Ideas to the floor please.

Thsssp.

I started off reccommending a perfectly reasonable hairdresser's car with girly 4x4 to met your 30mpg requirement. If you now want a 4x4 shed then the Exploder fits that bill.

Nobody's mentioned a hi-lux yet

I assumed he kind of wanted a car, not a pickup.

Suppose a double cab would be a handy thing to have, though.

It's miles away from him right now, but about 20 miles away from me.

Quite like that myself actually.

My BiL has a diesel LWB pajero on a H plate, doesn't do much more than 150m a week normally but 3 or 4 times a year takes it to his place in France which is a 600m run from Calais, costs him f*ck all in maintenance and never misses a beat, undeniably pikey (him and the paj :-)) but do you really give a f*ck if it gets the job done?

james

With Pajeros one thing always makes me giggle... 'all that glitters ain't gold'....

My brother had one (he does building work). He took it back because the manual gearshift was so awful. It was his daily driver too. The gearbox is from one of their bigger trucks. He flogged it and got a diesel shogun which he loves.

They can get a little bit broken headed. The gaskets don't go, the heads themselves crack. They aren't as bad as Delicas, but it is the same engine in a different position.

My final word on the subject

Audi 100 or A6 - the older one. Or an 80 Or an A4

As long as it's old enough to have a proper mechanical locking rear diff and a switch on the centre console which shows this.

Or.......

Which is waaaaayyy cooler in some ways.

nissan terrano? or an old patrol? and silly suggestion pulsar?

Top gear did those a while ago, i think. Got round a quarry based course that nothing else could touch.

Don't get me wrong, all contributions are greatfully recieved.

I was thinking Hummer, but I can't find a H1, just H2s, and they've invariably got 24" wheels so I reckon they'd really struggle in the snow... So now, I'm thinking this...

or maybe

or

and finally, I raise you my personal favorite...

That's the one that, only just over budget, times are hard for people so, discount for cash has never been easier ;-)

..and apparently Fifth Gear did the newer model recently.

Here's the old one being driven by some nutter..

I reckon, one of these:

*If* he can find one.

Nothing on ebay at the moment, as far as I can see.

I've changed my mind again.

Get a Cherokee.

Cheap as chips.

Actually I nearly said that too. When I searched on ebay for those awesome but probably unsuitable Jeeps I posted, I searched 'jeep' in cars and got loads, so I went price low to high, and had pages of Cherokees finishing under 4 figures for ages before I changed search tactic.

If you're going for unfindable, BX 4x4 gti, with the 4wd still working.

No no no, Pug 405 Mi16x4 or even better, Pug 405 1.8 GL (I think, maybe GR actually... 4x4, in estate form for real rareness (pretty sure they made an estate...). Or, and I realise these two weren't sold here, but what the hell, I've always wanted to see them, Pug 405 T-16 (actually I've seen a 405 T-16 at the French Car Show, it was so awesome), I once read a road test of these and they reckoned it dropped a 911 Turbo down a bendy road! Or, of course, a 205 T-16. And this I've never seen, but apparently in France they sold, in small numbers, a Citroen AX GTi 4x4... Imagine that with a tuned VTS engine in whilst pretending the 4x4 wouldn't die :-) It'd weigh like

750kg, have far more than enough grip and power to weight (dependant on engine tuning) of like, well, high :-p