GAME CHANGERS: TODAY'S 4X4S HAVE COME A VERY LONG WAY FROM THE 40 SERIES LANDCRUISERS AND EARLY LAND ROVERS THAT IGNITED AUSTRALIA'S LOVE OF 4X4S SOME 60 YEARS AGO. HERE ARE TEN SIGNIFICANT ADVANCEMENTS ALONG THE WAY...

DIESEL motors; AUTOMOBILE lighting; ANTILOCK brake systems in automobiles; MOTOR vehicle driving; DITCHES; TRAFFIC accidents

So-called anti-roll or sway bars help limit this on-road body lean but they also reduce axle articulation, which is not what you want off-road. Smart diffs are used in both rear cross-axle and centre inter-axle applications and can typically proportion the drive from a locked 50:50 to all or near all of the drive going to either axle in a centre inter-axle application or to either wheel in a cross-axle application. That generation Range Rover also came with a modern quad-cam 48-valve 4.4-litre petrol V8 (also a BMW engine) and in give-and-take driving, the punchy "little" diesel gave nothing away to the near 50 per cent bigger petrol V8. Here's a 4x4 tyre shopping tip: If you don't want a Light Truck tyre on your 4x4 -- if it was designed around a passenger-construction tyre (and there are some negatives in fitting an LT tyre) -- but still want a reasonably robust all-terrain tyre, then all is not lost. [Extracted from the article]

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