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THE REVOLUTION IS COMING

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the future of 4X4s in this country. With the recent announcement that no new internal combustion engine-powered vehicle will be on sale in the UK from 2040, and the continued advancements in battery…

FRESH FISH ON THE FLY

According to my sources, last summer was face-meltingly hot in Australia and power outages were ruining ice-cream parties everywhere. And the reprieve from the heat came in the form of incessant rain. Here in northern Colorado, where the 4X4s are…

WOMEN LIKE MEN WHO DRIVE BLACK UTES

And they prefer utes over sports cars…   After a couple of days in a black Isuzu D-Max running errands around town, Evan told us he was getting noticeably more attention from the fairer sex. Well, that’s interesting, we thought.…

SCENIC EATS: BASIC BREAKFAST PARFAIT

Not-so-fun fact: The inventor of cornflakes, Mr John Harvey Kellogg, created them with the resolute belief that eating bland foods would curb certain… ‘enthusiasms’ in pubescent teenagers. Despite that theory being thoroughly (and repeatedly) disproven around the world, somehow the…

OUTBACK SURVIVAL LEGEND

This bloke has trained with the SAS, lived through a helicopter crash in the desert, and walked away from being thrown overboard with a couple of sharks. He knows his stuff when it comes to surviving just about any mishap……

WATER CROSSINGS FOR DUMMIES

I came across a bloke a couple of years ago in the Victorian High Country. He was stopped in the middle of the Crooked River with the water up to his door handles… and looking nervous. After a brief chat…

THE GREAT SPEEDING SCAM

Over the last 20 years or so, we’ve been constantly bombarded with the mantra that speeding on our roads kills, and slow equals safe. What a giant crock; and frankly, road users are being scammed. The person travelling 20km/h under…

RECIPE: HIGH COUNTRY MEATBALLS

We’ve got a bit of a scoop for you here. In the upcoming tenth season of Pat Callinan’s 4X4 Adventures TV show, they’re going to be visiting the iconic Victorian High Country. As you can imagine, it’s pretty cold up…