Ahh i wasnt trying to say anyone was surmising anything, i was just saying how some people get themselfs stuck in all sorts of vehicles big and small, and thats usually lack of knowledge of how to drive to conditions.
My experience is i am an ex Army driving instructor, had my Army truck license at 17, was driving 6WD F1's with crash boxes in the Central Highlands of New Guinea at 18, and Series IIa landies all along the beaches of the Bismark sea near Bogia and up along the Sepik river, treacherous stuff. Then back home and all through outback NSW and a crossing from WA to Alice Springs through the sandhills, no roads out there, with a landrover series IIa that kept breaking axles, we were running spinifex in our tyres after we ran out of spares. In that time i learnt a little about what can and cant be done with all sorts of cars and trucks, yes a Subaru Forester is not designed to go hardcore, thats why i took mine up the Sunset track in Bunyip SP, since closed because its too dangerous, because i wanted to know what
I could do with it, not what the general concensus was. The guy in his GU asking what we were doing deep in BAW BAW NP? but thank god the little Subees turned up so we could tirfor him upright, he had slid off the track and on his side. I took the car when it was stock into Baw Baw and ripped the front bar off it, i also did 10 crossings of the Aberfeldy River over the bonnet, replaced all the damage a week later with a bull bar a skid plate, AT Tyres and a 2" lift then did Sunset.
In 1976 we took an ex rally car, an EH Holden from Newcastle NSW to the top of the Old Telegraph line of Track, in those days you crossed the Jardine as best you could, we crossed using 44's as floatation devices and a tirfor was our compantion day in day out.
Today i am a transport superviser running 30 semis, driving is my life and i have done it along time, under all conditions and in vehices that arnt meant to go where they have, so i dont cut the mines bigger than yours caper that is the general concensus when dealing with small cars against bigger 4x4's on some car forums, watch out i will get one of my 450HP semis to sort you out
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You would be surprised where in capable hands how deep in the bush even a 2WD commodore can get to, and a capable driver will always outdrive a novice under all conditions, the novice doesnt know his tyre pressures his lines, how to read the terrain, how to do a reverse stall recovery, how to snatch, how to winch out with snatch blocks etc etc.
I enjoy my driving and i dont care what anyone else drives as long as they are doing what they enjoy and safely and like above i am not a brand basher unless of course i had a few bad memories of a particular model
My pick for my next truck within the next 3 years?
A Troopy of course, one of the new ones with the rear passenger doors and that sweet V8 diesel
