Albynsw
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In fairness I haven’t seen the owners manual so there might be a setting to give some torque lockup but also being only 2L there is probably not a lot of resistance considering the vehicle weight
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In fairness I haven’t seen the owners manual so there might be a setting to give some torque lockup but also being only 2L there is probably not a lot of resistance considering the vehicle weight
Rusty Panels
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I know we've been over all the headlight tales before but, I stand by what I said ages ago about modern vehicle headlights being crap. They are built to be aesthetically pleasing with no consideration for function. You can get way better spread and output with the old 7" round headlights or the rectangular shaped ones if you fit decent globes to them. They perform better than anything most modern cars have on offer.Righto, come to the Atherton Tablelands to catch up with our son who lives there and are now driving a new Wildtrak
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It is one of the twin turbo 2 litre, 10 speed auto jobbies with all the bells and too many whistles. Nicely finished and drives well on the blacktop, there was always enough power to do what you wanted but didn’t feel like it had more than needed so don’t know how well they would tow.... maybe they do it fine??
I have done about 1800k with it over the last 5 days and has averaged 9.1l / 100k which is pretty good, it is a very low revving setup and always hunting the gears to keep you in the powerband but that seemed to be ok
I took it for a run up to Cooktown and camped at the Lions Den for the night. Came back through the Daintree on the Bloomfield track and have to say it was ordinary off-road, the ride is very harsh and could not imagine you could drive at speed on corrugated tracks outback in its current form. The other thing on steep country there is no engine breaking , even in manual mode in 1st it just runs away from you so you are always on the brakes which I don’t like much
The other bad point is the headlights , they are atrocious and dangerous. On low beam there is plenty of light for 10 metres directly in front of you but it is a sharp focused light that leaves it totally jet black outside of that and you can’t see the road in front of you, high beam is the standard of light you get on low beam in every other vehicle I have been in. Don’t know what they are thinking but a dolphin torch out the window would be an improvement on the light output.
Driving up the mountain range from Cairns I had to tailgate the car in front so that I stayed on the road
The other annoying feature which I assume you can turn off is all the warning bells and alarms of watch out when reversing, it tells you to stop and have a coffee break every now and then, when you turn off the ignition it tells you to check and remember to take your kids from the back seat etc etc , no biggy but annoying just the same
Anyone know how this model compares to the 3.2 litre 6 speed option?
It is an absolute must to have auxiliary lights on anything if you drive at night nowadays.
If by auxiliary lights you mean the fog lights, then it's illegal to turn them on unless there's fog or mist, in NSW anyway.
cam04
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There isn’t. It is a well published weak point of that setup. The 3.2 doesn’t better the 2.0 anywhere on paper. It is however a good, lazy motor that hangs onto gears fine and is a relaxed cruiser. The newer smaller diesels rev better and have wider torque bands. They are a bit frenetic though.
Rusty Panels
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No mate! Driving lights and light bars are what I meant!