Ok while i am aware that many of us here do not follow off roading, or are niot a fan of it, here is a question for you. You are stuck in the middle of a barren wasteland , infront of you are a number of vehicles such as landcruisers, prados, discoveries, and troopers. In order to cross you must pick a vehicle. What would you chose? the reason i put it like this is that if i asked a question about stock suv's everyone would talk about how they are to live with, well i want to know what you would choose during a life and death situation. Personally i would go for a land rover discovery, it's history is undeniable. So how about you, what would you use for an off roading adventure

 

Humvee (mil-spec hummer) for me!!



If not, then the normal Hummer H1 will do

 

In the middle of a barren wasteland, such as African deserts, I'd go for the Land Cruiser, which is the pick of many out there, with an established reputation for surviving some of the most inhospitable climates on earth.

 

Choosing the Land Rover Discovery almost assures that you will break down in the wilderness and die from thirst or starvation. The Land Cruiser will get you to your destination.
Steve

 

Land Rover Defender 110 all the way.

 

fine.... a escalade with 24 inch rims......... wait never mind i don't want to get shot if not the discovery. then maybe a hilux diesel or prado or landcruiser. I would say the old school g wagon since there isn't much on it that could break, but i dont think there would be anything wrong with me traveling in a bit more comfort haha

 

While over-exaggerated, there is indeed some truth to this statement. Land Rovers, especially the super-comfortable and competent Range Rover, do in fact have questionable reliability. They are marvelous for off-road comfort and sophistication, but tend to suffer electrical and hardware defects. The old Land Rovers that you see in films and stories slogging across Africa and other remote Third-World places have little or nothing in common with modern Land Rover products, which are obviously much more comfortable but not necessarily as reliable.

The Toyota Land Cruiser and Lexus LX570 are also super-capable off-road and are head-and-shoulders above Land Rovers in reliability, but, considering their superb paint jobs (Toyota-Lexus does some of the best ones in the industry), would you really want to take one out in the boonies where it could get all scratched up?

The old Mercedes G-Wagon (Gelandewagen) combines a tanklike body/frame structure and extremely heavy-duty components....like front/center/rear locking differentials combined....but is getting hard to find as the newer (and less durable) G-class replaces it.

And, of course, the Jeep Wrangler is an ever-popular vehicle with the off-road crowd (statistics show that Wrangler owners go off-road perhaps more often than owners of any other SUV), but even with newer, more civilized features, it is still primitive by modern standards, uncomfortable, and its reliability generally falls in between that of the less unreliable Land Rovers and the more reliable Toyota Land Cruisers.

 

This would be my choice.

 

I would go with the Range Rover. Why not be comfortable while you are getting out of trouble. The great thing about the Range Rover is that you can drive directly from trouble to Morton's and not look out of place.

I am partial though

 

I'd say Land Cruiser... just because it's a Toyota. But honestly I don't have ANY experience off road and have no idea which off roader is better than any other.

 

The Tumbler

 

My FJ Cruiser!

 

I'd choose an Army 6x6 dualie pick up.

 

Not if you had relatively narrow spaces to get through, you wouldn't.

 

i'm heavily into wheeling and if the choices are limited to stock vehicles or very mildly modded (tires and small lift) i'd go with any of the foreign market toyota's which still have a solid front axle and available factory electric lockers. the BJ70 is my favorite.
range/land rover? fuggedaboudit, i'd like to make it to my destination without suffering from non off road related breakdowns. besides, none of them have true lockers or solid axles anymore. while they are capable for what they have, i want the reliability and durability of solid axles and true locking diffs, not electronic anti wheel spin controls.
H1? nah, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpxoomyFs_0