Free to air 4x4 show coming?

[bally12]

I am currently watching the new 4x4 show and I have to say, it's not bad at all. It strikes me as a getaway type of show but for our beloved 4wd's

It's good to see this sort of thing coming onto our tv's.

[Crackles]

Is it just me or was that just one great big advert inter-despersed with some commericials !!! "My NISSAN PATROL is so great particually as it's fitted with an ARB bull bar & WARN winch. The FOXWING awning is so handy, particually as it attatch's to the OZTENT. The EZIDEFLATOR is so simple my kid can use it! How did we ever cook before we got the AUSPIT?".
Other than featuring a few great destinations I found it overall pretty tacky & with so much product placement the show has little credibility.
Like the 4x4 Aust mag, barely worth looking at.

[RockyOne]

I've always enjoyed the Pat Calligan (Mr Smooth) & Roothy (I'm not gonna say it) DVD's when they were together. Now they have gone their own ways, I still look forward to my Roothy DVD's (only reason I buy the mag) and now, at last we are seeing Pat with his great shows. Makes it worth having HD. I will be buying the full DVD set also. I tend to buy newspapers and mags about 30% for news and 70% for the adverts which are a kind of news anyway. I can live without the "Tiger" type so called news which is just commercial gossip.

[RockyOne]

Dollars count?

Interesting to note the KIA Sportage won the major USA desert off road comps two years in a row, against all those huge V-8's that had hundreds of thousands of US dollars thrown at them. The nimble little Sportage by KIA knocked their socks off. How embarrassing for them! But then, some would say that those who don't drive so well, hide behind huge horse power and noisy exhausts (with the fast glass down of course.)

sounds crap actually.

hope im very very wrong though been waiting for so long for a free to air 4x4 show to come on and they are driving a kia, doesnt sound very impressive.


are they doing comp coverage or?

[RockyOne]

Big ain't always beautiful. Go the KIA !

Yes Black_TJ, I can understand the TV guys going for the big rigs as no doubt there is a lot more money (translates to commercials/sponsorships) and for those who need it, prestige attatched to that camp. I wanted a Jeep in 1994 but as they were not imported then, I settled for an 'almost Jeep' ASIA (Korea) Rocsta. Even though I have two great Jeeps, I could'nt part with my 'next door to un-stoppable fun Rocsta. Rocsta used to be made under licence to Jeep anyway. Worth of note is the drop arm for a Jeep fits and so do Jeep FWH's. Diesel engine is a copy of a Mazda R2. A Jeep type Detriot locker fitted into the front & rear pumpkins. Have had it in fun comps at Brooklyn & Emu Ck NSW, LCMP etc. No offers thanks as not selling but I'll take you for a spin in the mud, when it rains RockyOne pix http://public.fotki.com/RockyOne/

Totally agree....