Top Gear Polar Special

[Toy-Yoda[RL]]

Hiro: This is me being biased again, H1's fail too.

 

[7shades]

H2's are utterly tragic. I spent far too much time (and fuel money) in one when I was in the states. Most of the external panels are plastic... including the entire flip front bonnet.

So look at it this way... you have a plastic car with the aerodynamics of a brick, plonked on a 25 year old ladder bar chassis, running a 30 year old big block chev engine.

 

For 60 grand.

 

GM execs must still be laughing every time they sell one.

 

As for the H1, I used to drive them when I worked for an off road tour company up here. Did trips on public roads up to cape york and also little day trips bashing around the rainforest scaring little japanese girls. Hilarious. The company bought 10 of them... ex ADF... from when they imported a whole bunch to evaluate for use by our army. They failed.

Thankfully, they decided to stick with the perenties.

 

I haven't worked there in a year or two, but I still say g'day every now and then, and out of the original 10, 8 are out of service. 4 of those 8 have been cannibalised to keep the last 2 running...

 

He's gone back to landcruisers now :lolcry:

[Hiro Protagonist]

As a military vehicle (ie HMMWV or Humvee), they are excellent. As a consumer product, they are a joke.

 

I'd take a military-spec one 4WD, but not a H1. Spartan interior FTW, just flip and hose out. Portal gears, high-mount radiator and snorkel means that if your legs aren't wet, the creek isn't deep enough.

[7shades]

These 10 were Mil spec... 4 seats and nothing else.

Controls are very american... two pedals (go, stop) gearlever with two positions (forward, backward) and a stupidly thin rimmed steering wheel.

Off road, they're incredible... but not for very long... Unless you have a US army maintenance division to fix it every time you take it out.

[love ke70]

hmmwv suck too, theyre too heavy and just get stuck unless on gravel.

 

smaller jeeps are very good when worked. i watched a twinlocked jeep with longarm front end in it and some nice 33's make some shit look easy that LWB twin locked patrols on 35's took about an hour to do.

 

but then the jeep got stuck too. don't write them off too easily...