Lead Story in SMH "Drive"....

I imagine the Gross Vehicle Mass may be exceeded! But I wonder how many of us do that anyhow?

So much of the media today gives superficial attention to what are interesting topics - its all to do with cost - the journos don't get given the time to research the story properly..... so they churn out lots of hastily prepared junk..... as you say the headline was good..... but that only took a minute :-)........ as for Top Gear Oz mentioned above ........I'm interested in cars (not as much as many I'm sure) but I can't watch that Pizzati bloke acting like a pork chop..... and the other blokes don't seem to be making a program of it either......(but its probably the production execs fault anyway)....... episode one plus 2 minutes of episode two and I'm out !!

Old Baz ,

I read the article and thought it was a lightweight piece of crud .



I particularly liked Denis the "expert" owner who poo pooed the off-road vans -
" You can buy other kinds of off-road caravans but they aren't truly luxurious and their so heavy you need a truck to pull them "

He was clever enough to design his own perfect machine . So perfect was his design , his advice was not to forget to tape up the windows to keep the dust out .

I don't need to tape up any windows in my Bushtracker and you can option up or down any van to make it as luxurious or as Spartan as you want .

What a galah . And what a gullible tosser that Leigh Bottrell must be , to have believed the galah and written such rubbish .

Cheers ,

Willie .

PS
I cannot wait for the next installment . Our daredevils Dennis and Di are going to tackle that horrendous off-road section from Broome down to Norseman . I think there is actually one section of dirt between Marble Bar and Nullagine so I can see the tape coming out for this horror stretch .

I could not help myself . I sent a note to SMH Drive about the article -

"Leigh Bottrell's story "Luxury and Bulldust" was true to the heading . Bulldust was the right word for it ."criss crossed the outback" was not substantiated in the article. Comments on "other types off road caravans" were ignorant . Dennis, Leigh's "expert " designed his own - which needs to have the windows taped up, to keep the dust out. WOW , where can I get one !

Leigh Bottrell should be embarrassed to write such lightweight rubbish.

Cheers,

XXXXXXX XXXXXX

Hmmm

Article is not on the online drive.com.au yet. Us out of Sydney towners have to wait until they put it online before we get to see stuff.

Muddy

Thought it a lot of hogwash.Most people don't have that sort of money to start off with and there would be plenty of people out there that have done much more than they have and be able to offer much better advise on what you need etc.The only off road they mentioned was Gibb river road and plenty do that.I'm like you I
have no criticism of the owners but wonder what the journalist was trying to prove.