Thread: Anti 4x4 rage

the problem isnt guns or 4wds....



its the government that needs to be banned......where do you think all the problems come from.....?

who do you think gave scruby the power to control footpaths....?

barry unworthy the power to control guns.....

and i refuse to go on as it gives me the real willies when i think about it.....

I have been driving 4x4s since I was 16 and always will. I would not let some clown in a clown car tell me what I can or can not drive, they would get a serve. There are places and applications for all sorts of cars big or small. Its OK to have a small car if you are not travelling far often. But try doing it with 2 adults, 2 kids and a dog plus camping gear. It can become dangerous. There is nothing worse than these opinionated city dwellers that call the bush the eastern suburbs. These people then have the nerve to call us environmental vandals, maybe they should look in their own back yard first. Most of us that use the bush love and care for it. Watch the mess these drug out hippies or yuppies leave in campsites. Having said that I can not believe all the idiots in capital cities that drive shiny new 4x4s that will never see any dirt for nothing more than prestige. Gives us good second handies to buy though. If I did not use my 4x4 I sure as hell would not have one for looks but would have a decent V8 Holden of some sort or maybe a Porsche. While my 4x4 is not always or realistically often in serious low range it is in the bush quite a lot. Try hitting a roo, goat or camel in a Hyundai, not thanks.

Originally Posted by CraigE

Try hitting a roo, goat or camel in a Hyundai, not thanks.

Has anyone hit a camel?

My car is also shorter, narrower, lighter, and gets better economy than most med /large size cars. Has good vision all round, and is great for towing. So they can all get S@#%$ed!

Trev.

Wot he said. The footprint of a Discovery 1 is smaller than most of those mentioned.

An "argument" that you also hear is " I can't see through them & there fore they are dangerous", or some such bollocks, but the same person will happily sit behind a bus, truck, van etc & accept it.

No mention of them not sitting a safe distance behind.

Originally Posted by dobbo

Has anyone hit a camel?

I have not personally hit one. I have come real close a few times. A friend hit one in his short Toyota and wrote it off. Had a sore head for a while. Have seen the result of various vehicles hitting camels, horses, bulls etc. Most 4x4s still end up a statuatory write off (front end damage) but all I have seen that have not rolled as a result have had the cabin area intact and only minor-medium injuries. Normal passenger cars I have seen have been completely buggered and usually need occupants cut out.
There is nothing scarier than coming round a bend at 100kmph and seeing a camel on the road, excep doing 90 with a caravan in tow and having a Bramha Bull walk out in front of you at dusk. 4 wheel lock ups with an 18ft van in tow are not fun.

Originally Posted by dobbo

Has anyone hit a camel?

YES !
an old customer of mine was driving to his butcher's shop in Warragamba, (as in Warragamba Dam, west of Sydney) it was 6.30 in the morning and Tony was motoring along Park Rd between Luddenham and Wallacia in his little Barina van. As he went over the little brow just past Bullens (yes, the old Bullens Animal World) there was a bloody camel, front and centre !
Luckily for him he took the legs out from under it and it rolled over his head and crushed the van body just behind the front seats. The poor ba$tard was copping flak from everyone for months afterwards, yet it was a very lucky escape (for him, not the camel )

Oh what a feeling. beep beep.

isnt that what rav4s are for......?

or is that what camels drive....?