Haakon
has an accommodating arse
To be fair most of my raised 4WD style vehicle experience is in 70 series which are not exactly optimised for on road use, but have spent enough hours piloting hiluxes and old prados etc to know I fucking hate these things as a road car. You can feel just how tenuous their relationship is with traction and stability on anything vaguely resembling a corner.I have spent over 6 hours on the highway driving in the rain these last two days. It has made me realise I am doing the car thing all wrong. The fastest class of vehicle in the hissing down rain is dual cab utes. Preferably unladen but if you need to cart anything attach a dual axle pig trailer. No need to worry about standing water, driving rain, indicators, acting like a human. Etc. And the pick of the crop? The Ranger Raptor. Bespoke Fox suspension, obviously hand grooved wets, the driving skills of Hannu Mikkola. And some magic to keep the driving rain off the windscreen.
Watching the Ranger bros pelt these things into corners full tilt you just know how close to the ragged edge they are. Modern electronics are a problem in that they hide physics to a point and you may not realise how close to the limit you are until you find it suddenly in a terminal fashion… Brain dead operators don’t help.