"prerunners are toys for women" apparently

hmm

ive always heard "real prerunners are 4wd"






you know...just

 

chris and i had a discussion similar to this the other night...

when youre speeding along in the desert...a lot of times you dont get that "oh shit" moment before you fuck up...

when youre crawling around on the rocks...and get a teeter totter effect going and changing your steering by an inch can send you tumbling end over end off a side of a mountain...

THAT is a seat puckering experience

 

but there again..it pops up out of nowhere...i dont think you get the same butt puckering taste seat upholstery from the wrong way oh shit factor

there its more of an "oh shit oh shit oh shit...done"




regardless...i think both styles of offroad are cool in their own aspects...and if i lived out there where all i had was sand...then id LT a truck etc etc...

instead im building a truck that can go anywhere and still work properly after it ends up upside down

 

I get more excitement from the higher speed desert running in my Tacoma. in my 4x4's, I get a "Hey....Watch this" kind of excitement. in the 30 years I have been off roading, I have been in SO many different off rad experiences, and its really hard to say which gives the biggest "thrill". On the rocks, rou can have an "Oh shit" moment last for 30 seconds. In the high speed stuff, it can last half a second. Either one will cause you to need a break, and pull the underware out of your butt. I can respect all wheeling, and the different vehicles eaqually. This being my first 4x2, I can attest, I REALLY enjoy throwing the tail out at 50+ mph on a desert trail. Im not saying that you cant do the same thing in a TAcoma 4x4, but knowing you dont have a front drive to pull you out of a tough situation kinda adds to the thrill....

 

or when youre going DOWN a steep drop off SLOWLY and the truck goes up on its nose and teeters there for a few seconds and all you can see is ground out of the front window....and then it just slowly goes on over despite having the presence of mind to hit the gas...and a small tree and a handful of mud keeps you from going end over end all the way down the hill...




I think 2wd trucks have a purpose...and not as just a girls truck either

for example...chris has several other 4wd and 6wd vehicles that he can use to go offroad...he doesnt need 4wd...it doesnt get icy where he lives...so why pay for it if you dont need it?

BUT for those of us who dont have spare trail/offroad only vehicles...4wd can be a handy thing...even if youre out there running around in the sand jumping dunes and shit

I'm glad i bought the 4wd personally...even though I couldve bought a prerunner...i never wouldve gotten into wheeling if i didnt have 4wd (which couldve been a good thing) but there have been times out at our land that i've NEEDED 4wd for vehicle recovery and maint of the property...a 2wd wouldve probably NOT been able to recover my dad's z71...or our '53 Ford Tractor...or my uncles F250...

A lot depends on the driver too...an experienced wheeler with a 2wd can PROBABLY do better than an inexperienced driver with 4wd...

I'd bet there are some prerunners here that could come to the east coast and outwheel some of the folks with 4wd over here

 

Actually, A few people have done just that.