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Well defining overlanding. If this overlanding is done within a Western country with some decent infrastructure, a lot of trips can already be done now. Anyway, solar on a vehicle will never work if that vehicle is a bulky 4x4 like most of us love for overlanding. And theb having only a few...

Search on Google for Hiace Hobo blog turbo kit, that is also on a 3L Engine. I don't see an easy link, but I remember he used an Australian Ebay turbo kit. It is without modification to fuel pump, which makes it safer and still great progress in driving. You can build it yourself using Toyota...

Agreed. And in that sense a second tire is not a replacement for bad tire usage, or using the wrong tires.

Wow calm down dude. A gps beacon or satelitte telephone is not a Deus ex mechanica but it is a whole lot closer to a Deus ex mechanica than a spare tire. We took a car (with two spare tires!) through Baluchistan. And our crankshaft broke. I guess I should have had a second crankshaft with me...

1 spare tire, a plug kit and a compressor. Going really remote should be incentive to buy a satelitte phone or gps beacon, not really a second tire. Once you had a flat you seek a tire shop quickly. And a lot of tires are just going soft, so you can buy some tome with your compressor. This...

Basically, all of thesw trucks are horrible to find parts for when in some random country on this planet. Even the Unimog. A bit more regular Mercedes truck is probably the most versatile in being serviceable worldwide. But probably harder to service in the US itself.

Yes a Landcruiser is probably easier to work on. We did two big trips with old Toyota's and it is easy if you need to work on them at all. But a new Landcruiser has a computer as well, that can halt because of bad fuel for example. As I said before, serious long overlanding with a(n older)...

The Porsche has been sold as a Transsyberia version, which went to Mongolia already. It is repairable, but what you mean is parts availability. Because it is not much different from a full options Landcruiser, in terms of technology involved. The Cayenne just requires (like many German cars...

Ha that's funny. I was just wildly guessing since I don't drive these big trucks.

I think the Cayennes are reliable. But for me, having it is a second car that is only used for trips, I would hate it to get some high repair bill, even though that bill would be very reasonable for an older Cayenne. Our daily driver is electric. I think I will skip the whole Cayenne thing...

It would be helpful with more info on which one.

He probably means that he came from something like 18 liters on 100km to 16 liter on a 100km. So 2 is the difference, which you put in as if the vehicle did 2 liters per 100km leads to that result. Difference between amount of distance per volume of fuel, and volume of fuel needed per amount...

The conversion looks great. I think our bed is just as big, but there is very little space to stand left because we got the LWB. Well first of all, weight is very important. What you can do with the engine is turbo charge it. There are kits available or you can do it with used Toyota parts. I...

Ha bingo, I know too much about Hiaces, I should get out more. Yes it is the super long wheel base, which is not common, or at least not in a lot of markets. So you get like 30 or 40cm extra

Wow what a load of BS in this topic. This week I charged my EV directly from my own solar system on my offgrid house. The offgrid house uses batteries from crashed electric vehicles. So guess what, the batteries don't even need to be recycled, they can be just used as is. Perfect for stationary...

I can tell from experience (two trips with a diesel) that in Asia, diesel is the first fuel to go missing. Petrol at octane 92 (european standard) is everywhere, and almost always also 95 octane available. And new diesels have become way too complicated, even if they are downgraded. Any...

I thought different emission classes. Like you have different safety classes for pickup trucks. (This is why a pedestrian unfriendly cybertruck could never be sold here in Europe for example) Either way, VW couldnt get the fraud cars back on the road in the US. Here in Europe they also cheated...

Ah yes, saying that I sometimes fail to understand you guys is condescending what way? Anyway, lets stay with a factual disccussion and I am happy to hear any arguments against what I wrote. For example, I actually preferred the US car emission standards to those of the EU, because the EU...

Which high horse? I still own an old diesel 4x4 which is not allowed in dozens of cities in Europe, including the city I used to live in. But I don't complain about it. And the Euro 5 and 6 diesels that are sold here for a while now are horrible for proper overlanding outside of Europe, fuel...

Yes everybody just reacts like it is a stupid idea to ban diesels, and just don't go there. Well that is a nice factual argument, and I am sure your diesel smells like flowers. Old diesels pollute densely populated areas. So it makes sense to ban them. You can talk about natural gas trucks or...