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SUVs that never leave the pavement!
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My Jeep Cherokee with SelecTrac is in all time FWD ALL of the time. It goes off road a lot but so does my Volvo XC wagon. After I got over the horror of hearing the paint etc scratched by bushes, sticks and trees, I use it most of the places I used to take the Jeep and it is a lot faster and safer getting to those places with the Volvo. I have the engine protector installed on the Volvo. For real sticky and knarly places, NOTHING beats a JEEP! Got into so much mud this fall with the Jeep, I thought I was going to have to leave it in the boondocks until it froze, but the Jeep got out, throwing mud all over everything. Had to hose off the ENTIRE vehicle and use a shovel to get the mud off the driveway. The funny thing is that the Volvo probably would have handled the mud better but I just couldn't cover it with mud. I have never expeieinced wheel slippage with the Vovlo, even on glare ice. I do have 16" Gislaved's installed on the Volvo. I use the Vovlo for canoeing and kayaking becuase the roof line is lower making it easier to load and unload, even sling deer on top. Had hitch installed and now use HitchHauler. PS In norhern Wisconsin, vans and pickups are the most prevalent off road vehicles and many do not have any type of four wheel drive. -Dick
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I don't have any big old off-road trucks or SUV, but I know someone who took a Toyota Land Cruiser, replaced the engine with a Chevy 350, replaced the panels with fibreglass, and replaced the stock wheels/tires and suspension with 35" tires and a vastly improved suspension...sorry, cannot remember what exactly.
That thing rocked. However, the only time I know that it went "offroad" was when he had to drive on the dirt roads that happen to be in the Pittsfield, MA area.
Sweet looking ride, though. I hope it does see offroad time.
That thing rocked. However, the only time I know that it went "offroad" was when he had to drive on the dirt roads that happen to be in the Pittsfield, MA area.
Sweet looking ride, though. I hope it does see offroad time.
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I suppose this thread is not for me. Curvy pavement is my "playground." (Check my sig 
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Hey Beltfed,
Only one of those I know of...and it has venomous fangs! Nice car! Please tell me you don't have one of those in addition to a Land Cruiser!
Only one of those I know of...and it has venomous fangs! Nice car! Please tell me you don't have one of those in addition to a Land Cruiser!
....extremely entertaining ride.
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Well my last two SUV's spent their fair share of time off road.
I had a 1992 Nissan Pathfinder followed by a 1998 Nissan Pathfinder. Both were very useful during the winter when there was lots of snow or bad roads to travel on. Both also spend a considerable amount of time off road during hunting and fishing trips. The only thing I would recommend if your planning on taking your SUV offroad is to replace the tires, factory all seasons usually dont do too well off road IMHO.
Sadly I didn't have my digital camera back when I had these vehicles so I dont have any nice pictures to post.
I might add that my favorite indication as to how well you did off road is how much money you spend at the car wash cleaning up. I usually had to spend up to $15 at the carwash and spend 45 minutes with the pressure hose to get all the mud off the SUV as well as from all the nooks and crannys underneath.
I still drive 4x4's but not SUV's, I wanted a pickup so that I could haul arounda quad as soon as I can afford it. Latest purchase (1 week ago) was a 2002 Chev S10 4X4 ZR2, I am pretty sure I can get some fun offroading done with this one.
I had a 1992 Nissan Pathfinder followed by a 1998 Nissan Pathfinder. Both were very useful during the winter when there was lots of snow or bad roads to travel on. Both also spend a considerable amount of time off road during hunting and fishing trips. The only thing I would recommend if your planning on taking your SUV offroad is to replace the tires, factory all seasons usually dont do too well off road IMHO.
Sadly I didn't have my digital camera back when I had these vehicles so I dont have any nice pictures to post.
I might add that my favorite indication as to how well you did off road is how much money you spend at the car wash cleaning up. I usually had to spend up to $15 at the carwash and spend 45 minutes with the pressure hose to get all the mud off the SUV as well as from all the nooks and crannys underneath.
