desertdude

My question is how do you transfer the car to your name or buy a car from out of town and get Dubai plates for it nowadays?

14 hours ago, Gaurav said:

And that one thing with self leveling is enough to spoil the party, if not kill you, not-so-luddite dude.

He is talking from every week experience seeing tons of cars with all sort of gizmos from this century and not just flying sim from couch.

Which like I said isn't too much of an issue. Just replace the shocks on the cheap. You won't even get a light on the dash.

And then you should also listen to your buddy and sell everything you have and buy only vehicles from the 1990s

4 hours ago, Rahimdad said:

When you're thinking about Infinity you're bringing in lots of computers. From my point of view computers and electronics don't go well with sand. I would enjoy it on road, but not really use it off road.

Don't listen to this ludite! Lol he has an aversion to anything made in this century.

The Infiniti version has nothing more than different styling in the front end better interior materials like leather, wood and more comfy seats and a better sound system. depending on the options rear entertainment and autoself leveling in the rear, which if you find a hassle can swap out for regular Armada shocks. Drive train components are basically identical. 

1 hour ago, Gaurav said:

And I have seen it otherwise, from a colleague who clocked 200k on it when I join his ride to AD and had plenty of time to talk. On road reliability (let alone off-road) and shaky and flaky US standard interior was big turn off.

Yes agreed the interior is lack luster and cheap American plastic ( maybe the Infiniti version is better but I don't know )

But mechanically other than a few known issues it pretty alright

I can't see any pics? Maybe that's what it really is. Because Mr Bushy hasn't produced a new worthwhile car in over a decade now.

Ramadan/summer  people usually do night drives and that unfortunately is in lock down timings still 

8 minutes ago, Gaurav said:

320 hp / 2.5 ton = 128 hp/ton is a very good power to weight ratio for offroad.

However being LWB and american build quality is totally against to use for offroad after 12 years of production.

I personally haven't seen one to be used in desert on a """"""regular basis""""" before ppl start jumping up and down.

Reliability wise it's pretty solid from what I've heard. All forums say this as well as a couple of people I know who have them and use it off road regularly.

21 minutes ago, RohanH said:

How about infinity QX 56 around 2008 which looks like available around 20K

Some people hate I personally like maybe I'm biased because I was part of the team that did the desert testing  during development phase for its original platform the Armada.

But it's big, but feels very light of it's size and it's pretty fast on the road for it's size and powerful in the dunes. But wouldn't recommend it for a person new to the desert

19 hours ago, Rahimdad said:

Now you make more sence @desertdude. Hitting the international flavours. Maybe you can do an arabic song from say Miami.

I love the Kuwaiti band Miami. I was actually looking into that or maybe Sandy the Persian artist out of L.A and his Bandari music.

On 4/19/2020 at 3:32 PM, Rahimdad said:

banging my cooking utensils for 15 minu

LOL lame dude that's seriously lame! 

Good thing you don't live anywhere close to me. I'd give an earful to anyone making a racquet at 9 in the night!!!

I have this lousy neighbor who bought a full bedu lowered, turbo charged badrol with a loud exhaust. And can't get it registered because of the lockdown. So it has no plates.

Starts it up late in the evening and keeps reving it for a good 5 mins everyday. 

I've gone out and given him a few dirty looks but that hasn't helped. And I don't want to say anything because he works in one of those three lettered departments

I was hoping they were going to pay me to take some petrol away from them!.

On a serious note I don't see it coming below 1.50 and I doubt it will even go so low

Quarantine or no quarantine. Best use of a jeep yet.

Well won't be much different for me. I've never held a 9-5 in my life. 

Never been a slave to the alarm clock.

And it don't stop Lockdown mixes continue!, time to take out flashy pants, shoulder pads and get your Jerry curl on. Not a Remix but rather a Remake giving it a modern flavour 
Enjoy 

19 hours ago, treks said:

...and they're trying to replace them all with electric cars. Good luck with that- or at least, good luck with trying to do that in less than about 100 years. 

Took us around that much to get to a billion cars so another 100 till we get electric seems right

Nah not really.

15 hours ago, Rahimdad said:

To be honest, didn't sound quite as good as the previous one. But not bad at all.

Thanks, all feedback negative or positive is appreciated

16 hours ago, Barry said:

Free Bird

Anything with a live drummer is a huge PITA to do specially from the 90s back. Specially rock since they were recorded without a click track and the timing of the beat keeps drifting and you literally have to manually adjust every quarter note or at best every bar to bring it back into sync.

Ok I know some of you getting sick of this shit, but I'm shameless and I'm still going to plug in tunes!

Once again I hit bollywood! Like Share subscribe yadda yadda yadda
 

Any requests or recommendations? 

I'm also guessing a billion plus at least

Forget that. Who presses the clutch with their right foot!

Something strange in the neighborhood!

3 hours ago, Xaf said:

 It is fucking awesome.

So are the Sand Rails it's based on

On 4/17/2020 at 8:29 PM, Xaf said:

Super Safari...

That's basically a Sand rail with a chopped patrol body on it. Well some of it from a patrol anyways

On 4/16/2020 at 6:29 PM, Barry said:

If that’s what your mother says, then that’s what it means. If she is anything like my mother, I will have to agree with her that the sky is green and the sea is red. Saying yes and smiling is the key to an easy life. 

Not just mom's but all women are like that 

I would say the Jimny is the hot hatch version of the proper 4x4 world. 

It's small efficient does what's it's supposed to on a budget but it can really never compete with or replace the proper big guns.

Still in lockdown so it continues, this time I turn my attention to ol' bollywood. I churned out the entire thing yesterday evening so don't expect miracles! 
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