So am looking at getting a 4x4, particularly for off road obviously. However manufactures have muddied their concepts of this kind of vehicle in the drive for more sales to urban 4x4 buyers.
Low to ground chassis with electric push button 4x4 wheel braking traction control that can't climb a hill and loosin momentum all over the hill each time a wheel looses contact ground force. These have apparently replaced hill climbing gear stick selected low range and get out and manually turn the hub lock for no slip of differential that can climb hills without a breather and clean undies.
Maintaining momentum being the necessary prerequisite in 4x4 off road.
Also it appears looking at videos of Aussies in their new pickups that this new generation has forgotten the Land cruiser and Nissan patrol of olde times. One of note has thousands of followers and hundreds of videos on youtube and fairly recently installed retro fitted rear diff lock to his limited slip diff traction control sensing Landcruiser and commented that it was a great improvement. Why did he not simply buy the one with factory front and rear diff lock perplexes the writer.
So its gonna be a second hand buy as its going to get desecrated and scratched up regardless.
So maybe at this point the list is an older Land cruiser with the factory installed front and rear diff lock, Nissan NP300 retro fitted rear difflock or a Folkswagon Amarok with traction control and optional front and rear difflock.
Toyota Hilux have currently S**t themselves with their Diesel Particle Filter to satisfy Euro regulations causing a good to many of them to puff smoke and go into limp mode or very ironically be fined for too much exhaust emissions. They will no doubt fix this. Its a legacy of them delaying research and development to abide by Euro 4 regs while al the others had done all that end were working on Euro 5 that requires reduction in nitros oxide.
Both the last vehicles have the dreaded particle filter and inevitable replacement cost at 200,000 kms at 4-8 thousand $ or periodic cleaning at less costs. These are all common rail, high pressure diesel engines built for fuel economy and shhhh higher maintenance costs.
Mercedes, Renault, Nissan ganged up together on this R&D advantage pre ousted cost slasher Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn escape in a suitcase. Leaving Toyota isolated to solve its own dilemmas.
Another odd thing is I may import a good one from Aussie as NZ prices are gouged. This is viable despite me loosing 7% on currency conversion, 3K to get it here and fill in forms and further loss of 15% of GST tax as can claim it as business cost.
Low to ground chassis with electric push button 4x4 wheel braking traction control that can't climb a hill and loosin momentum all over the hill each time a wheel looses contact ground force. These have apparently replaced hill climbing gear stick selected low range and get out and manually turn the hub lock for no slip of differential that can climb hills without a breather and clean undies.
Maintaining momentum being the necessary prerequisite in 4x4 off road.
Also it appears looking at videos of Aussies in their new pickups that this new generation has forgotten the Land cruiser and Nissan patrol of olde times. One of note has thousands of followers and hundreds of videos on youtube and fairly recently installed retro fitted rear diff lock to his limited slip diff traction control sensing Landcruiser and commented that it was a great improvement. Why did he not simply buy the one with factory front and rear diff lock perplexes the writer.
So its gonna be a second hand buy as its going to get desecrated and scratched up regardless.
So maybe at this point the list is an older Land cruiser with the factory installed front and rear diff lock, Nissan NP300 retro fitted rear difflock or a Folkswagon Amarok with traction control and optional front and rear difflock.
Toyota Hilux have currently S**t themselves with their Diesel Particle Filter to satisfy Euro regulations causing a good to many of them to puff smoke and go into limp mode or very ironically be fined for too much exhaust emissions. They will no doubt fix this. Its a legacy of them delaying research and development to abide by Euro 4 regs while al the others had done all that end were working on Euro 5 that requires reduction in nitros oxide.
Both the last vehicles have the dreaded particle filter and inevitable replacement cost at 200,000 kms at 4-8 thousand $ or periodic cleaning at less costs. These are all common rail, high pressure diesel engines built for fuel economy and shhhh higher maintenance costs.
Mercedes, Renault, Nissan ganged up together on this R&D advantage pre ousted cost slasher Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn escape in a suitcase. Leaving Toyota isolated to solve its own dilemmas.
Another odd thing is I may import a good one from Aussie as NZ prices are gouged. This is viable despite me loosing 7% on currency conversion, 3K to get it here and fill in forms and further loss of 15% of GST tax as can claim it as business cost.