I still drive 4x4's but not SUV's, I wanted a pickup so that I could haul arounda quad as soon as I can afford it. Latest purchase (1 week ago) was a 2002 Chev S10 4X4 ZR2, I am pretty sure I can get some fun offroading done with this one.
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I guess knifeknut complaints about "non off-road" use of luxury (or other) SUV's is like SUV owners complaining about knife owners petting and polishing their $4,000 Lakes without ever cutting anything? Maybe?
One of our family everyday'ers is a Range Rover 4.6 HSE that only goes "off-road" when I drive down a country road to board my dogs. However, when there's 4 feet of snow on my street and the plows won't come for another 6 hours, my SUV earns its keep. (I have heard of the existence of a video in which a Range Rover goes head to head with a Hummer - and does everything the Hummer does, except climb a 20-inch stone wall. Anyone know where I could find a copy?)
But what do I know - I used to have a black Ferrari Testarossa that I only drove at night. Seriously. I hate people staring at me!
One of our family everyday'ers is a Range Rover 4.6 HSE that only goes "off-road" when I drive down a country road to board my dogs. However, when there's 4 feet of snow on my street and the plows won't come for another 6 hours, my SUV earns its keep. (I have heard of the existence of a video in which a Range Rover goes head to head with a Hummer - and does everything the Hummer does, except climb a 20-inch stone wall. Anyone know where I could find a copy?)
But what do I know - I used to have a black Ferrari Testarossa that I only drove at night. Seriously. I hate people staring at me!
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I was told about this video (or maybe it was a feature on a TV news show?) by a Hummer salesman.
(IMHOBTW - just as there is no such thing as a gun "accident", I'm sure these LR's didn't end up in those ditches on their own. There is no manufacturer who has come up with an option that, when you turn the ignition key, puts the stupidity and incompetence of the driver into NEUTRAL.)
Sidewinder, perhaps you can tell me what is so horrible about a minivan. I am on my second, the first, a 1989 Turbo-Voyager with stick shift, gave me 150,000 miles of great driving all over the Eastern half of the US. I bought it to carry my family around and to take Boy Scouts on outings where they wouldn't have to ride with their knees up around their ears, and it worked wonderfully well. I now have a 3.0 V-6 Caravan and it is the MOST wonderful car for Interstate trips. Now, I do not run around in sports car country any longer, as I have arthritis and cannot fit such vehicles, but I have owned them and driven a number of them, and the Caravan is still one of the more pleasant touring type vehicles around. I guess that I am getting old and soft, but the Interstates, where most of the touring type driving is done, are too damned boring for anything but switching on the a/c, setting the cruise control, and putting a tape on the player, my preference being bagpipes and/or Celtic harp.
In early '97 I bought a '95 Grand Cherokee. It's my only vehicle and No, I don't take it off road that often. I'm a geologist, and I have used it to get into and out of some pretty sticky back-woods sampling sites, but never on a regular basis. I bought it because I knew there would be times I'd need a 4WD (as a replacement for my std Cherokee), but I didn't want something that I couldn't comfortably drive long distances on the highway or in Atlanta traffic. I love my Jeep. It's never let me down. I don't think there's anything wroung with buying a 4WD just to know you have it when you need it -- even if you end up never locking the hubs.
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I absolutely agree - almost everyone I pull out seems to be suffering from pilot error. I think they believe they are invincible in their bright shiny new 4x4, forgetting that the laws of physics still apply to them, and when they hit ice on a corner, nothing will save them if they are going too fast.
The Washington, DC, area where I grew up and where I live doesn't get a whole lot of snow and not much in the way of ice, but it always scares Hell out of me to watch the idiots in their 4X4s out there, thinking that they can corner and/or stop as well as they go forward in snow and ice. No way can they do that, and they wind up "slip-sliding away", as Simon and Garfunkel put it.
