Your current winter impressions

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Re: Your current winter impressions

Post by Bypah » Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:57 pm

By the way guys....here is unseasonable warm.....Today it went all the way up to 76 degrees!!!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
Breaking the record high for this time of the year of 72 back in 1939. Incredible!!!!! :roll: :roll: :roll:
and they still don't want to beleive in global warming and climate change..... :roll:
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Re: Your current winter impressions

Post by Bypah » Mon Dec 20, 2010 8:02 pm

ak70g2 wrote:Actually I like that old Toyota Hilux. It's like Swiss Army knife for me. You didn't saw Preda's Aro 10 yet, loaded with 9 people and hunking on those forest roads... :D
I like the Toyota Tundra Crewmax.....awesome!!!!
but in the meantime I enjoy my trusty 03' Chevy Silverado 1500 extended cab.... :mrgreen:
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Re: Your current winter impressions

Post by housil » Tue Dec 21, 2010 6:11 am

ak70g2 wrote:Olli, I like your Iltis very much, but for that X3 I'll take anytime an Mercedes G instead (same good german engineering) :mrgreen:
I wouldn´t prefer a Wolf (Mercedes G) neither my Iltis nor my X3.

The Mercedes G is a 2.7t - 3.5t heavy vehikle with 90 to 102 hp.

My Iltis has 1.5t with 75hp

The Iltis is the stronger and faster one and won the famous ralley Paris - Dakar in 1980 :mrgreen: The G never :wink: .

Do you realy want me to compare a 1978 designed miliatry purpose vehikle with a civilian 2005 designed BMW?!

The X3 is a 1.8t 150hp (2 liters gas engine, no diesel) car.
Cruise control, air conditioned, GPS, soundsystem, X-Drive with hill decent control etc...

I wish I could have a X3 in G-painting :mrgreen:

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Re: Your current winter impressions

Post by ak70g2 » Tue Dec 21, 2010 7:05 am

I had a very unpleasant experience with an BMW X5 a month ago, when I was invited on a holiday house of one friend, located in an mountainerous zone of Romania. We have to travel on a steep forest road, to get there, and I was in the X5. With us was Andrei's (the host) Mitsubishi Pajero and another Mercedes ML. Keeping short, the Mitsubishi was the only car which get on the hut,BMW and Mercedes cars didn't match the capabilities of an "proper" 4x4, so Mitsubishi hauled us and the stuff we got in a few trips.

So, Olli, please don't be angry on me, I know BMW makes fine cars, but I always match my car with my needs :D
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Re: Your current winter impressions

Post by housil » Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:21 am

ak70g2 wrote:
So, Olli, please don't be angry on me, I know BMW makes fine cars, but I always match my car with my needs :D
Be sure, I´m not Image

If I had to drive real "hard core" offroad, I wouldn´t want to have a BMW too.
The X1/3/5 are not made for. They are fine limousines with some "rough terrain" capabilities, but not real(!) offroad.

Yesterday, at 5 inches snowfall I felt like the king of the road. No hill up nor down could stop us. This was so great and a real fun :mrgreen:
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Re: Your current winter impressions

Post by ak70g2 » Tue Dec 21, 2010 11:50 am

Somebody saw Norge? I hope he's not layin' somewhere, frozen... :mrgreen:
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Re: Your current winter impressions

Post by norge » Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:14 pm

not frozen yet :mrgreen: its just 20-celsius and no wind,nice weather for being outside
skiing :D

cheers ken :D

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Re: Your current winter impressions

Post by ak70g2 » Tue Dec 21, 2010 2:19 pm

"Just -20 celsius" is a "nice weather"? This is "Welcome in the freezer" here... :|
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Re: Your current winter impressions

Post by Treesuit » Wed Dec 22, 2010 12:35 am

Yeah, Norge is holed up at his compound with a year's supply of dark brown MRE's....he's not going anywhere. :lol:

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Re: Your current winter impressions

Post by Wookard » Wed Dec 22, 2010 2:31 am

Today I went to the local coffee shop at about Midnight with T-shirt and Jeans on. It is about -7C, so it is more like spring weather to me ;) I haven't had to buy a Winter Coat in about 5 years. Usually a light spring jacket or a hoody and I am good to go. Most of my friends have massive winter coats. So funny.

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