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Just gave up my SUV What s next
Back in the very early 80's my father bought a Suzuki pickup version of the Samurai for a utility vehicle at the farm. When I questioned the purchase he told me the dealer (a friend of his) hadn't been able to sell it, it was a year old, and so sold it to him for something rediculous like $5,200 just to get it off the lot. It was the funniest thing you ever saw, it had a sheet metal box with fold down sides, it was only about 4' square.
The workers all chuckled politely over it, until they drove it, one by one they realized it weighed so little it would go anywhere.
The chuckles stopped completely when they got one of the combines stuck taking out some corn late one fall, an early snow had covered a wet patch and the mud it was in was 2' deep, it was truly stuck. When they radioed back to get the big tow cable brought out a guy brought it out in the Suzuki. Then there was the problem of getting the cable out & hooked up, one guy got in the box of the Suzuki while a second person drove right to the combine and then backed up close enough to hook up without even stepping out!
It never so much as spun for a second, just rolled right along on top of the snow, in & out as easy as could be.
After that they took that thing place that you would think twice about in anything else, it was eventually replaced (the body 'biodegraded') by a Honda 4 wheeler, but to this day the guys still say the Suzuki was a better machine.
A lot of Japanese equipment is like that, I've heard the Subabru's are the same, just look at Subabru's parent company Fuji Heavy Industries, world leaders in almost everything they do.
Best of luck.
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Just gave up my SUV What s next
Funny how that weight thing works, my boat is a little over 5 tons but it floats (mostly) over the top of the water just fine..... MAO .....
In fact it is right out of the water completely sometimes... then my wife yells at me to slow down...  .
Adrenaline is a controlled substance .... she only lets me have it in small doses......
I have a t-shirt she doesn't like much, but I wear it anyways, it says "My wife came with instructions, LOTS & LOTS of instructions!"
I often thought I'd like to try that sand racing stuff, then I realized they don't put fridges or stereos in those buggys, how do you keep the ....errr, grape juice, cold?
That and the women wear to much clothing in that sport...
Best of luck.
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