Troopy or Defender ?

Do they make the Troopy thing as a dualcab????

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Originally Posted by jplambs

Bordertown S.A.? There's a Landrover dealer just a few clicks away in Millicent.

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A few clicks??? Bt - Millicent as about 2/3 of the distance between Bt-ADL!!!

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Originally Posted by juddy

Do they make the Troopy thing as a dualcab????

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To the best of my knowledge Tojo dual cabs are aftermarket.The first dual cabs were made using the County by the Snowy Rivers Scheme.They were V8's and some are still around.

$$$$ Why pay more for just because it has a toyota badge. Every new generation of toyota is less capable and costs more.

Tell Dad (if he hasnt already) to go with the defender and with the money he saves he can splurge on a camper trailer or a tinnie or some luxary items for the car.

If he goes with troopie he is up for more $ in mods just to get it up to scratch and now that Dads on his own a 130 ute or the 110 hardtop would be even more practicle.

please let us all know which way he goes.

If he's going new don't get a new Troopy. Boss has one of the v8 diesels as a work car & we a constanctly putting oil in it, it leaks worse than a landy & we all know that if a landy isn't leaking there is no oil in it.

Aside from that I agree with rockyroad. When I was looking at a new car I'd rounded it down to a early 2000's Prado or Disco TD5. The Prado's were all around $3-5000 more expensive than the Disco's with same age/simular km's. I can't see this being any different for a Troopy.

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Originally Posted by Disco44

To the best of my knowledge Tojo dual cabs are aftermarket.The first dual cabs were made using the County by the Snowy Rivers Scheme.They were V8's and some are still around.

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I think you'll find that those dual cab County's were special builds for the Bicentennial Authority to tow information vans around. Nothing to do with the Snowy scheme.

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Originally Posted by dullbird

really I have been getting 10/100 at 110kph+

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in the deefer or the troopie.

the troopies at work struggle to even hit 15l/100 most of the time.

I drove a brand new Troopy the other day - even made some notes for a "mini review" and if I can find them some time I'll post them.

Cheers

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Originally Posted by PAT303

Lastly about the dealer network if you break down in a modern tojo it goes on a truck,even if it can be fixed if it goes into limp mode it needs to be re-booted so it gets a lift. Pat

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This is so correct.

Toyota's reputation of reliability and parts availability was built on vehicles of the past. Certainly not the present.

Not to mention the reputation that every bush mechanic could repair it. I doubt the average bush mechanic could do more for a modern Toyota than he/she could do for Land Rover.

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Originally Posted by rovercare

Having done the simpson desert in my old mans 79 series troopy, I wouldn;t hesitate to have one for long distance touring, 6,000km's in 3 weeks, it was suprisingly comfortable, towed a Kimberely camper effortlessly and the factory seats, its an RV with buckets were quite comfortable, Its also done, the Kimberely, Canning, Simpson, Cape york before and is heading to the Kimberelys again next year......but it is a 1HD-FTE, try and find anyone thats had a fault with them, cause I certainly can;t:eek:, the new V8 on the other hand:D

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They are very much like Tdi's,if you service them properly they go for ages but if you don't give them 5k oil changes and keep right on top of the cooling system it's all over.They have a habit of snapping cranks also. Pat