2018 Suzuki Jimny

[Mercury Bullet]

Originally Posted by GasOLane

^^^ This.
Many moons ago I was driving the Truck and stuck in Cunnamulla as the road Nth out of town was dirt it was raining and being Blacksoil we weren't going anywhere.

I bet Outback truckers got through.

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by EBSXR6

The Subaru Brumby was a farmers favourite for similar reasons.

A mate had an early Subaru 4wd wagon he went away on a 4wd trip in the Otways in a group that had all types of vehicles Land Cruisers, Patrols, Hi Luxes etc.

They got to this very muddy section and the big vehicles got stuck had to be winched out. My mate just gunned the Suby, it floated across the mud and scrambled out the other side.

The old French 2CV was reportedly built around the need for farmers to be able to drive across a freshly plowed fields and replace any panel on it easily.
The Subaru brumby is another favourite down here that keeps going on.

[naddis01]

Being an ex-farmer, the problem with the brumby was ground clearance. My dad had one as a work vehicle and you could get that thing beached on a clod. We also has a Suzuki Stockman (essentially a trayback Sierra for those that don't know). With a set of mud tyres, that thing would go anywhere. We never bogged it and we had heavy black clay, good rice growing country. Even it though didn't have enough ground clearance. Also the 1L motor and 4 speed combination was no good on the highway. 80Km/hr was about the limit. Being Indian made probably didn't help and in the end it was literally falling apart. The body had cracks all through it and the clips that held the removable roof kept breaking from twisting climbing over irrigation banks.