As the title states but the decision in not an easy one.
Currently we have a 2011 ST patrol with heaps of fruit on it.
It's pretty much fully decked out as a tourer and a very capable offroad vehicle.
Short rundown.. It's got all round and top barwork, ARB suspension, mickey Thompson tyres, UHF radio, lights, cargo barrier, exhaust and engine mods, dual battery's, winch, diff locks recovery points.... Etc etc you get the idea.
We love going real 4wding on the weekend and not afraid to take it up some hard tracks and pick the difficult lines and the bush pinstripes (much to the wifes disgust) are proof of that. We also play while out 4wding looking for the challenging lines just for fun, the young fella loves it!
I can fairly confidently point this thing at almost any track and up anything and be confident that we can get up there and back in One piece.
BUT,
While it is still a nice and comfortable car to get around in general and i quite like driving it, It's the wife's daily and its a handful for her driving around town. It's big, heavy, slow, noisy and uses more fuel than a modern turbo diesel car should.
She loves the fridge permanently in the back, and the huge amount of space to put The kids stuff in without issue.
Now a prado is so much nicer and onroad, friendly, safer, more powerful and fuel efficient and yes quite a capable offroad 4wd but I'm afraid if I sell the patrol that this prado, which will remain fairly standard won't satisfy our love for hard 4wding.
Will I regret doing this??
