New 2010 Patrol

[olbod]

First pics.
I havent read any specs yet but the word is they have two new diesel
engines ?

[Cameron_Def]

haha they can keep that ..

Look at the plastics on it !!!!

[DeeJay]

It would'nt matter how "blingy" they get, I know I'll never buy one.

[CraigE]

Looks like the offspring from a Pajero & prado mating.

[scarry]

Looks like a 200LC gone wrong....

I wonder if they have learnt what TC & constant 4WD is?:o

[samuelclarke]

The current Patrol I reckon doesn't look too bad - in fact, if it'd be my next choice after a Land Rover. But that new design looks like the love-child of a Nissan Patrol and a Toyota Land Cruiser 200...

[olbod]

Looks like a 200LC gone wrong....

I wonder if they have learnt what TC & constant 4WD is?:o


I believe that it will have it all ?
Might be too soft but I will reserve judgement untill I see it.

I really like the current model with the big six petrol engine !!
245 HP, double overhead cam, 5 speed auto, cruise control and powerful and strong.
It also doesn't use much more fuel than my V8 Disco, not that I care about economy anyway. I believe it gets thirsty if you flog it in sand.
Most owners are getting 18-19 lts per 100 on the highway.
With proper servicing, they are getting over 500,000 k's without any problems. As well as that they look damb nice.

It would be the next best thing to getting a brand new D1 V8 auto.

I am a bit set in my ways. I dont want or need all these electrical aids and doo hickeys, to get me out and about. Never had them and never needed them. Learn to drive in the bush is what you need to do !!!
Getting out and taking pics while the vehicle drives itself up or down a
steep incline is just crap and doesn't make anyone a 4x4 driver.
Today, men are softies and need these soft suv's to take them about.
Apart from mine, when was the last time you saw a 4x4 with an axe on board ?
For the past 50 years my camp has been lit by a kerosine lantern, why
change ?
I'm not too fond of these days.
Cheers.

[bblaze]

I believe that it will have it all ?
Might be too soft but I will reserve judgement untill I see it.

I really like the current model with the big six petrol engine !!
245 HP, double overhead cam, 5 speed auto, cruise control and powerful and strong.
It also doesn't use much more fuel than my V8 Disco, not that I care about economy anyway. I believe it gets thirsty if you flog it in sand.
Most owners are getting 18-19 lts per 100 on the highway.
With proper servicing, they are getting over 500,000 k's without any problems. As well as that they look damb nice.

It would be the next best thing to getting a brand new D1 V8 auto.

I am a bit set in my ways. I dont want or need all these electrical aids and doo hickeys, to get me out and about. Never had them and never needed them. Learn to drive in the bush is what you need to do !!!
Getting out and taking pics while the vehicle drives itself up or down a
steep incline is just crap and doesn't make anyone a 4x4 driver.
Today, men are softies and need these soft suv's to take them about.
Apart from mine, when was the last time you saw a 4x4 with an axe on board ?
For the past 50 years my camp has been lit by a kerosine lantern, why
change ?
I'm not too fond of these days.
Cheers.

every day ,when I walk out and jump in my disco (havnt had to use it though)
cheers
blaze

[Shamo]

hahaha so toyoto go and ruin their look - so nissan says "Me Too!!!"

What an ugly ugly car

Shamo

[RichardK]

every day ,when I walk out and jump in my disco (havnt had to use it though)
cheers
blaze


X 2 , always in the D3 when camping

[disco_mitch]

**** that i feel sick i think im going to spew seems jeeps saying is so true
"theres only one".........realy 4by still in production these suv/4wd things they have all come out with disgust me imagine taking that thing up the tracks we all go driving, i understand making a comfy 4wd but for heaven sake keep it a real 4wd not a shopping trolley if i went out now and bought a brand new 4wd the only thing that would be on the cards is a 4door wrangler

[olbod]

every day ,when I walk out and jump in my disco (havnt had to use it though)
cheers
blaze

Good Man, keep it sharp.

Mine's a Plumb, three heads and five handles and still in good order.:p

[dmdigital]

First off haven't these pictures been around for a while now:confused:

Secondly my understanding is this is the 2010 Patrol but will not be released in Australia until late next year - so 2011 model - with the new engine. I also am lead to believe the engine to be release in Australia is from Renault. Should go nicely with the Peugeot engine in the Discovery 4:p

[dmdigital]

Good Man, keep it sharp.

Mine's a Plumb, three heads and five handles and still in good order.:p
Won't buy another Plumb axe. I had two fail on me, both developed hairline cracks from the edge back in to the head and full depth. I noticed it both times when I was hand sharpening the each axe. And, yes, they only every cut timber. To keep using them would have been courting disaster as the head could have fractured.

So to me Plumb axes are like Patrols, they have a built in catastrophic failure just waiting to occur.

See you all thought I'd gone off topic:p

[Benny_IIA]

First off haven't these pictures been around for a while now:confused:

Secondly my understanding is this is the 2010 Patrol but will not be released in Australia until late next year - so 2011 model - with the new engine. I also am lead to believe the engine to be release in Australia is from Renault. Should go nicely with the Peugeot engine in the Discovery 4:p


V6 TD i think :confused:.

thats what I read a few months ago.


ben.....

