Who's is the biggest?
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2020 3:07 pm
Vehicles keep getting bigger.
The bigger the better? or is it?
On a trail - big means beached or bashed.
Overlanding, big is nice, but fitting under trees or driving in existing tracks can be difficult.
Personally, I feel our vehicles. particularly Double Cab Bakkies (the most popular model) are starting to get too big.
The current Isuzu KB-6/D-Max in SA is 5295mm long & 1860mm long.
My daily drive is the old KB5 & it is significantly smaller that the KB-6/D-max.
To me, the current D-Max is a tad too big & I'd not want to go any bigger.
Kurt & I drew up a system a few years back called the 'Gerber' system, it took Length (Excluding Tow Bar) x Width (excluding mirrors) to give a 'Shadow area' in m2...
To give you an idea, the World Famous Fearless has a Shadow area of 8.66m2.
A Land Cruiser 200, by comparison, has a shadow area of 9.75m2
So, clearly anything over 9m2 is BIG... but what if vehicles start breaking 10m2?
The bigger the better? or is it?
On a trail - big means beached or bashed.
Overlanding, big is nice, but fitting under trees or driving in existing tracks can be difficult.
Personally, I feel our vehicles. particularly Double Cab Bakkies (the most popular model) are starting to get too big.
The current Isuzu KB-6/D-Max in SA is 5295mm long & 1860mm long.
My daily drive is the old KB5 & it is significantly smaller that the KB-6/D-max.
To me, the current D-Max is a tad too big & I'd not want to go any bigger.
Kurt & I drew up a system a few years back called the 'Gerber' system, it took Length (Excluding Tow Bar) x Width (excluding mirrors) to give a 'Shadow area' in m2...
To give you an idea, the World Famous Fearless has a Shadow area of 8.66m2.
A Land Cruiser 200, by comparison, has a shadow area of 9.75m2
So, clearly anything over 9m2 is BIG... but what if vehicles start breaking 10m2?
