On the other side, I gladly take my Outlander off the beaten track. I took it through a river crossing last month that I probably shouldn’t have. It handled it like a champion, though.
I don’t know whether I’d take one of these through that same crossing.
… You wouldn’t take a Shark through a crossing that an Outlander can handle? :-\
Outlander has 190mm of ground clearance and a wading depth of 400mm, the Shark has 230mm of ground clearance and a wading depth of 600mm (or 700mm, depending on which website you believe).
It’s not a dig at the Shark, specifically. It’s my lack of familiarity with electric vehicles in general. I’ve never seen an electric vehicle drive through water.
The depth of the water was about the height of the wheels. Which I’m guessing is past 400mm. I probably wouldn’t have taken the car along that road to that crossing if I’d known about it ahead of getting there. I was already calculating the odds of getting across and what I’d do if I got bogged down in the water etc.
Oh please. The most off road the majority of dual cabs get is mounting kerbs in a drive through.
Some imported dual-cab utes struggle with the kerbs of drive throughs.
Whether they actually get used for it or not is immaterial. People like to believe they will go out bush with them.
On the other side, I gladly take my Outlander off the beaten track. I took it through a river crossing last month that I probably shouldn’t have. It handled it like a champion, though.
I don’t know whether I’d take one of these through that same crossing.
… You wouldn’t take a Shark through a crossing that an Outlander can handle? :-\
Outlander has 190mm of ground clearance and a wading depth of 400mm, the Shark has 230mm of ground clearance and a wading depth of 600mm (or 700mm, depending on which website you believe).
It’s not a dig at the Shark, specifically. It’s my lack of familiarity with electric vehicles in general. I’ve never seen an electric vehicle drive through water.
The depth of the water was about the height of the wheels. Which I’m guessing is past 400mm. I probably wouldn’t have taken the car along that road to that crossing if I’d known about it ahead of getting there. I was already calculating the odds of getting across and what I’d do if I got bogged down in the water etc.