, mud, and snow from being sucked onto the back window. Sales brochures actually stated it. Toyota could have done it for the exhaust reason, though, I'm not trying to argue. 👍
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@leum9787 Yeah, I understand your point, like he had some questions about a Ferrari, the Lamborghini, and a couple of cars written in a foreign language. That makes sense. But what we're talking about are common sense things, that even advertising and brochures and manuals specifically point out and mention. He once had what I thought was a really weird question about a tape deck function, and I wondered, "how could he possibly NOT know what that's for"? But then I realized his age and figured he's probably never had a car, or anything else, with a tape cassette. Still kinda odd to me, but I can understand that. But a lot of other things, even without actually knowing their function, can be figured out just by thinking about it for a second. I've done that in many of his vids. Sometimes I can assume its function before he even mentions it, and on some more obscure things, I can usually figure out what they do while he's rambling on about them. And I'm not saying this to sound smart, I'm saying it because almost all of them are common sense. I think it's his "schtick" learn about most of the oddities and interesting things about a car, then start talking. When he comes across something he didnt specifically prepare for, he just keeps talking and acts like it's something really unusual. Maybe he does it to make his vids more interesting, maybe to get people to comment and "engage" (a word that YouTube is always talking about to help your channel). I really dont know. I dont hate him for it, nor am I really criticizing him about it, just mentioning it because it seems odd. That's all.
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@fitzmorrispr so why is it on vehicles in which the window diesnt roll down? And why did the 1984 Chevy cavalier sales brochure specifically say it was to clear off the rear window?
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