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Takes clearance to be best in mud, along with much larger, more aggressive tires.
Climbing needs power, as well as clearance and traction.
Short wheel-base is good for climbing over logs, but again, clearance helps, along with a front bumper close to the wheels.
"Off road" in Africa looks very much like some logging roads here, to me with deactivation trenches. Many pickups can navigate those, even my F350 with the short box.

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African driving is not just shitty potholed surfaced roads and corrugated gravel and dusty. Sandy bush tracks, rocky tracks.

It used to include river crossings.

I have an old Michelin map. Whole of continent, maybe Southern half only. It was at the time regarded as the best road map for driving. Believe it or not, even at that scale. The good old days ... Anyway one of the Southern Tanzania/Northern Mozambique border crossings of two North South roads listed a border river crossing as "canoe crossing"! The real good old days!

Back to African driving. In addition to the hunting track driving, off road driving is regularly part of it. Recovering animals. I remember a five or seven km bush track hacked by the blacks through the bush to get to an elephant.

I've never hunted in the high mountains nor the swamps, in Africa at least.

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John aka NitroX

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