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How about a 4x4?
- Elena Yurina
- Feb 22, 2023
- 1 min read
Until recently, 4x4 traction was almost the exclusive prerogative of pure camper rigs or "reconnaissance" vehicles. Today there are some "price list" offers for more or less extreme "off-road" vehicles.
Mechanical foundations are usually Ducato or Citroen or Ford Transit Trail, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter or Iveco Daily in the version developed by Dangel . These are normally pure campers (the most popular size is 6 metres) or special vehicles.
I divide these vehicles into three categories: vehicles that use all-wheel drive to "get off the road" in critical situations or to overcome not-so-difficult dirt roads (usually they have all-wheel drive engaged), permanent off-road vehicles, more emphatic (usually permanent all-wheel drive and enhanced with ground clearance), extreme ones, real "reconnaissance" vehicles.
Of course, it's always nice to think of your camper as "unstoppable", perhaps someone who can survive for a long time in a hostile environment. But the question is: do you need it?
I opened this paragraph with a photo of my then camper (Laika in Fiat Ducato) on a dirt road (straight and tens of kilometers long) in Iceland, everything was fine. True, in Iceland it is nice to go "in", to the heart, to do some crossings: I rented a car to go to Landmannalaugar and made other trips in large cross-country cars (see the article about Iceland ) ) . Iceland has been one of my trips, of course if almost everyone was like that, maybe a 4x4 would be fine.
