Thread: Budget Family 4WD

I reckon you can't beat the old td27 Terranos for bulletproof reliability and reasonable capability as an off-road hack. My experience is based mainly on buying many $5-7k sort of price range trucks over the years and then driving them to their death as farm hacks. The Terranos have always well outlasted anything else and I don't think we have ever actually killed an engine or anything in the driveline in the three or four we have had. Have killed surf's (petrol and diesel) Bighorns, Pajeros, Couriers, Ferozas, Suzuki's of various breeds etc all with relative ease but the Terranos have all well outlasted what we paid for them. Currently in the process of trying to kill a Mitsi challenger