OT wifey amazes me AGAIN

Oct 21, 2003 125 Replies

I did some checking out of the Argo's. They have a new one now that is a 6x6 but with the big engine so it'll go about 35mph. These are far from Cheap tho. Much more money than a Quad or a Rhino. If these ever flipped you'd be hurting. They really seem to need the tracks when clawing their way out of the water if it's at all steep. Every place I've seen these in pics has been in areas that are not all tha bad. Nothing really steep and fairly flat ground. They have about

8 inches of ground clearance. I don't know what you'd ever do if you high centered one of these esp the 8x8's. I sure wouldn't mind taking one out for a day and really putting it through some tough stuff. I guess it depends on the terrain that you have lightly wooded fairly flat land with a lot of bogs and ponds seen to be the Argo's forte. I haven't seen it go through any real heavy duty mud either but the Quads can I wonder how these would do. If you ever got it stuck, it would really be stuck, probably worse than a Quad which displaces less mud.

Thanks for that full review of the Argo, Jason. I really appreciate it. I might try out an Argo at some point but it's real strong point seems to be the fact that it can float. Freeboard was the term I was looking for and there is precious little of it. I watched a lot of videos of the Argos and it looks like it's real strong points are in swampy areas. Nathan sent me pics of the places he rides and there is just no way an Argo could traverse stuff like that. still the Argo does look like a fun toy to play with in the right enviroment.

Although you should see the way people drive trucks around here. You'd think they were driving Corvettes! When the snow hits all the SUV's end up in the ditches on teh side of the road or piled up into other cars. I don't know what Sport they were thinking of when they bought their Sport Utility Vehicle but it clearly wasn't a Sports Car. So far my fav is the one that says the airbags can kill you.

Most Corvettes handled like trucks until the mid 80s :-)

[ducks]

Dave Milne, Scotland '99 TJ 4.0 Sahara

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