4X4 drivers

**Bartman10** · 6th July 2005, 09:53

Check this guy out. Fairly typical of 4X4 dirvers!

**SpankMe** · 6th July 2005, 09:57

and he prick just keeps going. Should be dragged from his cage and shot.

A new law is needed. If ya want to drive a 4x4, you must first agree to be castrated.

**bugjuice** · 6th July 2005, 10:01

didn't look like a 4x4.. looks more like an S70 to me.
I've seen that clip before. I hope the driver was strung up by their bollox or tits and beaten with a spiky club.

If I were that car coming towards what just happened (heading away from the cam), I'd have stopped (as long as it was obvious what just happened) and beaten the crap out of them.

Just glad that copcam was there, else they would have got away with that

**Motu** · 6th July 2005, 10:03

Where does the 4x4 bit come in? All I see is a yellow Volvo car????

**Lou Girardin** · 6th July 2005, 12:46

It's just a bit of literary licence Motu, 4X4 owners are the new Volvo drivers.
But they are proving Darwin right.

**merv** · 6th July 2005, 12:59

They got no worries, Volvos are safe cars eh!! Just proves it!! Its buses that aren't safe to be on the road.

**White trash** · 6th July 2005, 13:08

Ummmm, was that people falling out of the front windscreen of the bus? Fucken 'ell, I hope no one was killed in that.

**Jantar** · 6th July 2005, 18:22

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

It's just a bit of literary licence Motu, 4X4 owners are the new Volvo drivers.
But they are proving Darwin right.

Here we go again. The complaints against 4x4 drivers came up a few months ago. However there are some of us who NEED a 4x4 for various reasons. In fact the only cage I own is a 4x4.

For those who are so much against them, please come and show me how to get to work in the winter with a 2WD cage, how to tow a horse float on the cavalcade wit a 2WD, etc.

**WINJA** · 6th July 2005, 18:45

MY STUPID PEWTER WONT LET ME PLAY VIDEO BUT I HOPE ITS NOT OF ME AND CRAZY STEVE TAKING A TEST DRIVE IN AN ISUZU , DID YOU KNOW THEY CAN SPIN ALL FOR WHEELS ON SOMEONES FRONT LAWN IN REVERSE?

**DingDong** · 6th July 2005, 19:12

freaky!

Might be WINJA and CrAzYsTeVe, Winja's obsesed with doing a runna

Hpoe what eva came out the front wasnt human

**Lou Girardin** · 7th July 2005, 09:25

Originally Posted by Jantar

Here we go again. The complaints against 4x4 drivers came up a few months ago. However there are some of us who NEED a 4x4 for various reasons. In fact the only cage I own is a 4x4.

For those who are so much against them, please come and show me how to get to work in the winter with a 2WD cage, how to tow a horse float on the cavalcade wit a 2WD, etc.

Unfortunately, those that need 4WD's suffer collaterall damage from the general loathing of most other road users
They're most anti-social vehicle that's allowed to use our roads, they kill out of proportion to their numbers, many owners openly admit that this is the reason they buy them, they use resources far more than normal cars, they exascerbate traffic congestion. But hell! It's a free country, isn't it?

**750Y** · 7th July 2005, 09:47

When i was looking for a new wagon my prerequisite was I needed a ute as it's the most practical wagon for my lifestyle, plus it's got to be 4 doors for the family, then it came down to 4wd or 2wd & given my old 2wd hilux would spin on wet grass loaded up, & believe me they get loaded up, I went 4wd. i can get it in/out the bottom paddock when it's boggy & lauch/retrieve my dinghy on a slippery boat ramp. I can also tow the tractor out if it gets stuck & go offroad & drive down the beach anytime, plus will be handy going skiing this year.
As for the size well that's it's only downfall really, although some think this is an advantage, I'm not convinced. I'd lower it but it'd ruin some of it's practicality. as far as the Remuera tractor brigade goes which is who this thread is probably aimed at, i see no reason to own one if you live in town & You don't do outdoor stuff.

**Motu** · 7th July 2005, 11:08

Being a long time rider of dual purpose bikes I'm suprised I didn't get a 4X4 earler,although I did have an RL Bedford 20 yrs ago,I used to drive around town and park in the city with it,the most impractacle 2 seater I've ever owned,but a lot of fun.The Pajero is cetainly the most practicle vehicle I've ever had - I can take up to 7 people,and often do,as that's the size of my family,the seats fold everywhich way and I can fit a suprising amount of crap in there,and even sleep,somewhat uncomfortably,on the double bed.It can tow some serious loads,taking a 17ft caravan a few weeks ago no worries.I don't go off road much,but use it to haul my dirt bikes onto farms etc.It's a great comfortable tourer and am now putting 1000km a week on it easily....tyres last forever and for it's size and weight returns 28mpg.I was full of scorn for 4X4s,remember my ''Dark Side'' thread? But now I see how useful they are I think I'll always have one now.Like my DP bikes,I see it as an all condition vehicle,it's ready for anything...anytime.

**TriumphMan** · 7th July 2005, 11:54

Hey, I've got a 4x4, but I used to drive heavy goods vehicles in the UK so I drive it with the same level of respect for it's limitations that I did when driving a truck. Most of the drivers of 4x4s I see driving around drive it as if it was a car. Therin lies the problem, it's not a car, it's a truck. I even went on a 4x4 training course with Land Rover Expereince in Rotorua. It should be compulsory to take and pass a test for vehicles of a certain shape and center of gravity. That would take a fair amount of them off the road and educate the rest. The crash in the video, however hideous, was not caused by a 4x4, it was caused by an idiot who pulled out in front of a bus who was too ignorant to realise that it couldn't slow down fast enough and would have to swerve. The accident could have been caused by a bicycle, motorbike or another car.