Cowboy,
My story isn’t half as much action as your experience, but it also suggests that Pajeros are great cars.
We had a get-together of our prof. society of our district on Friday. It was a “bring the wife and your 4x4” affair. We then headed off for a day-long trip through our mountains. I was volunteered to be the tail-end sweeper. Couples without 4x4s had to beg lifts. The couple that hopped in with me arrived in a long, dark, 350 E-Class Mercedes. Both hubby and the missus are engineers.
In the group were the usual mass of Fortuners, a Defender with a diesel turbo motor, a beautifully kept 3.0 Nissan Sani and three Cruiser pickups. I had to wait for the last car, because he had to stop in town to fill up with petrol first – no surprise when he showed up: 3.8V6 SWB Pajero – don’t drive past a petrol pump
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On a few occasions my passenger commented on the awesome Cruisers and their awesome 4x4 ability. I can’t and won’t argue against that. All I could add was if a Cruiser was in your garage, then you still needed to have a Merc as well. With a Pajero in the garage, you can do without the Merc. If I had the means there would be a monster 4x4 and a big German platkar and something small-fast-sexy for Sundays in my garage. My Pajero has to fill all those roles.
As the day wore on and we were low-ranging up the mountain, my passenger asked me why would anybody buy that (pointing at the Cruiser ahead of us) and not this (pointing at my Pajero)? I didn’t expect that one and asked him why.
“Look how they bounce in that Cruiser and here we sit each with a cold beverage in the hand”. Sound logic if ever I heard it.
I didn’t have to rescue anybody and the Defender didn’t break down and the D4D’s didn’t eat their injectors or turned belly-up, so a great day was had by all.
The next day I dusted the inside of my car – guess what? Not a single sticky stain from a spilt beverage.
Last edited by RoelfleRoux on Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:14 am, edited 1 time in total.
