Lucky13
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What car would you get, second hand for £8000/$12800, for a 1000 mile hike through jungle, desert, snow etc...much like a Camel Trophy?
4x4....
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land rover, with a decent driver will go almost anywhere
Colin1
Senior Master Sergeant
Surplus British Army Landrovers can be a good buy.
I don't know what the Defender or the Wolf is like but the ones from my time had a chassis like a mini tank although engines could be brittle. The two afore-mentioned models might have addressed that but British auto-engineering being what it is, I doubt it.
Critical application 4x4 users (ie people who cannot afford to break down eg routes in the Aussie outback) tend to go Japanese. Not hard to see why as they are ultra-reliable.
I don't know what the Defender or the Wolf is like but the ones from my time had a chassis like a mini tank although engines could be brittle. The two afore-mentioned models might have addressed that but British auto-engineering being what it is, I doubt it.
Critical application 4x4 users (ie people who cannot afford to break down eg routes in the Aussie outback) tend to go Japanese. Not hard to see why as they are ultra-reliable.
Njaco
The Pop-Tart Whisperer
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Jeep Scrambler, those things are almost unstoppable.
Vassili Zaitzev
Master Sergeant
My jeep classic is pretty good, the four wheel comes in handy.
B-17engineer
Colonel
I'd agree with the Land Rovers...and Jeep Scrambler..... parents had both at one point...
Ford Explorer's aren't bad.
Ford Explorer's aren't bad.
I would take a Jeep over any of them. But then again I am biased and own nothing but Jeeps.
pbfoot
1st Lieutenant
no doubt in my mind the Toyota Landcruiser
Reporting from northern Darfur for The Times of London, Anthony Loyd wrote:
Known as "night locusts" by their government enemies, the rebels call their conflict the "Land Cruiser war" or "Toyota war" owing to their preferred vehicle of choice for travel and battle. The distances are huge. "It's not uncommon to go, fight and come back having covered 800 kilometres in 24 hours," said General Abu Bakr, 55, one of the JEM's [Justice and Equality Movement] leading commanders, who has spent most of the past six years in the Darfur deserts.
According to Loyd, JEM is "regarded by many foreign diplomats as the only feasible threat to Sudan's military in Darfur."
(In 1984, Time reported on "The Great Toyota War" – the civil war in Chad, where "small groups of Toyota desert vehicles, with 106-mm recoilless rifles mounted at the rear, wheel and charge like cavalry in the vastness of the Sahara.")
Reporting from northern Darfur for The Times of London, Anthony Loyd wrote:
Known as "night locusts" by their government enemies, the rebels call their conflict the "Land Cruiser war" or "Toyota war" owing to their preferred vehicle of choice for travel and battle. The distances are huge. "It's not uncommon to go, fight and come back having covered 800 kilometres in 24 hours," said General Abu Bakr, 55, one of the JEM's [Justice and Equality Movement] leading commanders, who has spent most of the past six years in the Darfur deserts.
According to Loyd, JEM is "regarded by many foreign diplomats as the only feasible threat to Sudan's military in Darfur."
(In 1984, Time reported on "The Great Toyota War" – the civil war in Chad, where "small groups of Toyota desert vehicles, with 106-mm recoilless rifles mounted at the rear, wheel and charge like cavalry in the vastness of the Sahara.")
Coors9
Senior Airman
How about a Black 2010 F-150 FX4. Got her a month ago, The Boston Bruins decal in the back window makes her all the sweeter.
Njaco
The Pop-Tart Whisperer
2010! Nice but I'll still go with the 2 1978 F-250s I once had. Both had 351M v-8s and one had a Dana 70 rear with Detroit lockers and a New Process 4-speed with a granny low, Dana 44 in front and modest 3" lift. Oh and locking hubs. Truck would go anywhere!
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B-17engineer
Colonel
I'm sure the smart car could make it 
109ROAMING
2nd Lieutenant
B-17engineer
Colonel
Njaco
The Pop-Tart Whisperer
109ROAMING
2nd Lieutenant
That TJ belongs to a bloke in Oz just to clarify
Noice CJ Chris !
Noice CJ Chris !
Njaco
The Pop-Tart Whisperer
Still nice! 
109ROAMING
2nd Lieutenant
Yup!
Njaco
The Pop-Tart Whisperer
I think I may do that - start a "Mud Puppy" thread. Show us your truck with dirt on it!
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Lucky13
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You just want to talk dirty Chris, is that all there is with you??? 