[dmdigital]

Same here I heard its a Renault V6 Td somewhere around 3L capacity.

[Benny_IIA]

Same here I heard its a Renault V6 Td somewhere around 3L capacity.

Yer, I wonder if it will be better the current hand grenade(zd30):D

[Grover-98]

when was the last time you saw a 4x4 with an axe on board ?

Cheers.

Every day :) There is a axe and shovel on the Pinzgauer all the time and i also have one of each on my series landies and there is a axe and pick on the haffy in the shed :)

James.

[rijidij]

Can you spot which one of the following vehicles has even a tiny bit of individuality..................

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/11/670.jpg

[PAT303]

Your all over it rijidij,really good post. Pat

[Benny_IIA]

Can you spot which one of the following vehicles has even a tiny bit of individuality..................

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/11/670.jpg


I think you got the datsun toymota mixed up......:bangin:













(i get the joke though:D)

[rovercare]

Apart from mine, when was the last time you saw a 4x4 with an axe on board ?

Cheers.

Mines a petrol powered axe;)

[samuelclarke]

Top comparison rijidij - give me my Defender any day...or any Land Rover for that matter. You know I think the problem is that they're all trying to make their big 4wd's look smaller than they are...except it doesn't work.

I wonder what those other 3 will look like in 15-20 years? That's if they're still on the road! :angel: :wasntme:

[Scallops]

Top comparison rijidij - give me my Defender any day...or any Land Rover for that matter. .....

Indeed - what a fugly vehicle - the Japs just have no idea... :toilet:

[rijidij]

I think you got the datsun toymota mixed up......:bangin:


Did I ??.......Gee, I didn't realise......they look so similar........I must have (accidently ;) ) got the names wrong !!!!!!!!!!:D:p

[rijidij]

I wonder what those other 3 will look like in 15-20 years? That's if they're still on the road! :angel: :wasntme:

Possibly something like this................

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/11/665.jpg https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/11/666.jpg

[87County]

Looks like the offspring from a Pajero & prado mating.


...nah... just looks like the bought the used panel presses from Ssangyong ... seen a Rexton??

[wally]

Yuck.

[isuzu110]

...nah... just looks like the bought the used panel presses from Ssangyong ... seen a Rexton??

I had exactly the same thought

[VladTepes]

Oh that's a city car if ever there was one !

[Bush65]

Good Man, keep it sharp.

Mine's a Plumb, three heads and five handles and still in good order.:p
I take my Plumb when I go bush.

[2 rocks]

**** that i feel sick i think im going to spew seems jeeps saying is so true
"theres only one".........realy 4by still in production these suv/4wd things they have all come out with disgust me imagine taking that thing up the tracks we all go driving, i understand making a comfy 4wd but for heaven sake keep it a real 4wd not a shopping trolley if i went out now and bought a brand new 4wd the only thing that would be on the cards is a 4door wrangler

Mitch, I agree. In the - mainstream - current market, with the exception of the Defender, Wrangler & Wrangler Unlimited, what else is there with live axles and coils at both ends?
Oh, the 76/79 series Cruisers?
Even the small(ish), but respected Suzuki's are now 4 wheel independent suspension.
Cheers
Mike

[Leo]

G-wagen will be back in RHD and around for a few years yet. Personally, I don't see the problem with well designed independent suspension e.g D3, if you don't intend on huge lifts etc. However, they only work well with the cross-linking that air suspension allows and I can see why coil sprung independent suspension can cause issues like bottoming out, more bits to break ( coils or air) etc

[waynep]

Hmmm....looks like they might have gone IFS ...bit hard to tell, but I'd be surprised seeing everything else has gone soft, that they retain a live front axle.

And for camping axes, you can't beat a Fiskars combo splitter axe ...I am getting one for Christmas :D

[olbod]

Won't buy another Plumb axe. I had two fail on me, both developed hairline cracks from the edge back in to the head and full depth. I noticed it both times when I was hand sharpening the each axe. And, yes, they only every cut timber. To keep using them would have been courting disaster as the head could have fractured.

So to me Plumb axes are like Patrols, they have a built in catastrophic failure just waiting to occur.

See you all thought I'd gone off topic:p


Many years ago I teamed up with my uncle and spent a couple of years
as fencing contractors. we also built and repaired stock yards. Out there then, we were using all posts, no steelies. Everything cut by hand with our axes.
He showed me an old head as you discribe, with a hairline crack. As a boy he had been told by an old Bushman, that a head could be damaged on certain types of timber if the blade was a bit dull !!!
I would spend hours sharpening my axes with a bastard file the night before we would go out cutting. Six inch posts, ten inch strainers,
sometimes the cocky would want split posts. I must have cut thousands
of the things and never had an axe fail. I still do a bit of fencing to help out around the local country. The latest was building ten K of nine foot deer fencing, once again all axed timber. Three strands of plain and we used a Fordson tractor to strain the mesh. Most enjoyable. Beats
mowing the lawn.
Cheers.

[olbod]

Correction sorry.
The Deer fence we built was five K.
The ten K was old fence that we removed on another property.
Doh, getting me paddocks confused.:confused:

Cheers.

PS: Still looking forward to seeing this new patrol, tho.