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What do you think this portrays about how we drive.
Drift:
Like the daft bint on there tonight saying "you get further off road if your gung ho" :roll:
Disco Matt:
--- Quote from: Drift on July 15, 2010, 23:48:14 ---Like the daft bint on there tonight saying "you get further off road if your gung ho" :roll:
--- End quote ---
Well you do get further. Stuck further in! :lol:
Drift:
True :lol: :lol:
Disco Matt:
I shouldn't think LR were too impressed mind. For example, why was the driver attempting to turn up out of the ruts when the vehicle simply didn't have the tyres to do this? All it did was throw mud about and make him look clueless, which really wasn't a fair portrayal of the vehicle.
Tyres and driving technique are everything. The mainstream motoring press doesn't seem to have realised this yet - witness the 90 there on road tyres which, as you might expect, had some trouble recovering the D3. I know from past experience that in my Disco on M/Ts I'd just have rolled forward to take up slack in the rope then driven off gently. No fuss, no excess stress on components, and no damage to the trail.
My first reaction now to non-enthusiasts complaining about performance of one 4x4 or another off road is "what tyres was it on?". That D3 on some decent rubber would go pretty much anywhere you felt brave enough to take it, on road tyres it's a bit like expecting Usain Bolt to set a world record in flip flops!
Lincs niva:
Tow rope didnt look upto much either......
Cheers Gav
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