ALL FOR ADVENTURE.....Simpson desert

[GBC]

Now that the Canter 4x4 is back and improved I'd think the Ivecos will take a big back seat again. For carrying weigh a 6x6 with articulation is going to belt a 4x4 simply because the psi on the ground is less. Have you ever seen a Tatra 6x6 in action?

[Rumpig]

Sorry for the rant. It makes my blood boil every time I see 4wd TV and that knob Simon Christie say how good it is

just like every other show talking up the free 4wd's they have been given, never hear a bad word about the vehicles do ya...lol.

[PWE]

just like every other show talking up the free 4wd's they have been given, never hear a bad word about the vehicles do ya...lol.

I always wondered why no-one have a Great Wall, Mahindra or SSANGYONG Actyon Sports as a show pony.

[plusnq]

I always wondered why no-one have a Great Wall, Mahindra or SSANGYONG Actyon Sports as a show pony.

Can’t be far away. I know of a Great Wall that did the Canning Stock Route. What’s the bet it is a second vehicle on a crew “ for evaluation”.

All the vehicles are compromises. We just have to choose what is important to us at the time.

[trinityalyce]

All the vehicles are compromises. We just have to choose what is important to us at the time.

Truer words haven't been spoken. Who can say they like everything about their vehicle? Is anyone out there actually driving their car completely stock and loving it in all its glory, or have we made modifications to the car we can justify/afford/was the best option for us at the time?

I love our Patrol... but there sure are things I'd change about it... and there's a lot of things we HAVE changed.

For some people, a Great Wall might be "the best they can afford". Good on them. I think it was on here (could have been one of the other forums I'm on) someone posted a photo in one of my threads of a lady driving remote in her little Jimny (I think it was a tag-along?). I wouldn't dream of touring in mine! But that is what the previous owners of my car did with it... and it suited them fine.

[Bird]

I always wondered why no-one have a Great Wall, Mahindra or SSANGYONG Actyon Sports as a show pony.

there was a chick trying to sell one setup as a B&S ute few years ago.. **** she copped hell over it.. spent thousands on doing it up.. but it was still a pig with 1/2 lipstick on it

[Humphreythebear]

Not to be a knob Mr Bird ....
But people buy chinese campers ....
not defending them - but everyone has a price point that they can justify , whether to themselves or their other half .

" babe/darl/luv/hon , ive got to get a landcruiser with a bar n winch n lights and drawers with a fridge , a 2 way then we'll need a lift and new tyres "
coz im making memories with you , luv/darl/hon/babe .

"can i buy a camper ? "

'Go buy anything you like , dont spend more than $5 grand ! '

 

[03GV]

I see Jase's landcruiser from last year is for sale for $140,000 .

[McGirr]

These days its purely lets get free gear and paid a fortune and do a show.

Miss the good old days of Malcolm Douglas etc where it was an adventure show with no advertising or promotional crap just great locations and great fishing with basic gear. Always laughed when he had pliers to use a frypan on a fire.

Must be getting old as the new shows do nothing for me.

Mark

[tracker]

These days its purely lets get free gear and paid a fortune and do a show.

Miss the good old days of Malcolm Douglas etc where it was an adventure show with no advertising or promotional crap just great locations and great fishing with basic gear. Always laughed when he had pliers to use a frypan on a fire.

Must be getting old as the new shows do nothing for me.

Mark

   X2....... Cheers Tracker.

[Craig Tomkinson]

Gee I do not know which Malcolm Douglas you watched all the ones I have seen were full of sponcers gear, His Toyota, his Trailcraft boat, the outboards the oils he used , the winches, the tyre and tire changer, come to think of it everything on the show had sutle ads for the lot, even his croc farm, but great show anyway, You got to remember this load and in your face stile is all for the yanky market, Steve Irwin was the master of it, Craig

[wakychapmans]

Gee I do not know which Malcolm Douglas you watched all the ones I have seen were full of sponcers gear, His Toyota, his Trailcraft boat, the outboards the oils he used , the winches, the tyre and tire changer, come to think of it everything on the show had sutle ads for the lot, even his croc farm, but great show anyway, You got to remember this load and in your face stile is all for the yanky market, Steve Irwin was the master of it, Craig

three words...

