>>2209973Again with this thread...
You need:
>light car (<1ton is best)>good angles, which means big tires and a short frame>manual, so you can use the clutch to control tire spin. classic automatics are worthless, and computer-controlled automatics still can't handle ice or stop fishtailing.>solid axles, so you won't lose groundclearance under load or during jumps>either 2+2 or a central differential locker. Axle lockers if you're driving in soft mud or snow.>weak engine. An overly strong engine will make you spin tires and dig in all the time. <100hp/tonThe cars that fit this best are the small suzukis. LJ, SJ, FJ. 40s-50s jeeps are also allright, as are the french, korean and indian copies and lada niva. All other "offroad" cars I'm aware of are designed for trails or open fields at best.
My own car is a Suzuki Samurai, from the final year of spanish production. That year, they'd ran out of the 69hp G13BAengine they were supposed to put in, were supposed to use the 82hp G13BB DOHC engine used in the FJ, and ended up using leftover aeroplane 80hp G13BB SOHC engines by accident. The result is an extremely light car (1035kg - mine's a bit lighter since I removed rear seats, carpet and other rust traps) with perfectly controllable power. Since it's so light, once you hit 20kmh, it'll just fly over potholes, and I haven't gotten stuck even once in the 9 years I've been driving it. Hardly even need the 4wd - just go easy on the gas, and it'll go forward without a problem.
Also 7.5L/100km.
>HARD MODE: No jeeps.More like easy mode. Jeep hasn't been building good cars since the 50s. Even if you mod them to the limit, they'll still be mogged by a stock Samurai.
