Four Wheel Drives 2000

A look back at Four Wheel Drives over 2000.

Dutton Marine produced a four wheel drive version of the Commander amphibious car. It uses Suzuki Samurai 4WD components.

The price of fuel went up and up (crude, US$35+) so it was good timing that the back room developments in fuel cells, hybrid power systems, etc. got one or two steps nearer to production. e.g. Daimler Chrysler have prototype Dodge Durango 4x4s running around with plans for sales ~2003.

The Sbarro 6x6 conversion of the Citroen Berlingo van/ people mover is just weird.

	`Convergence' continues with family cars and station wagons (this is the Volvo Cross Country) and light duty four wheel drives growing more and more alike.
- 4wd.sofcom.com/4WD.html

Santa Fe 4x4 has a 2.7L V6 and should give the Ford Escape, Honda CR-V, Land Rover Freelander, Subaru Forester, and Toyota RAV4 a hard time.

Mitsubishi's new Pajero upped the level of (road) sophistication in the family 4WD wagon. It won the best 4WD category in Australia's Best Cars Awards (Nov' '00).

But forget convergence. The Tatra T813 may come close, but this Maz 8x8 must be the largest submission to 4WDonline in 2000...

... and the Suzuki Carry 4x4 may be the smallest (Quad's excepted).

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