Bush Tucker Man.

not one ad. Not one promo...

great hat.

[vern]

three words...

Bush Tucker Man.

not one ad. Not one promo...

great hat.

Great car too

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[DaveR]

Great car too

And great books.!

I must admit, I have now watched the 2 episodes for this season of A4A, and they are the only ones I have seen. I don't mind it as they aren't knobs like the hat, who I can't watch.
Although the A4A boys need to improve on their comedy routine, the coffee thing was kind of funny, but how is he not gonna know about the van being unhitched. 

[Bird]

three words...

Bush Tucker Man.

not one ad. Not one promo...

great hat.

yup, was watching some last night actually! Imagine what you could learn from a 2 week trip with him LOL

PS... still have his hat here

[03GV]

Just watching the simpson episode and as mentioned above, they definitely wiched alot more than they show. Because Simons winch rope is in all sorts of differnt positions throughout.

[Rumpig]

Just watching the simpson episode and as mentioned above, they definitely wiched alot more than they show. Because Simons winch rope is in all sorts of differnt positions throughout.

my guess is they winched plenty on that crossing, but show how much they really did it and they'd likely cop a massive backlash about it. When they did that crossing earlier this year, a mate who deals with them told me Vaughan who owns MDC / Aus RV was getting ready to cop a heap of criticism for them taking the van over......I'd say they decided to show some of the winching but not make out they struggled that much to limit any outcry.

[GBC]

Great car too

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I spent some time with the camera crew in 1989 up the cape. The number of shots where the crew’s troopys had already driven through, set up the shot and watched the Landy get stuck were comical.

[vern]

I spent some time with the camera crew in 1989 up the cape. The number of shots where the crew’s troopys had already driven through, set up the shot and watched the Landy get stuck were comical.

90% of the time I have seen it the opposite, where a stock landy goes and a cruiser gets stuck. Its quite comical

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[GBC]

Best 4wd in the world with the royal engineers fixing them each night. Then again so would a Great Wall. How did the camera get there......

[DaveR]

I wonder what the skin cancer folk think about the shows with the guys being sunburnt most of the time. 

[doc evil]

Gee I do not know which Malcolm Douglas you watched all the ones I have seen were full of sponcers gear, His Toyota, his Trailcraft boat, the outboards the oils he used , the winches, the tyre and tire changer, come to think of it everything on the show had sutle ads for the lot, even his croc farm, but great show anyway, You got to remember this load and in your face stile is all for the yanky market, Steve Irwin was the master of it, Craig

You forgot the main one that he had plastered everywhere...........AMPOL.


But still, no real plugging of products unlike the current crop. Can't even fast forward as you think the ads are part of the show (and vice versa)

[Craig Tomkinson]

Yep true,  Great show old Malcolm's was, his and bush Tuckerman, Craig

[trinityalyce]

Product placement is everywhere. Even in your blockbuster movies and "mainstream" TV shows that have nothing to do with the actual product. That brand of drink the character is drinking? Advertising right there. Just like all the "social media celebrities" getting paid to drive around in Juicy camper vans or promote certain regions to their 10k Insta followers...

I'd rather them come right out and say it in a way that's clearly advertising. The "grey area" of disclosure of sponsored/paid promotion in the social media world is rather frustrating, and many do it in such a way that is ambiguous (or just don't mention any disclosure at all).

[Craig Tomkinson]

Hi Ttle, Yes it everywhere, I was lucky to get a start writing for a small QLD fishing mag that sells around 25,000 copies a month in QLD and NSW and the NT, 12 or 14 year ago now, The owners tried to get all the there writers to disclose who they were sponsored by it never happened, What I have found the one with the brownest lips wins, Craig