well there is no beer tent and the displays are on 3 times a day.
I think it should have been called 4wd caravan & camping though, as a summary it's worth a 1/2 day if you just look at the 4x4 stuff or most of the day if you walk slowly and look at every stand.
I didn't notice a lot of difference in the price of stuff to normal maybe a few bucks here and there but the stands were selling a LOT of fridges. Most drooled over stuff for me was the iron man 12,000lb winch about $800 and a 40,000 yes 40,000kg snatch strap and I have always had a bit of a soft spot for Quad’s. Repco had a Chinese winch for $550. All the 4x4 stuff you could imagine really if you are into camping or caravans too you will love it.
I was a little disappointed at the 4x4 extreme? display I would have had a go at all the obstacles,(slowly) in my standard RRC except for the big tyre and all the vehicles, about 7 had difficulties with that. Except the RRC ute and a VERY modded zukki. It would have been very entertaining for the soft road brigade though and that RRC sounded awesome.
You have got to watch out for the H1 hummer. Being as objective as possible, it’s utter ****e ! It’s a real nice show pony, engine sound great looks pretty good but ……..well just go and watch he even made up some excuse for not wanting to drive over rocks ! LMAO !!!
There’s two off road display areas so make sure you know which event is at which display area so you don’t miss any, (like I did). When you go in you get a map/schedule. It’s $15 per adult or a family of 4 for I think it was $40 maybe $45 kids under 6 is free. The gate accepts cash only.
The Landy stand has a RR, (not the vogue), two disco’s, two baby Landys and a Defer. I heard one bloke say “see, you just hose it out, now that’s what I want!”
You can sit in them all if you want.
I can see now why the Disco is so popular, to be honest looking at trim levels only there’s not a lot in it between the Disco & and RR. It would be interesting to see which was more capable off road. Not sure about that flip up button for the hand brake though and it seems all the door handles were plastic except the rear door on the Defer. I don’t know why but I always smile at the unpainted rivets on the Defer rear quarter, it’s good some things don’t change. If you want to see a RR sport look opposite the Landy display there is an audio/video stand that’s using one to display it’s “bling” video stuff.
The cyclone and ssanyong stands are present and always good for a laugh.
I still can’t believe I didn’t buy ANYTHING!
Ok so I bought an ice-cream but I don’t think that counts.
