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Congrats @Shaaz Sha!

Congrats @Zed! its time to bring the 62 to IM drives 😈

I believe the key to climb is momentum and momentum = mass x velocity. Before you start climbing, you will need to push your rpm to its peak of horsepower delivery, which is right before the red rpm zone, to have the maximum amount of momentum from velocity. As you start climbing all the resistance and gravity start to consume momentum and you will see rpm dropping, then you will need to keep your rpm in the peak torque delivery zone to make sure horsepower is delivered for maintaining velocity. When the amount momentum left doesnt allow torque to maintain the horsepower delivery, which is when rpm doesnt respond to your pedal and the car starts refusing moving more, thats when you end the climb by steering down and give in to gravity. In real scenario, we use technics to obtain velocity when we don't have the space to obtain velocity from car itself Base on my understand above, the strength of TB48DE is that it has big torque to maintain the velocity and the peak torque comes in much earlier, which makes velocity handy? I hope my understanding is correct in physics, I dont major in physics 😁

I have been to numerous drives that @Hisham Masaad supported since newbie, always impressed by your knowledge, guidance and ability. And yesterday I am honored to be in the first of your leading drive, and thank you for trusting me as CF in such difficult terrain. This is also my first time being the CF and the convoy requires my attention, bit exhausting but great learning experience as well. Guess I could have made it if ever Nissan put a rear diff lock for Pathfinders, blame goes to Carlos Ghosn then 😎 The first half of the convey did really amazing job completing this drive, some refusals that self recovered. and the only major stuck which is from myself 😛. @eldose baby @Waqas Parvez well done for completing this demanding drive, and I could visibly see your improvements in later part of the drive, I am sure you will feel your future fewbie drives easier than this one. Few point to address: Momentum is your biggest help. And trust your Toyotas' power, which both you will learn more in the drives to come. @Naim Aoun @Damien Ranjit both of you excellently completed this drive, good job! Just one thing to address: Technics in obtaining momentum, that you will more likely to learn from drives in Bidaya/Area 53, Big red and Faya. The guys in the second half of the convey didn't require much attention, as they all quietly conquered the terrain like bosses. @Rsjiv Samuel I must compliment you for always keeping enough distance from me, very well done! Finally thank you @Frederic for saving my ass and watching us, the Pajero indeed feels much larger than it looks! and @Rawadfor helping out and the support throughout the drive, always feel safe with you sweeping! See you all after a while, I will be travelling to Peru for 3 weeks (Just got my visa this morning 😉), definitely I will be missing the sandy fun afar.

Congrats @Ruan van den Heever

Congrats @Shahid Mehmood

Congrats @Karthikeyan Govindarajan

Congrats @Ben84

Congrats @Salim Akhtar

Congrats @Alain Canivet-Abikhalil ! more tugs please 😁

Congrats @JeromeFJ !

Congrats @varunmehndiratta !

@Chaitanya D I could be late for 10 due to work delay , hope this is ok with you ?

I see that the for the 3.5 engine, torque has a steep climb right after 3k rpm and reaches its peak at 3.5 to 4k. Which explains why u feel that way.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CVK0frGBw4b/?utm_medium=copy_link This is your Pajero @Warren Flay ? sexy 😉

Congrats @Mus_hus78!

congrats @Ferl Brown

Congrats @PaoloMaraziti!

Happy birthday @Anish S !

Thank you @Ale Vallecchifor checking. I will not take this drive. Hope I can join your other of your drives in near future, have fun

Hi @Ale Vallecchi, I'd love to take the spot but I'll be able to complete only the morning part.

Agree, but Xterra just feels quicker more powerful than The 4.0 Toyotas💨 and the newer Xterra is just ridiculous, when it came out in south east Asia and China with this engine, I expect Nissan will keep the powerful VQ40DE, for the Middle East region that cares nothing about emissions, but Nissan only keeps it for Patrol☹️☹️

A friend of mine got a 08 American FJ for 30k, and that's market price for it... Absurd to me. One reason could be that Japanese made Toyotas are more reliable, hence I doubt you will find a cheaper Prado with similar condition. Plus GX is just a more powerful, softer suspensioned Prado (I have driven both), no major difference. If you are confident about your knowledge on used cars, have a look of 4runner/tacoma, made in USA but their reliability is trustworthy. Except 0 km ones, they usually come with minor/major accident from USA, some models with Atrac, rear locker, crawling control, same platform with Prado. And for 50k you will find near 2015 ones Fortuner is a good one too, made in Malaysia, surely will be cheaper than FJ but driving experience is not as good as the LC platform ones, as Fortuner is based on hillux, it has diff lock option Or go with Nissan Xterra instead 💨💨💨😈😈😈

I think Dubizzle's report here would reflect the UAE market. Altho depreciation is not considered, Patrol & LC are the least depreciated cars in uae Dubizzle UAE’s Used Cars Annual Market Report for 2020

Hi @Ale Vallecchi is it possible to join only the morning session? Can't really spare the afternoon as there is other unavoidable arrangement