Thread: 4WD Action/Roo Systems acquires a D4... :(

Rothy lives near me.

You always know it's him as you can see the feet of the Toyota owners hanging out his arse as he walks along

I subscribed to this rag once - every time I saw an article where I had good knowledge, they were way off the mark. It was therefore impossible to trust anything at all in their mag.
I too remember Rooth from the Two Wheels days....... having four wheels hasn't raised his IQ or his integrity.
The good news is that the sort of folk who read his mag will almost certainly not buy a D4 after they destroy this one, thus saving D4's from abusive and unintelligent driving.

Originally Posted by cripesamighty

Please God, someone give them the GOE website for some driving tips before they drive it like a Toyota and then wonder why it won't work as advertised.....

I have actually talked to them before about doing a course - may have to try again, with an attendant Cruiser to get bogged in

Cheers,

Gordon

Glenno will be right,,, he's finally about to sit his arse in a good car and then he'll wonder why he's put up with **** for so long.
He probably wont have to touch it to get to where he goes now with a worked car,,

Here's hoping he learns how to drive it before he breaks it

Originally Posted by Chops

Here's hoping he learns how to drive it before he breaks it

I don't understand people flogging cars the way this mob does when so far from home, I know sometimes it's fun to give our fourbies a bit of a thrash from time to time but not halfway up the cape or in the middle of the simmo, then break something and have to be recovered by tilt tray and cut the trip short, couldn't think of anything worse.

As said in previous posts, lets hope they do the right thing by the D4 or else it will just give the Datsun and Toymota bogan herd more fuel for the fire.

Gordon, I wish you luck. It would be great if some of these journo's could even do your classroom component (given they may have time constraints), let alone take them offroad and show them how to use these vehicles properly. At least then they would have some semblance of a clue of what they are reviewing and how to get the most out of these vehicles! Maybe you can offer them a discounted group journo rate next time you are over on the East coast. Ha ha

At the moment when I read the current crop of Australian offroad magazines, I regularly roll my eyes as they make the same stupid factual errors. That's not just for Land Rovers either. Unfortunately these errors (or bias) don't lend any credence to a lot of their conclusions and it's often these not quite informed articles that sway people's car choices. It's the reason sadly, that I stopped buying Australian offroad magazines.

I figure if you want to review a vehicle, at least make a bit of an effort to understand how to drive it properly. This is especially true of the later generation of Land Rover products which are at least a generation ahead in technology, so are NOT driven at all like Toyotas and Nissans or ever need to be. But then I guess there are lots of pressures on editors and journos nowadays to sell magazines so perhaps I am being a bit harsh......
Oh well, we may not always get the favourable reviews we like, but we can always hope their standards of journalism improve!

Originally Posted by komaterpillar

I don't understand people flogging cars the way this mob does when so far from home, I know sometimes it's fun to give our fourbies a bit of a thrash from time to time but not halfway up the cape or in the middle of the simmo, then break something and have to be recovered by tilt tray and cut the trip short, couldn't think of anything worse.
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I never understand that either. I don't get out off the beaten track much in mine, but if I did, I'd apply the same logic I use when mountain biking/hiking - you get yourself out there, it's your responsibility to minimise the risks to get yourself back.

I did find that the video left me with a compulsion to slap him and tell him to stop talking nonsense

Originally Posted by cripesamighty

Please God, someone give them the GOE website for some driving tips before they drive it like a Toyota and then wonder why it won't work as advertised.....

I have already posted for Glenno to do so.

Brett