desertdude

Like that you can fit a W16 out of Veyron if you really wanted. I was talking about factory option for the earlier gens Learn to take a compliment!

RAV4 is a decent offroader, only negative it has is lack of full-time 4wd n low range box. Immensely popular with the shabab out in Rak specially the 2dr. it's light and nimble across the sand. Would have benefitted immensely from a v6 but no joy on that side. But it's good for you that you polish your skills on it, once you've mastered it you will really kick some ass if you ever move up to a proper 4x4 with more grunt.

My my my. I totally surprised with this coming from you! But yes you are right Regular bumpers, no lift, Two skid plates, king shocks, beadlock wheels and two badges with MBS signature on it make it "made for desert" !!!

Oh and just to tick off more people!

I know, just saying that you are perfectly home with the Pajero but were struggling with a 400hp turbo charged vehicle offroad. Whole point is if you have money shooting out of your ass and you'd like to take these things off road and bash them you can if you choose to if you can afford the expensive repairs if anything goes wrong or you break something. Another example. I've driven a Range Rover Sport Super Charged in Wagan, went beautifully everywhere but I hated it! Because just like on road it is very quiet and smooth off road too and you just waft along on the dunes. You get bored after a while. Then we found a big smooth dune and decided to see how far it would climb up. You felt like it wasn't climbing too high before coming to a stop, but coming down and looking at the tracks. It went pretty high up, you just didn't feel it was going that high up, because once again it was a very boring affair.

You didn't read what I wrote. I said with a little mods. Some bumper mods, slight lift. Wheels are just beadlock rims. Something most serious offroaders do their cars anyways. You probably have more mods on your Pajero than this. And you forget it also comes from the factory with a 400hp V8. Although the 6 is also not bad at all. As for the Cayennes were all bone stock half of them turbos and half of them regular S ones. Nothing modified we didn't even drop to 15osi and kept them at 20psi to totally avoid popouts and not waste time and they all drove beautifully. Just had to be careful with the front bumper as that was fragile and in the beginning one or two of them got dislodged and a whole chunk of wiring fell out from them! But after the first week everybody got used to them. We took them to the desert 3 time a week for 3 months each year for 2 consecutive years. I'm sorry to say if you were having trouble with it either was something wrong with your car or no offense intended you simply not used to driving modern SUVs off-road and more at home with basic old skool stuff like your older gen Pajero.

^^^^This but then again you have videos of people in Bentleys in the desert! Its a promo vid but still fun to watch here is my colleague Marshal, real name Mashal Mohsin having some with the new Rolls Royce Cullinan. And me having some fun back in the day demo'ing for some action shots for the then released Porsche Cayenne for the press. White one with orange oval logo on the doors

Thats the whole point when compared to "most" new 4x4s it is still a very capable offroader save for the pure offroaders like wranglers, FJC, etc etc, but compare it to the rest, its pretty up there. FYI until very recently ( I think a couple of years back ) when they were still offering the regular manual transmission a lot of my Safari buddies were using it for daily desert safaris with no issues at all. And with a little mods you can still have a lot of fun Traction control, Stability control etc etc have been around for over 2 decades, hell my 1998 Range Rover had traction control. Admittedly some of the early variations had issues but more testing, customer complaints, warranty claims have mostly sorted out these issues. Now most cars come with off road modes. sand, mud, snow, rock etc etc which disable most of these or put them at the lowest sensitivity.

That's a strawmen argument even then to answer you with all your weekend warrioring combined over the years in the sandbox I still have more offroading experience, because you do this on the weekend for fun. I did this as a profession daily and sometimes twice a day all over the country. Places you've never been to and can't go no more because they are off limits now. Plus post retirement weekend warrior offroading for a good number of years as well . Now let me ask you how many times have you been in off road in a stock modern 4x4 off-road? A stock Patrol will kick a 2020 Pajeros ass anyday of the week and twice on Sunday. And your example is anecdotal and doesn't prove anything other than driver error not being use his vehicle properly. I've out driven a previous gen 2005 Vtec Patrol with a 3' straight pipe and chipped motor in a 1988 2dr 4cyl Pathfinder with a leaking carburetor. Does that mean the 1998 Pathfinder was better, no. The driver of the patrol didn't know what he was doing. Only issue is you measure off road performance in how far something can climb faya. While majority of the people are not really interested in that because it's just a pissing contest as to whose is bigger.

Nothing but a facelift and new rear lights. Dunno why everybody is hating on it? It's a perfectly capable off road car. Remember nowadays almost nothing comes ready for extreme rock and rolling right out of the box. Some bumper mods are always a requirement. I'll tell you one thing I rather be in a Nissan Patrol stock out in the desert over 95% of today's 4x4 in stock form

In USA the LC from the 100 series up was never offered with the 6 cyl engine. But for the middle East it will be an upgrade from the the current NA 4.0 v6 on offer which is under 250hp AFAIK But engines with turbos just more shit to go wrong, intercoolers, more pipework, turbos them selves. If you are going the forced induction route dunno why more manufacturers don't go the supercharged route?

No they are not! I've had cars with brown, beige and grey.

Slight deformity between 80-110-120. Major deformity about 60 Below sixty your rim has to be on its last leg if you can feel it even at such low speeds

It's brilliant how you deduced that considering there isn't even a pic posted of the rim, just the tyre.

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It's to do with the transitory nature of this place. Back home my dad still has his Vespa from the 60s probably worth a small fortune now.

Strange thing is my social media feed is blowing up with the news of her tragic death, but I actually dunno who she is ? I've watched every episode of mythbusters but don't recall seeing her on it either

Oh I bet Barry is going to have something to say about this.

DRL or daytime running lights do not only refer to the new LED type lights coming on new cars, it means front headlights on at all times. If you spot an old camry or corolla driving with its headlights on in the middle of the day. Most probably its a US or Canadian import. Here this might be useful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytime_running_lamp

Take it up with the likes of US DOT

Boy that's ugly

LOL @paro

From the Mitsubishi plant in Punjab, The Mitsubishi Paji ! ( For non punjabi speakers, Paji or Paaji mean bro, brother, a term of respect and endearment or slang for dude, Sir etc etc etc )

Poor Steve gets so much flak for that one screw up