daniel_rowland

I've owned and or driven most the pickups over the last few years, my most recent below; 2007 Navara Aventura Double cab - great ride, really comfy, not great off road with standard tyres, STUPID electronic 4x4 selector which seems to fail monthly rendering the 4x4 system unavailable!!! Mines a manual and with a rear canopy and quite a load i still get 29.8mpg on 1500 mile trips involving motorway - a roads - b roads and 4x4 access. This is so far my favourite all rounder!! ( a mate does have an auto which he claims never to have seen more the 22mpg) 2007 Mitsi L200 Singlecab 4work - a bottom of the range workhorse owned from new, did 70k in just over a year, found we were replacing brakes a lot!!! This really wasn't good on fuel (lacking the 6th gear the navara has) and a strange seating position. Pretty good offroad as standard but strange and unpredictable road handling. 2006 Ford ranger thunder double cab - This was a great vehicle, again used as a workhorse, covered intergalactic mileages in it and suffered very few problems, very comfy and easily clean leather, fuel economy better than L200 not quite as good as navara, 4x4 capabilities fairly good as standard, vehicle really served us vary well. 2006 Isuzu rodeo denver max LE (AUTO) a fantastic vehicle, really good offroad out of the box, comfy and even ok on fuel considering the auto box!! I didn't use this vehicle a whole lot but found no problems when i did, don't recall it ever having had any problems. Not a very technical round up, but we've had allsorts of trucks and use them pretty hardly, 50k+ annually on each one, all carrying tools and equipment, a lot of motorway driving. But also a considerable amount of 4x4 use. All suffer with road tyres as standard, but we have to maintain a certain amount of road performance, have yet to try a newish hilux, maybe next year!! Cheers Dan