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Best Survival Vehicle?

Currently i have a 2007 Honda Accord - drive quite a bit due to work, and it has been reliable and great on gas!

As a survival vehicle, Toyota Hilux. Have had some experience with them and they can go any where! Also the Top Gear episodes where it was featured show what these things are capable of... if you have not seen them, google it..

Also agree with STIHL -the Land Cruisers are incredible vehicles...
 
I like my Chevy Tahoe with a tow package. It takes a beating and still just goes, but ultimately a survival vehicle is situational. For the most part it would serve as a means to reach a second location. A good location is secluded, so offroad is a must. For this I'd pick some decommissioned military tech or a jeep wrangler. For the sake of inconspicuousness, I'd take the jeep. Ultimately though, in a survival situation, I would like to have a stocked sailboat ready to go. Fill it with gear, a quantity of non perishables, several hundered pounds of salt (unless on salt water, you could make your own there) fishing equipment, firearms and such, and of course knives. A sailboat in open water is defensible by a small group given the proper equipment, and there is a steady supply of fish under you. If you bring the right things with you you can grow vegetables on the deck (would require building and mounting a greenhouse or garden box). One can concievably make a reasonable water filter that can be scrubbed clean, allowing you to have a steady supply of water. Depending on location, there may be small islands that you could reach for resources. This is of course a long term scenario, most "survival" situations are short term, and a car will serve you well.
 
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LOL, at least someone is using the search function. :D I don't think I even had internet access when this thread started.
Click to expand...

I had dial up. Ouch.

Since this thread it alive, I'll play. I have a great pair at the end of my legs. My feet. Too bad my weight, er, mileage isn't what it was 13 yrs ago.
 
Funny that you bring up the boat option - even though I get tired of these "What's the best survival (fill in the blank)?" threads, a boat that would allow me to get to an otherwise inaccessible piece of land, or at least offshore, would be one of my first choices. You will greatly cut down on the number of things to worry about if the unskilled and desperate cannot get to you, or at least not without being seen long before they do.
 
i own an 02 Mini Cooper S & an 07 gsxr 600. I would not choose the Mini for obvious reasons. If anything ever went down, you bet your ass Id be aquiring an International box truck. Id stick my bike in the back along with everything else I needed to survive.
 
Anything with an engine can become obsolete once the tank is empty, but a mountain bike with a packraft strapped on gives two modes of transportation, neither of which require petrol/diesel.

Google bikerafting to see what I mean.

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Credit: Lost Coast Bikerafting Expedition.

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Credit: Bikerafting.com


Alpacka Raft Denali Llama with Bic Pen for scale.

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If you are going over rough terrain the Pintzgauer should be considered. If I had the $$, I'd certainly consider one. Pack your MB and raft, you need a way to get to the water.
 
i have an older nissan patrol , the re-badge to ford maverick , 4l diesel , lsd ,4x4 , not bad
being diesel i have run it on straight vegie oil , and distilled motor oil .
Ive even run bio diesel in it :)
it isnt the ultimate , but it does OK for us , i personally feel tho that whatever you happen to have with you is going to be it tho if you find yourself in a oh poop situation .. itll be it
 
Same rule that applies to knives, right? The best survival vehicle is the one you have with you...:D
 
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Mine is currently a 99 chevy cavoleer. Its for my day to day survival, necessity for living. Humvee would be my vehicle of choice if I could keep gas in it.
 
Airforce One.

I guarantee you that if there is any situation where survival is at stake, be inside that vehicle and your chances will be optimized.

All times prize goes to Noah's Arc.
 
A diesel truck will run on home heating oil

Many abandoned homes in the end will have an oil tank that you can siphon a few gallons out of to keep moving

Stay off roads so a diesel 4 wheel drive would be nice

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Have axes and equipment already in place

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Learn to hunt and trap with simple reusable quite tools save bullets for defense

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The best survival vehicle is the one that is running. There is only so much you can do to insure that on your part. There is a limit to how much gas, spare parts, tools for repair, and repair knowledge you can stock. You can store some gas, the rest you need to get from somewhere else. So having a car that sips gas would be useful. Spare parts are expensive and can be difficult to install, having a car you can repair easily with standard tools is good. If spare parts are widely available and in stock all the better.

[video=youtube;xnWKz7Cthkk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk[/video]

Edit: Also if you are going to have multiple vehicles it might make sense to have multiple identical vehicles.
 
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talk about a resurrection thread !!!!! WOW ..........................................

for the frugal nothing beats a jeep cherokee 4x4, 4.0... best years imo for limited quirks in the bush 97-99
 
I personally have a jeep wrangler, and I think that would be my go to vehicle for on or off the land. I have owned 2 of them and they go whereever I steer it, no question. However, I have had some less than ideal circumstances involving driving them in the ice. Which is my only complaint.
 
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