leftturn109

in your opinion What is The best off road vehicle what has the most capibility and please give reasons

Peryn

Jeep Wrangler Rubicon. I dont think my breif summary of the reasons why could do it justice.

Incredible articulation, tires, lift, and unlimited potential. Very affordable too. Locking diffs (front and rear i believe). Awesome gearing and an engine with a lovely amount of low end torque ( almost 85% of usable torque at idle).

__________________
Dont cry kid, It's not your fault you suck.

iamtheone

Stock, hands down Mercedes Benz Amg55 or the old Land Rover Defenders.

__________________
Music is holy, art is sacred, and creativity is power...

Think for Yourself Question Authority

pocon1

I don't believe Mercedes's ml series minivans would do well offroad. Neither would their soccer moms. However, a Mercedes g-wagen would do well. Deisel, and built originally for the Shah of Iran's border guards. When he was deposed, Mercedes was stuck with the vehicles. So they turned around and started selling them.

Jeep sounds good. Maybe a land rover

Nimisys

the h1 would be on the short list, a look under the truck shows it seems to have been built solely to get the engine where ever the fuck it wants to go. passanger sitting outside and below the frame rails are a testiment to that. not to mention geared hub providing torque multiplication and additional clearnce.

Tech

H1 (as said above) hands down

__________________
-Tim-

~I swear sometimes i feel like i'm married to a child.
~You better watch who you're calling a child, Lois, cause if i'm a child than you know what that makes you? a pedophile. and i'll be damned if i'm going to stand here and be lectured by a pervert.

Gnzo

Not saying this is the best stock offroad, but the Toyota Tacoma TRD was named 4x4 of the year in 2000 by 4-Wheeler Mag as well as Off Road Mag, edging out the H1.

Peryn

Yeah, but you can be sure they factored price into it. The H1 is great and all, but as with the G-Wagen, its just not realistic to most everyone.

__________________
Dont cry kid, It's not your fault you suck.

THGL

One of the keys to being a good "offroader" is size, or lack of it actually.

The G-wagon and Hummer H1 may be able to run sand dunes and dirt roads with aplomb, but send them up a real TRAIL and their size will stop them in a heartbeat. They're too long and with the H1 too wide.

Back in college I owned an '88 Suzuki Samurai and was able to take up dirtbike trails in the mountains. There's no way an H1 could fit between the trees like the Sami did.

Since they don't make the Samurai anymore, my vote goes to the Jeep Wrangler (I also owned a '01 Wrangler Sport so I have experience with it as well). It's bigger than the Sami, but with the 4.0L six and coil sprung suspension it can't be beat.

__________________
"The truth is merely an excuse for lack of imagination." - Garak

MSD

Just remember, you take the Rubicon off-road and it voids your warranty.

THGL

BS

I believe that if you subject your Rubicon (or any Jeep or other 4x4) to anything excessive and it breaks it won't be covered.

__________________
"The truth is merely an excuse for lack of imagination." - Garak

todd

Hummer H1 is definitly the toughest.

As for my own opinon, if I was able to pick any 1 offroad vehicle I wanted, I'd pick the '78 Toyota Landcruiser FJ40. I love those things.

joshibahn

pinzgauer.....hands down.....prices start around $9k....do a google search

__________________
TFP=heaven

Heaven, n 1: the abode of God and the angels and the souls of those who have gained salvation 2: any place of complete bliss and delight and peace [syn: eden, paradise, nirvana, promised land, Shangri-la]

todd

Yea unimogs are pretty cool. Heres a couple videos of some similar things in action, for anybody who is interested.

http://www.vintageoffroad.com/videos/uni.wmv
http://www.vintageoffroad.com/videos/rockwall.wmv

shakran

Dirt bike. If it can't go somewhere, you can probably push it there and then keep riding it. Try that with your Wrangler

Or those 6-wheeled amphibious ATV's. You can climb around on the mountains, then cross the lake for the downward trail.

BooRadley

Since you said "OFF-ROAD" and not "FOUR WHEELERS/4x4s" I will include some off-beat suggestions.

Tractors can get absolutely anywhere. Dual-wheeled rear tractors are unlikely to get stuck in anything, and can climb ridiculous grades.

If tractors aren't your type, and you don't care so much about speed, then go for a Rokon motorcycle is two wheel drive, has a 15-16 inch ground clearance, tremendously huge low pressure tires that will allow flotation in water ( get off and float it across a stream, go figure ), and can climb ridiculous grades.

Here's a link.
http://www.rokon.com/products/trailbrkr.htm

Of course they only can go 20-40 mph in top gear, but they can get into places no jeeps/mercedes benzes/cars can. Oh yeah, it can tow 3,000 pounds too.

Of course, a 4x4 ATV with a winch is unlikely to get stuck anywhere, and hauls ass...

Boo

My personal favorite is my Polaris 500 H/O.

[IMG]http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0PQAGA5URWQtxsGCOxMGoofmqxagp5X2o*ufwEdTbeYQJNqbi3BBjfbrIXBALdeimnljKF16jLi*rSNrJgSTo*AITAQKu1QAh/FROZEN.jpg?dc=4675473617431073125[/IMG]

It actually does very well in snow, mud and sand dunes!

__________________
Back button again, I must be getting old.

BoomTruck

Oh, it is entirely possible to stick a tractor. It just takes a little more effort.

An articulated 4 wheel drive with duals on all corners sitting up to the belly pan in mud is NOT a pretty sight.

__________________
Judge me all you want, but keep the verdict to yourself.

leftturn109

htose are awsome

BooRadley

Terrifying. What do you do then? Call another tractor?

todd

You'd have to be a huge dumbass to even try to drive through something like that.

etla

Good thing he had a snorkle

__________________
Subvert the Dominant Paradigm

gdr2004

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scite...tv_040322.html

BooRadley

I have never seen natural mud that deep. That is frightning. A rokon could go through it!

BoomTruck

That's not a snorkel, that's the exhaust. From the look of what it's sitting in, and the honeywagon in there with it, it's not in mud....

It's in a manure pit.

Most of those pictures in that are dumbass attacks, although the 8630 (i think) in the bottom picture is forgivable. It looks like he found the only wet spot in the field, since the smaller tractor in the background seems to be doing just fine.

And he is going to need something along the lines of a D8 Caterpillar to drag him out of that hole.

__________________
Judge me all you want, but keep the verdict to yourself.

silent_jay

The Unimog is the best off road IMO

__________________
Absence makes the heart grow fonder

orangeaidcow

I love some of the others and i know this will be an interesting idea, but for the price i paid and how well it worked with n problems and how badly i beat it senseless
i loved my old trooper
that thing just kept on going even after i crushed my two rear shocks cracked the rear struts killed the muffler and popped a tire all on one 6 foot jump off a launch and that thing still keep going with a tire change...

__________________
Killing is not an answer, its a solution.

castex

The Land Rover Defender is the best there is offroad.

Super Model

Actually, the Toyota Land C is pretty good for an off-road action. But, the G-Wagon or the H1 or H2 are trully the of-road types.

silent_jay

Leave the H2 off that list and it looks good.

I saw a Hummer (the real one) in Ottawa awhile ago, and on his winch he had the words " Attach H2 Here". It was the best thing I've seen in quite sometime. Even Hummer owners don't really like the H2 drivers.

__________________
Absence makes the heart grow fonder