Reply to: Any of you agricultural types know of a good 4WD for Pater?

[DimPrawn]

I'm relatively cash poor now I'm not working. And Pater can afford it.
Forester seems the right combination of toughness, ability, size and price.
Will look into it.

I reckon the Forester is the answer too. Capable, reliable and most importantly to you CHEAP.

[sasguru]

But will he have the bottle/resolve to floor it, as one needs in places to drive along a muddy rutted track without getting stuck?
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Probably, especially after a bottle of whisky.

[OwlHoot]

...seeing as he lives at the end of a rutted track in Sussex, he needs a tough 4x4 if he's not to be stuck during rainy weather as well as snow. Any recommendations for a 4x4 up to £20K.
Effectiveness more improtant than style. Don't know anything about 4x4s

But will he have the bottle/resolve to floor it, as one needs in places to drive along a muddy rutted track without getting stuck?

Maybe it would be better and cheaper to pay for the track to be filled in and resurfaced (unless its about a mile long).

[sasguru]

My Dad's a shooting man and a few years ago his pheasant shoot got flooded in. The only way out was uphill through a ploughed field. There was a good assortment of 4WD types as you expect from a mainly gentrified set, but only one got to the top; one of those cheap crappy looking suzuki jeep things with the thin wheels.

HTH

Saw one of those when I was surfing earlier: a Jimmy I think its called. 2 door cheap as chips. Saves some of my inheritance.

[Mich the Tester]

My Dad's a shooting man and a few years ago his pheasant shoot got flooded in. The only way out was uphill through a ploughed field. There was a good assortment of 4WD types as you expect from a mainly gentrified set, but only one got to the top; one of those cheap crappy looking suzuki jeep things with the thin wheels.

HTH

oo aar

P'raps it were the tyres what were better than the rest. Did they get the pheasants home?

[Gibbon]

My Dad's a shooting man and a few years ago his pheasant shoot got flooded in. The only way out was uphill through a ploughed field. There was a good assortment of 4WD types as you expect from a mainly gentrified set, but only one got to the top; one of those cheap crappy looking suzuki jeep things with the thin wheels.

HTH

[Mich the Tester]

Buy a horse. No tax, no insurance. Cheap to run. if you are French you can even eat it.
the way the country is being run; we will all be back in the stone age sooner rather than later. The collapse of Europe is imminent. If you think about it, nobody during 1900 would have believed that prosperous Europe would be at war and Germans would be starving within 20 years.

I am going for a cup of tean now.

Is tean something poisonous?

Wouldn't a good old fashioned cuppa suffice?

[ZARDOZ]

Most of the ones listed so far will struggle to get 25mpg. Considering the ever escalating price of fuel. I'd have a look to see if any on this list suits.

http://www.whatcar.com/car-news/what...updated/259938

[Paddy]

...seeing as he lives at the end of a rutted track in Sussex, he needs a tough 4x4 if he's not to be stuck during rainy weather as well as snow. Any recommendations for a 4x4 up to £20K.
Effectiveness more improtant than style. Don't know anything about 4x4s

Buy a horse. No tax, no insurance. Cheap to run. if you are French you can even eat it.
The way the country is being run; we will all be back in the stone age sooner rather than later. The collapse of Europe is imminent. If you think about it, nobody during 1900 would have believed that prosperous Europe would be at war and Germans would be starving within 20 years.

I am going for a cup of tean now.

[shelby68]

Jeep?

Well if you wanted it purely for it's off road capabilities you can't go wrong with a Defender, or if you fancy being a little different, how about a Jeep Wrangler, the 2.8 diesel will get you 30mpg and they're fairly cheap to service, granted the interiors are a little "minimalistic" but they're not bad on road and great off it.

[sasguru]

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2) SAS is rich enough to buy it for pater without blinking. Or is his wealth the lie we know it is.

I'm relatively cash poor now I'm not working. And Pater can afford it.
Forester seems the right combination of toughness, ability, size and price.
Will look into it.

[Mich the Tester]

Skoda Yeti, honest. Good reviews and good price

Yep, didn't think of that one. Looks quite worthwhile.

[darmstadt]

Skoda Yeti, honest. Good reviews and good price

[Old Hack]

Remember, it's ass we're talking about; looking at his lineage, his dad would need to carry his girlfriend about, and as it's proper 6 toed land, it's likely to be an animal and there's no S1 Quattro I know that can carry sheep, although one did carry Michelle Mouton about for a few years

[DimPrawn]

Have you ever driven along a farm track after a few days of rain? A 500hp rally car would succesfully spread mud all over a large area, possibly splattering the walls of the house, or worse, the pub, while entombing itself in a fragrant mélange of cowtulip, mud and silage. The six toed yokels would all come out with their dogs to squint at you and the RAC would send someone in a van to laugh at you and tell you he can't help. Eventually some building contractor would have to bring in a JCB and pull you out, and send you a huge invoice for doing so. Someone would take pictures and stick your portrait on the wall of the local pub with a small banner above it saying 'clueless townie of the year'.

Leave this to country folks; he needs a sensible 4X4.

No, you are right of course.

Something sensible.

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