best pickup truck

[Chris P]

Hilux is supreme

 

navara - pimp mobile

 

Yep, what he said

[Pro Gard]

I have a Navara,all I would describe it as is OK.

 

Paintwork and interior poor, sidewindows mist, bad turning circle.

 

plus points are its quick and tows ok.

 

Overall I probably wouldnt buy another.

[Highland Forestry]

Hi-Lux is an awesome truck - good offroad and good sloggers.

Very light on the back end, but great on the hill.

 

Navaras are **** - they blow up for fun - Majorly expensive parts.

Often blow up after 70,000m I know a guy who has just had the crank go through his sump.

 

L200's are better than the Navara but also ****, also blow up for fun - telephone numbers for prices on parts.

I have a 2002 L200, I love it unfortunatley but she is so expensive on parts and after 100,000M theyre pretty much knackered.

 

Ford Ranger - The Forestry Commission's favourite motor - great offroad and serious work horses, used throughout the country by the FC rangers.

Also used by councils, network rail and utility companies.

 

Mazda - a ford in disguise (or is it the other way round?)

 

Landrover - practical but uncomfortable, expensive and more often than not unreliable electronically.

 

just MHO

[garth mc garth]

When i was in australia i worked part time as a fitter in a 4x4 workshop preparing trucks for overland trips around australia. i found that the toyotas whether it be hilux or land cruiser were down on power in relation to the other maunufacturers equivalent model but were the only one that was able to put up with constant abuse. nissan patrols were damned good in either chassis cab or conventional style. l200 and shoguns steering and suspension werent built very tough and i was regularly doing replacements.

[Mr Ed]

Patrol is the king of the hill. I want a pickup version.

[gibbon]

I had a kingcab patrol in Costa Rica in the late 90s it was awsome. Even got us in to town after hurricane mitch. Do they still make em?

[garth mc garth]

we had a patrol pick up for running diesel out to the skidder for the firm i used to work for in New South Wales and even with a 1000 litre bunded fuel bowser in the back it would pull like hell on hills

[Pro Gard]

Anyone drive an Isuzu rodeo

[Graham]

Got an L200 but would swap for this anyday. One tough workhorse.

[Rowden the cowboy]

Hilux is supreme

 

navara - pimp mobile

 

And the problem with this is??? I am really a pimp in a tree surgeons body. In all fairness the navara is awful offroad largely due to its low ground clearance and road biased tyres, but then most of my work is urban and the navara is mostly for show anyway. That said, I had a landrover before this that was truly terrifying to drive above 60mph and broke all the time, whilst my experience of l200s is that they are baffled by corners:god help anyone trying to negotiate a roundabout at speed in one. Then the hi-lux...They are almost as slow as landrovers! They are so gutless and weedy. Really i am right when I say that the navara is the best of a bad bunch although a hairdressers motor. I think the D40 is much improved over the old D22 that seemed to blow up after 60,000 and its only drawback is the stupid interior tie down system: why couldn't they have just given me rope hooks or tiedown rails like everyone else?