You bastards. Now you have me looking at first generation Cayennes. Did you know you can get them with a manual transmission?
3rd and 4th gen 4 Runner can be had pretty cheap and last forever.
haha yeah they look reeeeally good ! and f** rare in manual ! I am not a big off road guy, i dont know if it s an advantage or not in off road ?
LOVE this M5.... I have a manual 996 4S in France, just put 2500km in 10 days for christmas, amazing ! But I didn't like driving it in Paris haha
Nice. I looked seriously into a late-90s 996 4S in the early 2000s. Didn't pull the trigger. Went through a Z-car phase and ended up with the M5 several years later.
I think I put a little over 20k miles on my M5 over that work trip period. That included the cross-country drive back and forth, Maine to/from California, USA. The drive north to visit family in Los Angeles was terrible but I still love it. Now, traffic in my Ram truck gets a bit tiresome pretty quick.
Lexus Gx-470. Best stock 4 wheeler out there.
Probably cheapest and best bang for buck.
In a whole other league than a cayenne or LR3, but you may be looking for AWD and not 4x4.
Is this not a re-badged Land Cruiser?
Not sure why Jeep isn’t mentioned more in this thread. A stock Rubicon off the lot is far more capable and reliable than 90% of the modded mentioned so far.
I had a Cherokee XJ for a decade that took me to places for work that most people wouldn’t have dared- and that Jeep was bone stock with good AT tires.
If you really want to piss off the Hummer crowd, go with a lifted Mini Countryman All4-not a rock crawler but very capable for overland.
And this is mine:
Sensational daily driver, 6-speed manual (available through ‘19), a beast in foul weather and has taken many off-road trails easily. Will take up to 29” tires with stock suspension and with an M7 Speed 2” lift will accommodate up to 31’s. They also worked out most of the maladies of the earlier CM on this generation.
Did somebody say....FLEXus?
I’ve always been interested in off-roading but never had the rig to do it til now.
And this weekend, finally got the chance to take the wife’s new car out for its first real venture off of the pavement. It was a blast, despite being one of the more “mild” areas around us.
It actually looks really cool !
