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Mud Map Is The Navigation App For 4WDers

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3:30PM December 16, 2011 | Nick Broughall

If you’re planning on taking an off road holiday over the summer break, you might want to consider getting a navigation app to help you find and share your adventures. You know, just in case you get bogged and need winching out. Mud Map looks like a prtty good option. More »


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New Toyota Prado Does The Four Wheel Driving For You

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2:54PM November 26, 2009 | Nick Broughall

I’ve been driving for almost 14 years. I’ve spent plenty of time in traffic, driven on types of different road surfaces and avoided plenty of accidents. But up until Monday, I’d never been behind the wheel of a 4WD while actually four wheel driving. Fortunately, the new Toyota Prado I was test driving did most of the hard work for me. More »


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Trailcart: World’s First Pedal-Powered 4WD Off-Road Vehicle

12:20AM June 3, 2008 | Wilson Rothman

It seems like something that would have been invented before, and by red-blooded Americans for whom off-roading is a way of life, but the Trailcart, according to TreeHugger, is the world’s “first pedal-powered four-wheel-drive off-road vehicle,” and it was invented by a clever German fellow named Frank Fraune.

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