Rainforest Challenge 2015
Since I started offroading, about a decade ago, two events have been on everyone's lips. In rally raid class, the unforgiving Dakar, that…
Transylvania Adventure Trophy 2009
Transylvania Adventure Trophy 2009 As I’m writing this, most of the people we’ve met in the past week have already gotten to their home…
Transylvania Adventure Trophy
Transylvania Adventure Trophy - Like every year, off road lovers from all over Europe gathered in the Romanian city of Deva, in the western…
Transylvania Adventure Club Christmas
Transylvania Adventure Club Christmas - Like every year, the organization team of the Transylvania Adventure Trophy sets out to bring joy…
Toyota Iasi Adventure Raid 2008
Toyota Iasi Adventure Raid 2008 The stage before last from the Romanian Off Road Championship took place last month, close to the town of…
This Fabulous Trek
This Fabulous Trek - Some few days ago, I found myself doing what I do best – surfing the images for new truck pictures, articles and…
The Green Giants
The Green Giants - It is a generally acknowledged fact that fossil fuels and all it’s derivates are a limited resource. It is estimated…
The Cluj Cup
The Cluj Cup - Between 7 and 10 of August 2008, Transylvania Off Road Club organised the sixth stage of the National Championship in the…
The Air We Breathe
The Air We Breathe - At the end of April, one of the most important off road clubs in Romania organized an unlikely weekend with an…
Suzuki Festival
Suzuki Festival When you say Suzuki, you think Grand Vitara, going out on the weekend to the family home which is on a road that's slightly…
Suzuki Fest - 2010
Suzuki Fest - 2010 - Every off road brand has it's own group of admirers. Friendships have been made and broken by owning a model from the…
Suzuki Fest 2009
Suzuki Fest 2009 As we've already been accustomed, the end of the summer brought a new and improved edition of the Suzuki Festival in the…
Sportsmobile
Sportsmobile - Extreme 4x4 Van that is a brand apart! In 1961, Charles Borsky put down the base for the legendary company in Texas. Almost…
Southern Caucasus Adventure: Armenia - Part II
Southern Caucasus Adventure: Armenia - Part II We didn’t know what to expect when we reached the Armenian border. Crossing into Georgia had…
Romanian Tuning Show
Romanian Tuning Show I rarely go to car shows. Although I love seeing them, going to these events is something different. However, I had an…
Romanian Off Road School
Romanian Off Road School The off road fever has kept a lot of people merely dreaming about owning a car that they can feel safe and happy…
Romanian Extreme Adventure 2009
Romanian Extreme Adventure 2009 A country with mountains is a country with off road cars. And where there’s off road cars, sooner or later…
Romanian Extreme Adventure 2008
Romanian Extreme Adventure 2008 - The latest stage of the National Off Road Championship of Romania took place at the beginning of this…
Responsible Driving
Responsible Driving - Off road magazines tend to publish a large number of articles depicting the pleasure and adventure contained in…
Pushing the Limits - Andy Campbell
Pushing the Limits - Andy Campbell - When I first read about Andy’s trip, I was randomly searching the web for parts for my truck. It…
Project Mobility
Converting Land Rovers For Injured Soldiers - We help troops get mobile again, and also it's open to all amputees to get involved. We adapt…
The Pharaons Rally
The Pharaons Rally - More than 140 teams from all around the globe lined up to the starting line for the 2010 edition of one of the most…
Pharaon's Rally 2012
Pharaon's Rally 2012 - Last month the Pharaon's Rally took place. We've reported on the competition in the previous years as well, but this…
Over The Transylvanian Hills
Over The Transylvanian Hills - Now in it’s ninth edition, the Cluj Cup, organized by the Transsylvania Off Road Club, has become a sort of…
An Overlander's Dream
An Overlander's Dream - Without doubt, everybody who has an off road car, or at least had the occasion to participate in an off road…
Organizing an Off Road Competition
Organizing an Off Road Competition Off road racing is great to watch, great to take part in but hellish to organize. Competitions - some…
Visiting the Land Rover Billing Show
Visiting the Land Rover Billing Show - For those who own a Land Rover or like the legendary vehicles knows that the Billing Show is the…
Are offroad parks the future?
