Thread: Bought a MY13 D4!

Congratulations. I know what you mean about no options because the base price is a financial stretch.

I see the sense in getting your family to drive it up but not sure I could handle entrusting the pick up and first drive to someone else.

Anyway well done. You're gonna love it.

Thanks James

I should mention its an SE SDV6...

Yeah it's a bit hard being in Darwin... it would cost me a couple of grand to truck it up... the young folks driving it up will probably be more nervous than me

I was thinking I'd drive it up but they are really keen to visit and getting leave would be hard for me...

Congratulations mate, you do what you have to get it there - I have no doubt you'll have strict rules in place for the drive up. It's the wait is the hardest part!

Congratulations on purchase.
Keep us posted on how it turns out, how the 8 speed goes.
I might be upgrading in 2 more years from my 2012 D4.
I cant imagine a better car than what Ive got, but maybe.....

Hey Paul

I picked up my 2013 on Thursday and absolutely love it. It took me the drive home to get used to not resting my hand on the stick. Changing into reverse to park has caught me out as well. (air shifting)

Actually took it off road today, which I hadn't planned on doing so soon, and it was outstanding.
Mate has a Prado which took 3 attempts (last being a run up) to get through a rocky section and the D4 just rolled up on rock crawl without breaking a sweet. The 4WD info screen was interesting aswell. I have e diff fitted and from what I could see, it was being engaged on the screen.

The only thing I found is that the paddles are easy, if your not careful, to bump into manual mode while off road but apart from that it's great.
Have noticed a little lag off idle which I wasn't expecting, mind you that is just in D and not using S or manual shift.

Enjoy your D4, it's worth getting excited about.

Cheers Scott

Picked up my base model 8sp D4 a couple of weeks ago, traded my Freelander II in for it and I must say I am impressed the 8 sp is a gem. The base model is 3ltr but only 155Kw and less torque than the Sdv6 does this mean it's a single turbo?

A couple of the steering wheel controls do not work and will not work until a software upgrade comes out shortly otherwise all good.

At $69.5K on the road not bad.

As far as I know carcrank still two turbos but engine just detuned a bit - perhaps some minor physical differences in injectors or something I've read. Yeah that's a lot of car for under $70k - you won't get a GXL Prado for that and that comes with a noisy gutless engine, no traction control, no air suspension, 2.5t towing etc etc...

yes - still twin turbo.