It's ok anyway.... Fricken moose or not... I'll drive right over it.... I won't see it to swerve... too busy looking down at the speedo. :)
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It's ok anyway.... Fricken moose or not... I'll drive right over it.... I won't see it to swerve... too busy looking down at the speedo. :)
We must be on the same drugs.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by vnx205
Here is the apparent official list:
Moose Test
And yes the freebie 1 appears to be the only LR on it.
** Correction -- they have 2006 Rangie Sport and 2002 V8 Rangie passing....
If all those Jeep Cherokees, Grand Cherokees and patriots can pass, I have no doubt most newer Land Rovers would pass no problem.
At about 2m to the shoulder...... I reckon you have more chance at around or under than over ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Walruslike
....plenty of cane roads out around me.....
just gotta swerve around the cane trucks at the mo'...
They should be parked up after Christmas.Quote:
Originally Posted by ramblingboy42
I did a moose test,,
driving the green one back to QLD,,
Got up early to make time, northside of Parkes after a small while, nearly ran into a roo in my lane. fog fog fog. Was doing, maybe 80? and it appeared, swerve and recover!!
The whole thing happened that quick,
I did a moose test in my work hilux van years ago. Saw a movement on the edge of the road and thinking it might be a child coming through some shrubs I immediately swerved right across 4 lanes, correcting as I went to turn back. It took 4 complete swerves across the full width of the road before I got control. How it did not lay on its side defeats me. :)
Link to the Defender falling over on the German Moose Test in 2007 - Defender-Elchtest: Wirbel bei den H?ndlern - AUTO MOTOR UND SPORT
There is some discussion on the German 4WD forums at the time that AMS tipped it on purpose, to prove a point about 4WDs, ESP etc. I think it is interesting that a professional driver couldn't keep it upright, and also that so little damage was done after tipping it over at 60km/h.
Post #14 in this thread has a copy of a 2007 LRO article Er kippt nicht um where they mention that a 1997 Discovery, was also tipped over by AMS, but later was shown to be driver error, and later passed at 70km/h. Surely a Defender with the same track width, and same suspension geometry and arguably lower centre of gravity should pass too?
What I find amazing is that in Aust new vehicles do not have to pass a "moose test" as part of the ADR certification process but if you do certain mods to your vehicle and need engineering then a "moose test" is part of the process.
So if you have a HiLux and do mods the modded vehicle has to pass a moose test but the original doesn't - go figure.