Thread: GU Patrol finished. Victim of emission laws.

Originally Posted by ozscott

Hold on..i am lost...are we bagging GU Pootrols with the best motor they put in them (not a high bar) or modern TD utes or both?

Cheers

By the looks of things we are bagging anything with four wheels that is drivable.

And no AC was not an extra in the GU wagon.

I had a Patrol as a rental eighteen months ago while my 110 was repaired after a bloke ran into the back of me.

My impressions of it? Quiet compared to the 110, but the seats had my back aching before I got home, the visibilty is pretty appalling compared to the 110, especially forward visibility and over the bonnet on steep creeks and round the thick windscreen pillars. Handling was a little worse, ride definitely worse - and the aircon didn't work at all (I accepted it knowing that; it was either that or accept a two wheel drive or walk).

Overall unimpressed. (And that was comparing a two year old car with one that was 25 years old and done five times the mileage!)

John

Originally Posted by ozscott

Hold on..i am lost...are we bagging GU Pootrols with the best motor they put in them (not a high bar) or modern TD utes or both?

Cheers

Don't like any of them,the rolly polly Patrol/Cruiser or the mushy front horse cart rear of modern utes. Pat

Originally Posted by incisor

so much for them being bullet proof...

some of them around here leave an appalling trail of soot behind them when they hit the loud pedal...

i only drove a few of them and they all seemed gutless... worse than the 3.5v8 rrc version of gutless

i always liked the look of the patrol and miss my old g60 at times....

He does a bit of work to them, increases the injector pump travel and some other things. I've driven his GU, and you'd never call it gutless. Goes like a cut cat, scary actually.