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Car Forum / Australian Car Forums / 4x4 Cars (Australian group) / February 2004Defining a true Offroad vehicle
Each night I watch heaps of adds on TV for Offroad vehicles showing them beening driven along beaces, through creeks, climbing up side of steep hills followed by beening driving around town. Are they they true Offroad vehicles ???. We all know nearly all the major car makers produce a Offroad vehicle of some kind. To me a True Offroad vehicle are Land Rover, Toyato LandCruiser, Nissan Patrol, and Jeep. Keith My boat is a true offroader in fact on the road it won't go at all, I have to tow it never tried to drive the 4WD in the ocean, not sure how well it would go there, probably the same as my boat on the road it all comes down to how far offroad you think offroad is to some people cutting across a median when the traffic is stopped is offroad Me, my working day is spent on the road, I like to get right away from any road as possible? Kev > Each night I watch heaps of adds on TV for Offroad vehicles > showing them beening driven along beaces, through creeks, climbing up [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Keith i would hardly count most of the jeeps in oz as true offroaders ask any cherakee owner if hes happy about his b pillars cracking under boby twist offroad and see if he reckons its a true offroader the answer you will get is ....i looked under it and could only find 1/2 a chassis rail guess thats why it cracked > Each night I watch heaps of adds on TV for Offroad vehicles > showing them beening driven along beaces, through creeks, climbing up [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Keith > i would hardly count most of the jeeps in oz as true offroaders > ask any cherakee owner if hes happy about his b pillars cracking under boby > twist offroad and see if he reckons its a true offroader > the answer you will get is ....i looked under it and could only find 1/2 a > chassis rail guess thats why it cracked Wrangler is a true offroader IMHO. > Wrangler is a true offroader IMHO. Yup! Nearly always off the road and in bits waiting for parts............... Tony Smith Keith there's no such animal. For some, their Suzi burning down the sand dune is a true offroad vehicle. For others , anything that doesnt break during the Paris to Dakar is a true ORV . Some ORV's never go off the tar, despite their capability. Some of these cost the best part of a small house (in woop woop...well at least the dunny) For me, a true ORV is one that gets me there and back. And "there" is anywhere remote that I care to go, despite the terrain and weather. Cheers Jim > Each night I watch heaps of adds on TV for Offroad vehicles > showing them beening driven along beaces, through creeks, climbing up [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Keith A true offroad vehicle to me is one that can drive over copious amounts of virgin untodden territory and back, with only minimal (or none) repairs to be done upon returning home. Old dirt tracks, albiet rarely used, cannot be classed as offroad. Equinox > Each night I watch heaps of adds on TV for Offroad vehicles > showing them beening driven along beaces, through creeks, climbing up [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Keith > Each night I watch heaps of adds on TV for Offroad vehicles > showing them ..... being driven like I drive a $50.00 wreck round the farm! Would you really buy a new vehicle and waste it like they do!!!! At least in my own back yard I don't have far to walk home when I hit a bloody big rock hidden in the long grass.... Hope this helps, Peter When returning from Portland Roads my wife was commenting that we hadnt seen any Discos or Landrovers. Two minutes later a series 2 Landrover came into view, toddling quietly from boulder to boulder. At the Tip a Suzuki Jimmny thing appeared with 2 young women. And while pushing through bulldust holes so deep I didnt know where they ended a mirage appeared. An EH Holden ! Were these all "true" ORV's ? Nope, but they were all offroad :) However, a bit of rain or really rough track could of seen all of em being recovered by something a little higher and stronger, perhaps something built to withstand 30 billion corros not 100K of them. Something with a chassis to keep it all together. Something with an engine strong enough for 2 vehicles. But that's just my opinion. Ask the Suzi, Landy or EH drivers about what an ORV is and I'd bet they'd say "mine!" :)) Cheers Jim > > Each night I watch heaps of adds on TV for Offroad vehicles > > showing them ..... [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Hope this helps, > Peter > When returning from Portland Roads my wife was commenting that we hadnt seen > any Discos or Landrovers. Two minutes later a series 2 Landrover came into > view, toddling quietly from boulder to boulder. Jim. I was all over Cape York in the late 70s and early 80s in my Series IIA. It wasn't comfortable or pretty but in spite of my hatred for all things Landrover I have to say that no more fell off it and it broke down no more than anything else up there... Remember this was well before the road turned into the veritable highway that it is now. Toyotas survived corrugations on the "beef" road better (fewer thing fell off or broke) but the Landie was the ducks nuts in the land of the Wet Desert and the deep sand of the near tip. My preferred vehicle now for such journeys would be a Bell Jetranger which has to be the ultimate "off road" vehicle. Tony Smith The way they're putting the tar down in places few people have even heard of, it wont be long before the average car will be able to traverse Oz several ways. I owned a series 2 and went to Tibuburra in the 70's with it......once. Great off road, a dog on road. And I had 1000k of tar until I got offroad, so I bought a Tojo. Cheers Jim > > When returning from Portland Roads my wife was commenting that we hadnt > seen [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Tony Smith For me, Suzuki Samurai, always 1987 Suzuki Samurai 1.6 16v Efi Centerforce I Calmini Rockcrawler DL gears Optima Red Calmini 3" lift kit Revolver shackles Lincoln Locker (Rear) 32x11.5x75 BFG Mud Terrain Calmini 2" exhaust system Claudio Leiva Las Vegas, Nevada U.S.A. http://www.4x4.dynu.com/claudio > Each night I watch heaps of adds on TV for Offroad vehicles > showing them beening driven along beaces, through creeks, climbing up [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Keith > Each night I watch heaps of adds on TV for Offroad vehicles > showing them beening driven along beaces, through creeks, climbing up [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Keith A true offroad vehicle?.....something on tracks, like a tank for example. Anything on 4 wheels is just a toy to varyng degrees > A true offroad vehicle?.....something on tracks, like a tank for > example. > Anything on 4 wheels is just a toy to varyng degrees How about one of those Scorpions or a Sniper sitting on tracks? Have never seen a piccy of one of these on tracks yet. Or maybe just any old space-framed tubed buggey sitting on 44's. Go anywhere, with heaps of 'Tread Lightly' behind it. Can sit on 100 klicks an hour if you wanna, over bloody rough terrain. Or maybe something a bit more reasonable, such as an army Bushmaster? Or just a little old Bushie: ( http:\\www.bushy.lookscool.com ) try lookin up a ballistic on google Fig > > A true offroad vehicle?.....something on tracks, like a tank for > > example. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Or just a little old Bushie: ( http:\\www.bushy.lookscool.com ) Were you pissed when you mispelt this whole thing? > Each night I watch heaps of adds on TV for Offroad vehicles >showing them beening driven along beaces, through creeks, climbing up [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Keith Hovercraft? > Each night I watch heaps of adds on TV for Offroad vehicles > showing them beening driven along beaces, through creeks, climbing up [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Keith >Hovercraft? fine on the beach or mud but useless in the dunes useless in the bush >> Each night I watch heaps of adds on TV for Offroad vehicles >> showing them beening driven along beaces, through creeks, climbing up [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> >> Keith Yes, but it is a true "off "road vehicle,... :-) about 100mm "off", I believe, although the skirt may touch the ground on some of them. > >Hovercraft? > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >> > >> Keith |
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