Experience. What you get just after you needed it.
@Tentman Kubota RTV 900 on a trailer behind the ute ( or other side by side off road vehicle )
Dairy farmers must be giving them away down your way.
You know you need one around the estate and at work anyway
Maybe you got the 2wd version and someone had removed a spark plug lead?
I have owned an escudo and a rav, the rav was more powerful more capable more comfortable and just better in every way except having a low box.
Mine towed great, I MERCILESSLY raped it towing my boat,launching in estuaries, taking it on proper fourwheel drive trips with real 4wds and not needing recovering.
Mine cost me one cv boot for maintaince.
I recommend the auto and drive it like its a rental.
"Hunting and fishing" fucking over licenced firearms owners since ages ago.
308Win One chambering to rule them all.
Yeah, sorry @Barefoot messaged me about this already.
Use enough gun
The diff on the Mistral looks like it has come off a truck. I've had mine for nearly 10 years and my only complaint is the fueling off idle is rubbish. Very hard to crawl along smoothly without using brake. Bought it for $4.5k and done about 80k kms in it so pretty cheap motoring.
Experience. What you get just after you needed it.
if you can do it yourself and ive cotemplated it an escudo with a toyota 4afe would almost be the perfect lightweight 4wd
I had a Daihatsu Feroza in Port Hedland went bloody everywhere, shooting Roo,s and Camels, towing the tinnie in and out of Finucane island boat ramp, never got bogged I think they ran a Toyota 1600 cc motor, should have bought it back to N.Z. probably unobtainable now.
Another vote for the Zook, I love mine goes anywhere I point it.
what they lack in power they make up for in low range gearing and lightweightedness.
Mine is a LWB Escudo the only real down side is also there biggest advantage the lightness can make deep water crossings a bit twitchy as they tend to float, but said lightness also means they don't sink in the mud and shingle either.
good ones are getting hard to find now I paid $500 for mine and now you'd probably stuggle to find one under $2k that wasn't rooted.
most on here have seen my pic crossing the main flow of the Rangitata at 102 cumecs so don't discount the zook if you can find a good one
#DANNYCENT
Had Daihatsu Rocky for 4 years great little 4x4 and petrol to boot , sold that for the money I payed for it and bought a 2 door swb nissan mistral ,an extra 20hp claimed with the intercooler supposedly ,made in spain , only replaced fan belt and aternator after 60k, reliable old school 2.7 tdi dont knock em 4x4 on a budget
Most of the 90's Japanese stuff is pretty reliable and cheap as chips.
Was impressed with the Mistral climbing hills with 3 big guys and little me in it. They have a trow-away diesel pump, but the replacement is about the same cost as getting the seals replaced on the serviceable ones of the Terrano.
The first gen RAV is a 90's Toyota, it'll go forever and reasonably peppy. The newer models just seemed to lose the plot with what they came up with initially and just ended up as a bloated car.
Have been in the wee Toyota/Daihatsu models and they were pretty good.
Have been in a few Suzuki's and they seemed a bit low on go on the road but very capable off road.
The Pajeros are pretty good off and on road too. Also reliable.
In a similar vein to the Pajero would be a shorty Bighorn.
Trailering can be a pain. You need lots of space. Tow vehicle, trailer, ramps, space to line up load vehicle. Also increased fuel consumption, though would probably come out about even with the lower fuel economy of the older 4x4's compared to the newer tow vehicle.
There are only three types of people in this world. Those that can count, and those that can't!
I've heard the Jimnys are meant to be quite capable off-road. Short wheelbase and good approach / departure angles. But looks a bit small for my liking and the lack of a diesel powered option's also a negative in my books.
Of the medium SUV's I would suggest the Subaru Forester, 2.5, manual, Duel range box. Son sold a 2006 one last year for about $5k, it was great for shooting on the cut over forestry blocks, could cope with a rough and climbed well. If you where going to drive it to site it's a good option. (No Diff Locks and limited traction control)
If it's something you are looking at towing behind the BT50 then one of these
https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Lis...?id=2374813374
Basically a side by side but using automotive parts not motor bike parts.
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