Maybe not rock crawling or scenarios where suspension articulation is required, but I bet as long as you have have the right tire, a car like that should do fairly decent in less than ideal conditions because it’s light.
That’s part of what made the Original Honda CVCC (Civic), Morris Mini, and the original VW Beatle successful is being light weight, small and having the engine over the driven wheels (FF layout in the case of the CVCC and Mini, RR in the case of the VW).
Well, off-roading is mostly just deep holes, sharp rocks, etc unless you live in a place where there aren’t that many obstacles.
If you drive it where I live it will literally fall apart like its made out of LEGO.
Not sure if this island got made by an underwater volcano, but uh, it was underwater once, so that might explain a few things.
Of course, Subaru took this principle of small and light and built on it. While most of their vehicles have been small for their class, I’m going to particularly focus on the Justy here.
The Justy was about the size of the CVCC though it weighed a little more (1400lbs for the CVCC vs 1700lbs for the Justy), but the Justy had 4wd, and Subaru managed to get about 7in of clearance out of it despite the car only having 22in tires (for comparison, a stock Wrangler of the era had about 6in). As such, the Justy (the cheapest 4wd road legal vehicle ever sold in N.A.) could out perform Range Rovers in some situations.
That’s a part of it, though off roading is a pretty broad category. Driving though a sheep field is technically “off roading”. You’re probably thinking of like hardcore Moab type rock crawling, though honestly that’s one of the smaller “genres” of off road driving and isn’t seen very much outside of the US/Canada (and a bit in Australia).
And the funny thing is, some potholes on my island can instantly break your car, which uh, y’know, also isn’t very fun.
What’s the highest speed limit over there, 50kph?
I don’t know.
On most roads, you’ll be going 10/20 sadly, the other dumb idiots on the road drive so slow, and everybody is packed up…
On an empty road it might take 5 minutes to go somewhere, but if there are others, expect it to take 15/20…
How the hell do you break a car at 20kph? Even those Chinese Alibaba cars could withstand that.
Well, it isn’t always 20, especially outside of the populated areas.
And with most you won’t break it instantly, but you def will after some time.
Also, the rust…
the only car i’d buy
Volvo S60
Buy a Cessna CARavan.
best
No turbo brick Volvo 240??
too expensive + not available in india (need to import)
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Nice. Back looked a bit like a 350/70Z at first which threw me off, but the grill is 100% R35.
Cool nice maintenance 
The new engine that I put in my '03 Legacy turned out to be a dud, got rod knock after only 1800 miles. So, it’s with great regret that I’m parking it until probably summer when I’ll have the chance to pull the engine out and tear it down to rebuild it. And because my race car still doesn’t have an engine in it (the build is going well though, but it’s taking up a lot of the limited space in my dorm), so I can’t drive that, so I had to buy another car. Got a mint RWD 2000 Tacoma for fairly cheap so imma be driving that which will be an interesting experience given that we’re supposed to have one of the snowiest winters of the past few years.
So, updates of my car life:
My race car is back up and running, already been used in a competition. The new engine is great. It makes wayyyyy more power than the old 300,000mi unit did. We’ve got a couple more things that we’ll do to it over the spring and summer, mainly adding some random bracing bits, deleting the muffler, and installing harnesses. We may or may not have to replace the transmission as the current (original) one is quite worn.
I’ve decided on a temporary fix for my '03 Subaru that may or may not just be permanent. I’ll have that going this Friday. It’s in kind of rough shape, but assuming I keep both it and my truck, this will probably become primarily my off road/ camping rig.
The truck is running great, no complaints there. I’m putting new brakes and shocks on in the next week or so.
My main race season starts next month. I’ve already done a couple races though for the season. It was a VW group sponsored track and I technically set a better lap time than a Porsche LeMans car (two separate events on different weekends, but same track layout).
I got sponsored for this year’s RX season. Applied to and was accepted by Tirestreets.com. So, hopefully I can get one or two podiums in this year to get some free race rubber. We had to move up in category because of the new engine, but even with the old, low powered one, I was placing in the top 1/3 of the class I’ll be in this year.