Are offroad parks the future? - More and more countries on the Old Continent are starting to raise eyebrows when it comes to roaming around…
Offroad Navigation Tools - How newer GPS systems stack up against my old Garmin? -
Offroad Navigation Tools - How newer GPS systems stack up against my old Garmin? - When I first started off roading, having a good GPS was…
Southern Caucasus Adventure - Georgia - Part I
Off Roading Expedition: Caucasus Georgia - I asked a gentleman, a while back, why does he travel. Why is it that the lifestyle suits him…
Offroad Communications - Satellite Phones
Offroad Communications - Satellite Phones - Deep jungle. Rain. Broken differential. Truck stuck in the mud. No phone signal and nothing on…
Offroad Communications - CB Radio
Offroad Communications - CB Radio - A lot of the times, while preparing a car for challenges or expedition, we tend to focus on the cars…
Off Road Adventure Romania
Off Road Adventure Romania Through our time offroading in various places, it is still rather rare that we manage to reach places of real…
Easter Off Road Adventure
Easter Off Road Adventure - Easter Month brings nothing but surprises for everyone. This year, Off Road Adventure Romania chose to go in a…
Off Road Adventure Romania - Christmas
Off Road Adventure Romania - Christmas Perhaps one of the most unique attributes of the off road spirit is that of helping each other, on…
Off Road Adventure Medieval Transylvania
Off Road Adventure Medieval Transylvania - The idea of owning a 4x4 has always been to reach the unreachable and get to where no car has…
Musaios Extreme Adventure @ Buzau
Musaions Extreme Adventure @ Buzau - This weekend the town of Buzau, a small mountain settlement in Romania was home to the one of the last…
Mongol Rally Ambulance - Paramongols - Undercover medics for Mongolia
Mongol Rally Ambulance - Paramongols - Undercover medics for Mongolia- I have a few dreams. Ok, maybe that's an understatement. I have…
Maramures Off Road Fest
Maramures Off Road Fest - The outskirts of the Ignis mountains in Romania were home to yet another extraordinary festival. Five editions…
Lost In The Process
Lost In The Process As you are probably all aware, getting a truck up the hills and in the mud comes with a cost. Whether you treat your…
Land Rover Owner Show - Peterborough
Land Rover Owner Show Peterborough - There is an entire culture for celebrating things. Some people write them in big red letters, some…
Land Rover Discovery 4
Land Rover Discovery 4 The sound of the doors opening. The shiny "Start/Stop Engine" button. The distinct smell of new leather. The large…
Land Rover Billing Show 2008
Land Rover Billing Show 2008 Summer is fast approaching and, for Land Rover enthusiasts all over Europe this can only mean one thing. It’s…
Kazakhstan Offroad
Kazakhstan Offroad - You’re at work. Closed in your office, just after finishing off something you had to do and allow yourself to drift…
Kazakhstan Adventure Interview
Kazakhstan Adventure Interview - We were standing in the field, whipped by the freezing early morning wind, admiring a random display of…
Icon 4x4 - Improving Perfection
Icon 4x4 - Improving Perfection “The market needs brands with clarity of intent, and brands that aren’t afraid to not be for everyone; it’s…
Harghita Off Road Trophy 2008
Harghita Off Road Trophy 2008 The last competition of the year took place in the Harghita mountains, and was organized by the team from…
Glacier in Greenhouse
Glacier in Greenhouse - Extreme off-road expedition in a Land Rover. Glacier in a Greenhouse is a student-led expedition from Durham…
G4 Challenge Winner: Ruby Thoelen
G4 Challenge Winner: Ruby Thoelen I have always felt an attraction towards the G4 Challenge because of it's endurance tests and it's fame…
Electronic Myths Off Road
Electronic Myths Off Road - For years, I had very little interaction with the electronic aspects in cars on off road tracks. The Land Rover…
