So, how can you judge the best 4x4 rig if your four wheeling experiences are at best, from the moderate trails of the NE?
Sir, i was not saying toyotas are the best 4x4 rigs. i was merely pointing out a strong point.
Also, the mud out here gets as deep and as difficult as anywhere. Commmon wheelin' here is old logging roads in the middle of a thunderstorm. Sure we don't have any big dry rocks, but its a different kind of difficult.
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Sorry but I have to chime in here. I constantly hear about New England trails being so easy. Its so flat out here, theres no rocks, theres no super soft sand.
Well some of that is true. But we have our own difficulties. We have things called trees which sometimes grow so close together you scrape as you pass through them. These tress have roots, and roots in a mud hole(which do get deep out here) present just as much trouble as say a nice dry rock that is kinda in your way out west, but there is a way around that rock just for those people who cant make it. Out here once you get onto a trail up here in NH you are commited to see it through or else you are giving up your truck to the enviroment. Adn there usualyl is only one path becasue our trails are in between trees not in a desert.
New Hampshire is also known as the Granite state. For good reason, there is a lot of granite here. That means there are rocks in some places, and as EightyEight said we wheel a lot in rain. Granite in the rain is just as slick as any other rock when wet.
As for the Class 6 roads at 45. I dont drive a yota, being a montero guy, but I have done them at about 30 and it is incredibly violent and my montero held up just fine.
OH and just about every trail out here you absolutly cannot go off the path. IF you do you eitehr fall 100 feet into a river, sink 10 feet into a pond that drops off instatnly right next to the trail, or you end up falling onto rocks or trees. The trails out here are hard, not in a rockcrawling sort of way but in the way that no one wheels new vehicles out here for a reason.
As for best 4x4, out here toytas, and moneteros are the best. You do not want a small rig like a Rubicon on some of the trails with steep hill climbs. Not unless you like being inverted that is. Every 4x4 has its place. Monteros are constantly winning in Dakar, and doing some slower rock crawling just as easily as some jeeps that are constantly used for rock crawling. Zuks are coming up in the world and are Isuzus which im seeing more of a lot lately.
However in factory stock form, I would have to say toyotas or Monteros would do better than a jeep in most places. And that is an unbiased belief supplied by expierence.
