Thread: Toyota Hilux Vs Moose test...

Originally Posted by vnx205

Didn't your original version say canes rather than camels?
I thought you were swerving to dodge (or run over) cane roads.

We must be on the same drugs.

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.

Originally Posted by Walruslike

It's ok anyway.... Fricken moose or not... I'll drive right over it....

At about 2m to the shoulder...... I reckon you have more chance at around or under than over

....plenty of cane roads out around me.....

just gotta swerve around the cane trucks at the mo'...

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

....plenty of cane roads out around me.....

just gotta swerve around the cane trucks at the mo'...

They should be parked up after Christmas.

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?