How I didn’t get bogged at Inskip Point!
Chances are, if you screw the pooch as you’re lining up for the Fraser Island ferry, sink to your diffs, and need four 4WDs, a tractor and a front-end loader to pull you out, you’re gonna be famous…
Driving Technique
Your summer 4×4 and camping guide
The birds are chirping, the bees are buzzing, and the neighbour is mowing his lawn in uncomfortably short shorts. Summer is here, and that means all over the country four-wheel drivers are loading up the camper trailers, stacking the roof…
Why mud sucks
Off-road driving means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For some it’s the pure isolation touring provides. Travelling thousands of kilometres just to find that piece of untouched beauty. For others, it’s the technical challenge…
Prepare your 4×4 for the big trips
The days are counting down to that big trip you have been planning. You’ve spent an eternity poring over maps and itineraries, ensuring you’ve got the right mixture of distances and downtime, with all of the sights you want to…
10 things I learned crossing the Madigan Line
Sam Purcell is back from the hardest crossing of the Simpson Desert, across the Madigan Line. Following Cecil Madigan’s 1939 expedition as closely as possible from Abminga Siding to Birdsville, he covered over 900 kilometres in fourteen days in his…
Grenadier vs Defender vs LC300 vs Patrol – touring wagons off-road : Part 4 the decider
So, which is the best off-road? Nissan Patrol, Toyota LC300, Land Rover Defender or Ineos Grenadier? We’ve spent the day playing with these big four wagons and we’re at the point where we can make a call about which car…
2024 Suzuki Jimny XL 5-door first drive – is the bigger Jimny really worth the extra money?
2024 5-door XL Suzuki Jimny problems Is the 5-door Jimny any good? What’s the story? Anyone who has been around the old-school Suzuki 4x4s knows that the LWB versions are far superior. In pretty much every way. More stable, have…
Grenadier vs Defender vs LC300 vs Patrol – touring wagons off-road : Part 3
In Part 1 of our Grenadier/LC300/Defender/Patrol comparison we introduced the four vehicles, in Part 2 we looked at rough-terrain performance and now it’s time for descents. The most deadly terrain in offroading is a hill. That’s because gravity can accelerate…
The Unsealed 4×4 guide to water crossings
Motor vehicles are essentially just bits of tin filled with oil, fuel and air. Not even the radiator is filled with the simple old H2O anymore. So, when we decide to drive through water, and we don’t want a drop…
Dirty fun – how to drive in mud
We're not here to tell you whether driving in mud is a good or bad idea, that's up to you. What we are here to do, is show you the right way to tackle mud driving
Five top tips for driving safely with wild animals
Kangaroos, buffalo, pigs, goats, wombats, donkeys, camels - these are some wild beasts you may encounter on an outback trip.
How epic is the Hay River Track?
This journey will take you through spectacular country from the Plenty Highway to the QAA Line in the Simpson Desert.
Grenadier vs Defender vs LC300 vs Patrol – touring wagons off-road : Part 2
Each of the four cars takes a different approach to off-road ability
Don’t do these 12 things before heading bush
Unsealed 4x4 contributor, Mark Allen, breaks every rule and lives to tell the tale
Tall touring: Is a 4×4 truck better than a dual-cab ute?
Looking to find out, I reached out to a few truck manufacturers to see if they’d throw us the keys to a 4x4 model for a couple of days.
