Road closed due to snow!!

[shotgunshooter3]

Interesting back story on the Grenadier. Made by a Brit in a former Mercedes factory in France. This has a lot of potential if it proves it's worth. The head of the company that makes the car decided he was going to build what LR had stopped building because he was pissed at them. Must be nice to be a billionaire.

Little more back story, he tried to buy the rights to the OG Defender but was turned down.

I notice YOU have been suspiciously absent from a thread about geh cars. Hmmmmm

Some of us work for a living. Not me, but some of us.

[Wambli Ska]

We still take the time to come here and thoroughly waste time. You can too dammit

[GrapeApe]

We still take the time to come here and thoroughly waste time. You can too dammit

Our boy's all growed up now and is leaving the nest

[shotgunshooter3]

Built in a former Mercedes plant with a BMW 3.0L straight 6 turbo

Despite BMW standing for "Bring More Wrenches," apparently that engine in particularly is considered one of the best made. For what it may or may not be worth, Toyota uses that engine in their Supra, after extensive testing.

[GrapeApe]

I wasn't bad mouthing the engine. I honestly know ZILCH about it. Just saw it listed in the specs and thought I'd mention it.

[shotgunshooter3]

I wasn't bad mouthing the engine. I honestly know ZILCH about it. Just saw it listed in the specs and thought I'd mention it.

Didn't say you were, I was just elaborating.

[GrapeApe]

Didn't say you were, I was just elaborating.

It's all good, sometimes it is difficult to read "inflection"

[shotgunshooter3]

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[GrapeApe]

LMAO

[Wambli Ska]

So true

[breamfisher]

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Cows, too.

[GrapeApe]

Plus the cow probably smells better

[Elk Creek]

I can say this, my wrangler gets pushed around a ton when it’s windy here, especially in Wyoming!

[GrapeApe]

I can say this, my wrangler gets pushed around a ton when it’s windy here, especially in Wyoming!

Being a shaped like a collection of boxes, I'm not surprised

[Wambli Ska]

Anyway even with the aerodynamics of a brick, it has gotten me to a lot of cool places. This week I drove from NV, through Utah, into Denver for work for a few days and today hung out in Ft. Collins CO and then Laramie, WY.

Tomorrow we are hitting the Snowy Range Mts in Wyoming and Saturday I’m driving back through Utah and home. About a 1,600 mile drive this week through some of the prettiest country in the USA like this in Utah.

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Evening rush hour Laramie

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Can’t believe it took me this long to get to live “out west”. While out here I also bought a set of grips that came with a gun. More on that when I get home.

So regardless of what vehicle gets you around, take the time to enjoy it guys. None of them do poop for your soul parked in your driveway, Costco and at work. Hit the trails, well worth it…

[Orchidman]

Dont get snow where I live.................But, If I did I would use my daily driver with the addition of chains.
Its a 2002 Suzuki short wheelbase Grand Vitara 4wd. 2.0 litre motor, 5 speed manual trans with Hi/Low ratio box and slightly aggressive road tyres.
It out performs BH's 3 yr old Hilux AND his series 3 LWB V8 Landrover.
Uses less gas, makes less noise, weighs less, costs less to service and goes anywhere. Wheels are at the corners so it handles well on the road, tows my trailer with the quad bike easily, also my fully laden duck boat or a trailer full of firewood at open road speeds of up to 120km/h.
I can fit 2 large red deer in the back with a fallow deer on top along with all my hunting gear and still have enough room for 1 passenger and a dog.
It proves the theory that 'less is best' in my view.
Been driving it for the last 5 years over all sorts of terrain and have still to get it stuck. Have even used it to tow BH out of the crap he got his Toyota stuck in.
Was given it by my uncle as a thank you for looking after him before he passed.

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The only thing I added to it was a roof rack with a bracket to hold a night vision camera ( not shown in the pic) which connects to a large tablet that I sit on the dash.....plus 2 'clip on' shooting rests which hang off the front doors. ( Also not shown) Means that when doing pest control, I can drive all over the farms without lights/noise etc and dont even have to get out of the vehicle.

Will take a pic, if I remember, of it in 'work, mode the next time I head out.

[Orchidman]

Dont get snow where I live.................But, If I did I would use my daily driver with the addition of chains.
Its a 2002 Suzuki short wheelbase Grand Vitara 4wd. 2.0 litre motor, 5 speed manual trans with Hi/Low ratio box and slightly aggressive road tyres.
It out performs BH's 3 yr old Hilux AND his series 3 LWB V8 Landrover.
Uses less gas, makes less noise, weighs less, costs less to service and goes anywhere. Wheels are at the corners so it handles well on the road, tows my trailer with the quad bike easily, also my fully laden duck boat or a trailer full of firewood at open road speeds of up to 120km/h.
I can fit 2 large red deer in the back with a fallow deer on top along with all my hunting gear and still have enough room for 1 passenger and a dog.
It proves the theory that 'less is best' in my view.
Been driving it for the last 5 years over all sorts of terrain and have still to get it stuck. Have even used it to tow BH out of the crap he got his Toyota stuck in.
Was given it by my uncle as a thank you for looking after him before he passed.

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The only thing I added to it was a roof rack with a bracket to hold a night vision camera ( not shown in the pic) which connects to a large tablet that I sit on the dash.....plus 2 'clip on' shooting rests which hang off the front doors. ( Also not shown) Means that when doing pest control, I can drive all over the farms without lights/noise etc and dont even have to get out of the vehicle.

Will take a pic, if I remember, of it in 'work, mode the next time I head out.

Forgot to add, had 89,000Km on the clock before I got it and its done another 123,000Km's with nothing done to motor, gearbox or mechanicals
since new.

[Orchidman]

Wish my computer was as reliable as the truck.....

[Wambli Ska]

Drove one of those on the beach in Florida a few years back. Neat and rather capable vehicle. Zero issues in deep lose sand

[Chiro1989]

If BH is getting a Hilux stuck, maybe he needs more weight in the back

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[GrapeApe]

E, Utah DOES have some beautiful country to drive through... HOWEVER they also have the most boring stretch on interstate in the country.

Run west from SLC, past Tooele, and you're in the salt flats. Flat, straight and featureless. There were even long stretches where there wasn't a FM radio signal.

[Elk Creek]

Anyway even with the aerodynamics of a brick, it has gotten me to a lot of cool places. This week I drove from NV, through Utah, into Denver for work for a few days and today hung out in Ft. Collins CO and then Laramie, WY.

Tomorrow we are hitting the Snowy Range Mts in Wyoming and Saturday I’m driving back through Utah and home. About a 1,600 mile drive this week through some of the prettiest country in the USA like this in Utah.

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Evening rush hour Laramie
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Can’t believe it took me this long to get to live “out west”. While out here I also bought a set of grips that came with a gun. More on that when I get home.

So regardless of what vehicle gets you around, take the time to enjoy it guys. None of them do poop for your soul parked in your driveway, Costco and at work. Hit the trails, well worth it…

Yeah, we gonna do some Wyoming “stuff” today! We may even give that Mojave a Wyoming welcome!