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merlin617:
Hi All,

I have just been wandering through the forum pages and looked in the tech pages other than Landy ones to see what other chaps with different vehicles get up too and noticed many posts where people tell of  the prowess of there particular make of vehicle off road.

The comments which took my interest were the ones saying perhaps "its better than a Land Rover" or "it'll go anywhere a Land Rover will" or "we got further than a 90 that was stuck up to its axles" You know the sort of thing.

Now, I have a Landy, but have no problems with others who like other 4x4s but what I found amusing is that even the people who dislike the old Solihull machine still compare their own vehicles to it.

I realise that there are probably far more old landys mud plugging out there than other makes but it still gives me a nice warm feeling that after 60 years they still appear to be the benchmark that others try to equal.

I must try to remember that fact next time something breaks or drops off mine.

Like I said, just an observation :grin:

Eeyore:
Good point, that man!

In the 'mine gets further than yours' debate, folk often forget one thing - the driver can make an aweful lot of difference to the performance of a vehicle, regardless of which nation built the thing.

Take challenge events. There are guys doing them with portal axles, immense suspension travel, planet sized tyres and super-fandango v8s. All the gizmos. And they still get panned by a dude with nowt more that a 2" lift and some canny driving. Which makes me smile.  :wink:

It's about the nut behind the wheel, more than owt else, so in the ol' arguement, my stock answer is 'drive a mile in my tyres, then we'll discuss'.

......as long as I get to choose the mile!  :lol:

V8MoneyPit:
I had the bonus of actually being able to directly compare for a year or so. I had a modified Samurai and a V8 110. Both great fun, but in very different ways. As the right honourable donkey says, driving style makes a huge difference. If I drove the Sammy the way I drove the 110, it would get stuck within yards. When I drove it like I stole it  :twisted:, it was amazing! All it took was a change of driving style........ and to switch off the fear button  :shock:  :lol:

Rich_P:

--- Quote from: Eeyore on June 24, 2008, 12:11:17 ---Take challenge events. There are guys doing them with portal axles, immense suspension travel, planet sized tyres and super-fandango v8s. All the gizmos. And they still get panned by a dude with nowt more that a 2" lift and some canny driving. Which makes me smile.  :wink:

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Or in some cases, said vehicles are out done by a decent driver in an old bog standard leafer that's nearly as old (or older sometimes!) than the driver.  :lol:

Eeyore:
Ahh, that'll be the good old 'trials' event. I once watched a single seater special getting beaten by a S1.  :dance:

Mind you, I've seen SJs do a good job of wiping the floor too, but they're pretty much the same thing!  :lol:

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