Two-stroke fuel wafted across the red sand dunes as the wind blew fumes back into the cabin of the LJ50 Suzuki, giving its occupants an oily pungent smell that stuck to their clothing and any exposed skin. The little Suzi…
EV GROWS UP… WELL, HIS TRUCK DOES ANYWAY If you saw the Staff Corner last issue, you would have seen the Zook I just picked up, and began modifying with a Uneek 4X4 bullbar. Well, after pottering around in it…
Like many of you I’m sure, I cut my teeth in the four-wheel drive game behind the wheel of a Suzuki Sierra. I worked every weekend, and public holiday I could to save for my dream car, and ended up…
We’ve traded archaic leaf sprung suspension for multi-link, fully adjustable coil spring arrangements. The manual locking hubs have gone, in their place you’ll find a plethora of acronyms, all designed to make off-roading easier and minimise the strain on your…
Sure, the venerable Suzuki Sierra is getting a little long in the tooth but they are still so popular with plenty of people for very good reason. They are fun, cheap and capable off-road. So what better way to…
It’s no secret that Japanese vehicles are ridiculously popular in Australia. Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Mazda, Subaru – it’s the bulk of what you see on the road today. When it comes to four-wheel drives, it also seems as if…
Most modern four-wheel drives are actually quite terrible at being a four-wheel drive. They’re big, luxurious, expensive and you most certainly wouldn’t call them economical. Which is funny, because the four-wheel drive was invented as a utility tool; the vehiclular…
Apparently, dogs look and behave like their owners. Or do people of a certain type all choose the same sort of dog? Nobody knows which way it works, but the same principle applies to 4X4s. So let’s don an invisibility…
1941 Bantam Reconnaissance Car 1948 Land Rover 1950 BJ Jeep 1950 4W60 1966 Bronco 1970 LJ10 1972 Leone 1979 G-Class 1978 LUV 1982 Pajero 1983 Korando 1991 Galloper 1993 Crossroad 1996 LX450 1998 Allroad Quattro 1998 Safe 1998 Retona 1999…
We take a look at nine ‘old’ 4x4s that you can still buy new, somewhere.Â
