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Gday all, well like most first posters I have a few question etc. In the market for new 4WD currently driving a Mitso Delica diesel (yer i hear the sighs and word of blasphemer) to make it worse I owned 2 of them (only 1 to sell now). But to be fair there pretty capable off road car but I’m over them now.
Fuel consumption been pretty well covered from what I’ve read so far, expect about 10-11L/100Ks a little more for heavy work, been looking for while at several offerings in the market and sort of have narrowed it down to 3. One is the GXL Prado manual diesel or a series 100 landie post may 2006 manual turbo diesel and the latest 70 series GXL.
The 5 speed box compared to the 6 speed box would it be fair to say there would be a marginal increase in fuel economy using a 6 speed box?
Rust after having a look at one second hand one I noticed so minor rust nothing of note, but I believe it may have been with the previous owners activities (beach driving) so apart from the exhaust manifolds what’s the go with rust any bad news stories out there?
Approach and departure angles looking at the 100 and 200 and then Prado I suspect the Prado has better departure angle would this be true? (Fairly important do a fair bit of road stuff).
Apart from the ZD Nissan motors blowing up I’m yet to find anything about the Toyota Diesel (well the D4D anyways) again any horror stories out there?
Would it be fair to say the Prado is basically a smaller version of the 100 series Landies the main difference I could see was the width (apart from length, I don’t count an extra 40mm a lot and no there’s no follow up needed quoting what a ladies response would be ) and a little lower (5mm) ?
Properly one for the wife’s/partners to answer visibility out the back any probs?. Height limits on car parks unfortunately my Delica has a 2 in lift and accessing anything less than 2.2M is a no go, but the specs say under 2M this is correct I assuming (and not paying truck tolls towing a trailer would be nice as well).
Towing well the poor old Delica just doesn’t have it in her to tow anything more than a small box trailer we now have a new off road trailer and its dry weight is 350Kgs and all the usual stuff when going away brings it up to just under 700Kgs crawling up hills with fully loaded semis overtaking us is just embarrassing and a pest to other road users, any probs anyone can see with towing?
Roo strikes will have a steel bull bar fitted not the cosmetic alloy bar anyone had the miss fortune and the resulting damage was? I do an annual trip to Tibooburra prospecting and last time nearly hit 4 roos and some crazy Emus not to mention goats, sheep and cattle. I won’t mention the amount of bird/bat strikes thou.
Other question will be answered when the wife and myself have a test drive (extended one not round the block) something that only yourself can answer.
Not to many questions I hope, but as this will be a fairly long term vehicle new family car need to make the right choice (fairly confident the Prados the go)
Dropped into the local dealer who had a selection of Prados, 100 series and 200 series, as I was by myself checked out the seating room the 100 and 200 series plenty of space side to side and larger seats (to be expected as it’s a wider vehicle) but found the leg room on all to be fairly similar. The rear seats on all are pretty useless due to age of our kids so I don’t really include them in the scheme of things.
One thing I keep looking at the Prado then the landies and so forth, the Prado just looks small but seems large? is it me or do I really need them glasses Still haven’t worked that out yet really bizarre any ways rambling on now.
Regards
John
Fuel consumption been pretty well covered from what I’ve read so far, expect about 10-11L/100Ks a little more for heavy work, been looking for while at several offerings in the market and sort of have narrowed it down to 3. One is the GXL Prado manual diesel or a series 100 landie post may 2006 manual turbo diesel and the latest 70 series GXL.
The 5 speed box compared to the 6 speed box would it be fair to say there would be a marginal increase in fuel economy using a 6 speed box?
Rust after having a look at one second hand one I noticed so minor rust nothing of note, but I believe it may have been with the previous owners activities (beach driving) so apart from the exhaust manifolds what’s the go with rust any bad news stories out there?
Approach and departure angles looking at the 100 and 200 and then Prado I suspect the Prado has better departure angle would this be true? (Fairly important do a fair bit of road stuff).
Apart from the ZD Nissan motors blowing up I’m yet to find anything about the Toyota Diesel (well the D4D anyways) again any horror stories out there?
Would it be fair to say the Prado is basically a smaller version of the 100 series Landies the main difference I could see was the width (apart from length, I don’t count an extra 40mm a lot and no there’s no follow up needed quoting what a ladies response would be ) and a little lower (5mm) ?
Properly one for the wife’s/partners to answer visibility out the back any probs?. Height limits on car parks unfortunately my Delica has a 2 in lift and accessing anything less than 2.2M is a no go, but the specs say under 2M this is correct I assuming (and not paying truck tolls towing a trailer would be nice as well).
Towing well the poor old Delica just doesn’t have it in her to tow anything more than a small box trailer we now have a new off road trailer and its dry weight is 350Kgs and all the usual stuff when going away brings it up to just under 700Kgs crawling up hills with fully loaded semis overtaking us is just embarrassing and a pest to other road users, any probs anyone can see with towing?
Roo strikes will have a steel bull bar fitted not the cosmetic alloy bar anyone had the miss fortune and the resulting damage was? I do an annual trip to Tibooburra prospecting and last time nearly hit 4 roos and some crazy Emus not to mention goats, sheep and cattle. I won’t mention the amount of bird/bat strikes thou.
Other question will be answered when the wife and myself have a test drive (extended one not round the block) something that only yourself can answer.
Not to many questions I hope, but as this will be a fairly long term vehicle new family car need to make the right choice (fairly confident the Prados the go)
Dropped into the local dealer who had a selection of Prados, 100 series and 200 series, as I was by myself checked out the seating room the 100 and 200 series plenty of space side to side and larger seats (to be expected as it’s a wider vehicle) but found the leg room on all to be fairly similar. The rear seats on all are pretty useless due to age of our kids so I don’t really include them in the scheme of things.
One thing I keep looking at the Prado then the landies and so forth, the Prado just looks small but seems large? is it me or do I really need them glasses Still haven’t worked that out yet really bizarre any ways rambling on now.
Regards
John
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