G-wagon

[Grover-98]

Has anybody ever been off road in a G-wagon on paper they seem like a fair dinkem off roader with lockable diffs all round low gearing plenty of power built army tough so i would imagine them to be pretty darn reliable and durable.

But how are they in the real world?

[Slunnie]

Dunno, but they are now the Australian Armys replacement for the LandRover fleet.

[Grover-98]

Dunno, but they are now the Australian Armys replacement for the LandRover fleet.

You would expect them to be good then! and they also have some Styre Puch influence in them as well. So good blood.

[Bytemrk]

Never driven in one, but there is a guy in the club with one.. I'm lead to believe they are pretty impressive in the tough stuff..

Mark

[Michael2]

Dunno, but they are now the Australian Armys replacement for the LandRover fleet.

But on the previous army tender, when the G-Wagen competed against the 110, it wasn't chosen.

[Slunnie]

But on the previous army tender, when the G-Wagen competed against the 110, it wasn't chosen.

I'm sure there were a lot of reasons for that then, especially with Rovers platform flexibility to build a range of different purpose built vehicles. Thats not a statement on their performance, reliability or real world experience. I would have thought that the G-wagon would be significantly better offroad than the Defender, if only due to the difflocks which also require a stronger driveline. then again, winning the Army tender doesn't say much for how it operates in the bush either.

[TwoUp]

I was led to believe that the Army wanted a one vehicle interchangeable parts fleet. Also that Land Rover was not prepared to supply a heavier vehicle (mog size).

As for the G Wagon we had one in our group here and it had the lockers and was a good vehicle. He sold it for the then new Td5 Defender!!

Regards,
PeterW

[Psimpson7]

Mate of mine had a 2002 G500 SWB which was awesome to drive!

I am not convinced by their prowess off road in standard from as they dont have much wheel travel, which is why they need lockers, on top of the weight.

They can be made to be every bit as good as capable as anything else with a bit of effort.

[sclarke]

Yes been in one....

Nice... very German and industrial....

A refined Defender....

[big guy]

Was gonna buy one before the Disco.
Theyall come with standard front and rear diff locks, high and low of course and diesels.
The one I drove had 300k on speedo and it showed as you would expect.
Very slow and ran out of puff at 100km/h.
The guy wanted $13k for it. I offered $5k and I know he sold it for $8k.

I did some research and running gear lasts forever, whatever that means and everything else would have cost me a mint.

As said above, very german but also very agricultural, couldn't have found a better way to describe. Spoke to another fella in the Adelaide hills who had one since new and best car he ever owned, older bloke(65) and only ever broke down once, in however many years. He would put his life on it. His words not mine.

The payload is very small and that could have tipped the Army towards the Defender.

I still like it but they are slow.
One day maybe.