FordHawk

I am one of the people, and there was absolutely no way I was expecting the Territory to be extremely competant off road, even reading about it having AWD, stability control etc etc. The advertisement for it isn't misleading at all from my point of view, the only major thing it is shown doing on there is crossing a river (yes I am aware that it buggered up on the 6000km test on a river crossing) but I still personally dont see how people (media included) can assume that with all this info at hand that it would be able to do anything special off road. No great abilities are implied...in fact with the Territory being offered in AWD as well as RWD I would have thought most people would have realised that it isn't intended to be a bush traveller at all. Rather I would have thought most people would see that it can carry 7 people, and it sits up high like a 4WD.

The fact that the media liked to make up their own mind that all of the Territory, Kluger and Adventra should be able to handle tough stuff in the bush is totally beyond me. I don't see how, with all of the information available to them that they believed that people/themselves think that it should be good off road.

I'm sorry, but the criticism of the off road capabilites are annoying me, purely and simply because some people seem to be stupid enough to think that because it is an AWD that looks like a 4WD it should be able to conquer mountain trails. It is not what it was designed for, and I cant see how Ford have implied it.

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evan

I don't want to rain on your parade,but I was agreeing with you. I was referring to the minority of media reports that bag the ford's off road abilities but then tell us the honda crv is a fun city car which you can take camping or up the beach. I apologise if my wording/grammar/punctuation etcetera created the impression I was having a go at you. I will admit I didn't proof read it. The 'you' (or 'u' as I have spelled it) was a third person reference (media minority personification). I will admit an error of massive proportions regarding my use of pronouns. I wouldn't accept grammatical swill like that from my students, yet look at the example I set. No hard feelings, Chevypower?

chevypower

Sorry mate, i was copping a bit of flack for what i initially wrote, thought you were doing the same :-)


It would be nice to see the Territory gain more competitiveness off-road against the Kluger. I think a Jeep Wrangler style variation would do the trick - especially as they are both 4L inline 6s 130kw vs 182kw, and bring the 4.5L V6 Powerstroke diesel in to it, as I mentioned in the other thread!

Kerazy S-Pak

Ford really need to jack up the Territory and add some phat bash plates underneath to get this thing going offroad. How hard would it be to do this?

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bossxr8

The Territory is a crossover vehicle, not a 4WD. It was never meant to be or advertised as a bush basher like a Patrol or Cruiser.

Bassman

Bloody hell I am dissapointed, my Nissan Navara cant even pull a meteorite out of the way anywhere near as good as the ad shows!!
1 thing you can be sure of, if there is a market competitor, there will always be someone trying to topple the top of the heap.
How many people do you really think bought a Terry without a clue of what its capabilities were? Probably not as many as bought a Cruiser and complain about it being too big to get around the shopping carpark.