If you had to pick a modern day SUV for tougher travels, which one would it be?

[LEOPARDUS]

What about a small town in the middle of nowhere on Sunday morning? Is that local auto parts store going to have the part that allows you to continue your trip?



My Expedition. 9.75 rear and 8.8 front.



'Cuz you can't go car camping unless you spend a ton of $$$$ on gear.



Don't all 2 speed transfer cases lock the front and rear when in low?

This site is for us to share and learn, maybe one day it will benefit others. Why showing a sensitive ego. Useless

 

[Johnboyy]

if you can get a 150 prado/land cruiser for your budget buy one and close the thread.

Mitsubishi are leaving europe, parts availablitly is only going to get worse and there's just no comparison in reliability between the toyota and a D3/4

I'm sure a D4 is marginally more refined but the toyota will be a lot cheaper to run.

Don't get me wrong, I love landys, have owned a few over the years but the toyota 150 is a very very good vehicle.

 

[86scotty]

Sounds like the OP is in Germany so this will likely be a stretch but I wouldn't buy any modern SUV. Why would you when full crew cab short box trucks do so much more? I have the room of a mid size SUV behind my driver's seat and then a short but worthy bed for anything I might need to carry outdoors, and it's not that big of a truck by modern standards. It's a half ton, I mean, and 19' long, 2.5' longer than a modern LC.

Yes, I realize my response here is very American. It's only recently that I drank the full size pick up Koolaid but they are smaller than all the vans I've had!

 

[alanymarce]

Mitsubishi got it right. I sincerely believe that the only reason that the Mitsubishi Montero Gen 1-2 and 3 are not the dominant SUV in America is that Mitsubishi did not do any marketing. For a major international car maker to win the Dakar Rally 7 times and almost no one in America ever heard of their vehicles is ridiculous. If it was Ford, Chevy or Toyota we would all know it.

Not true for "America" - maybe for the USA but in Colombia for example the Montero has an excellent reputation.

It appears that the OP is in Germany so that maybe changes the parts availability question for the pajero
My .02 is stay away from the Mitsubishis is you are going to the south-- into Africa or South America. I recently rid myself of a 2003 pajero in Guyana. It was terrible, parts availability was nil and no one would work on it.

I had a Pajero in Congo - not for long, it was while I was waiting for my Patrol, however it did a good job and spares were available (at the time, at least).

More the point, we asked ourselves the same question when wee bought our current vehicle - Nissan had reached their import limit so Patrols were out; the Jeep was not going to be comfortable enough for our 70% highway driving; the Montero had everything the Land Cruiser offered, and was HALF the price. We've driven our Montero around Australia as well as at home in Colombia.

re spares - if it never goes wrong spares are irrelevant... ours has needed almost no spares other than regular maintenance items. If it did I'm confident in being able to get them from Mitsubishi in much of the world (including where they're pulling out) or online.