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most 4x4s will surprise you especially with decent tyres and for the record landrovers are rubbish offroad they get stuck so easily its laughable especially the older leaf spring jobbies.

Best 4x4 system i have used to date is the Jeep Quadradrive fully automatic constant 4x4 with fully variable front to rear lock and automatic side to side locking so basically if one wheel has traction your moving has a low ratio too, just a shame they make it out of hard toffee and it eats itself quite easily.
 
most 4x4s will surprise you especially with decent tyres and for the record landrovers are rubbish offroad they get stuck so easily its laughable especially the older leaf spring jobbies.

Best 4x4 system i have used to date is the Jeep Quadradrive fully automatic constant 4x4 with fully variable front to rear lock and automatic side to side locking so basically if one wheel has traction your moving has a low ratio too, just a shame they make it out of hard toffee and it eats itself quite easily.
Not sure I agree about the landrover comment. Sure a leaf sprung 109 with a tow hitch and road tyres will get stuck easily, but a D90 on mud tyres and traction control is hugely better off road than the average pickup.
My last Defender albeit somewhat modified (37" tyres, difflocks, big travel suspension, LS6 +auto, winches, etc) was virtually unstoppable.
 
Discussion starter · #46 ·
Pretty impressive ( on standard trim and road tyres) given the company it's in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLuKqgGUwYI
Quite impressive, although the tracks were not that bad (lots of much worse ones around here) especially on road tyres.
I went through some hellish wet field the other day in my mates old knackered Ranger, he just blasted through at 30-40 mph leaving boggy ruts 4" deep, less bold driving would have got stuck, his method was to get going on the dryish bits and not to back off. Knowing the land and where the hazards are is as key as tyres and difflocks, and of course experience.
 
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Well I headed on up into the woods to help a neighbour look for a lost dog, and had a go up this slope, went up and down the side (toward camera) in 2H
Now it doesn't look that steep, but it ripped the clevis pin off my tow hitch on the way up.... It is certainly steeper than it appears in the picture, and now way would a "car" go up there (a friend thinks his new skoda 4x4 will tow a trailer off road...)

Oh and I found the dog btw!
 

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Resurrecting an old thread, but this just popped up on my FB news feed. Great video of some smooth, controlled driving.

Note the damage to the doors: there's a reason Defenders and Wranglers have vertical sides.

Having a tray instead of a tub buys a little extra departure angle, but at the cost of less weight over the rear wheels.

https://www.facebook.com/anarch4x4/videos/1502507823094289/
 
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