Discovery Off Road Trial
Discovery Off Road Trial - By now everyone knows the hit show “One car too far” on the documentary channel. Those two guys take everything…
Rally Raid International: Paul Round
Rally Raid International: Paul Round It's always the people with initiative who make it in any business. I had the chance to chat with one…
Christmas Humanitarian Trial Run
Christmas Humanitarian Trial Run - I found that December brings the most interesting things of all the months. This year it brought…
Humanitarian Action - Off Road Adventure Romania Christmas 2012
Humanitarian Action - Off Road Adventure Romania Christmas 2012 Off Road Adventure Romania has been delivering packages with food and…
Christmas Humanitarian Action - Club 4x4 Romania
Christmas Humanitarian Action - Club 4x4 Romania - The end of the year is always an opportunity for new and exciting off road tracks in the…
Christmas Humanitarian Action 2011
Christmas Humanitarian Action 2011 - Off Road Adventure Romania has been delivering packages with food and clothes in isolated villages for…
Castrol Extreme Adventure
Castrol Extreme Adventure - Summer represents a lot of things for a lot of people. But for Eastern European motorsport lovers, summer…
Canon Off Road Experience
Canon Off Road Experience - It’s late autumn in Romania. Each and every evening brings a veil of fog across the fields. Harvest is well on…
Off Road Contest: Campulung Muscel
Off Road Contest: Campulung Muscel - The Campulung Muscel Off Road Contest that took place between 29th of November and 2nd of December…
King of the EVs - Bremach T-Rex
King of the EVs - Bremach T-Rex Born in the late 1950s in Varese, Italy, the Bremach brand initially operated as a mechanical workshop. In…
Bowler
Bowler - I met Victor in front of his office. He was parking his silver Land Rover Discovery 3 in the underground parking of the building…
Bowler
Bowler - I met Victor in front of his office. He was parking his silver Land Rover Discovery 3 in the underground parking of the building…
Bolivian Death Road - How to handle Kari-Kari the evel spirit!
Bolivian Death Road - How to handle Kari-Kari the evil spirit! - South America has been an off roader’s paradise ever since the first 4x4s…
Bison in the Carpathians tour - Retro off road show-off
Bison in the Carpathians tour - Retro off road show-off - It's not often that retro off road cars get to show off. Owning and keeping one…
The Biggest Street Legal 4x4 [Iron Revenge]
Iron Revenge Some things just look good big. Trucks are some of them. They stand for something. And Glen Harris' team took it upon…
Australasian Safari - The Dakar Down Under
Australasian Safari - The Dakar Down Under - We’ve all gotten pretty comfortable with the idea that we live on a big planet, with lots of…
Arctic Trucks
Arctic Trucks - Each part of the globe requires somewhat particular specifications to the off road cars that trek it’s plains. Desert…
African IT Lessons - Offroad Expeditions
African IT Lessons - Offroad Expeditions - Meet Luis Lopes, a 48-year old IT specialist. Apart from his three decade experience in all…
4x4 Response Network
4x4 Response Network The 4x4 Response Network took to life in 1999, when Norfolk off roaders decided to aid the community in any way…
4x4 Off Road Event Schedule 2009
4x4 Off Road Event Schedule 2009 - In the hearts of off road lovers, summer has always had a special place. It's the time when we lay back…
4x4 Interview: Simon Buck
4x4 Interview: Simon Buck - "I started driving off road at an early age, as I spent most of my youth on a neighbors farm and from there I…
4x4: Basic Maintenance
4x4: Basic Maintenance - Although hard and heavy, even off road trucks need care, every now and again. Long periods of use in mud, sand and…
4WD Front Suspension - Choosing between IFS and SAS
4WD Front Suspension - Choosing between IFS and SAS - For years now, I’ve owned a Defender, which has had a solid front axle, but have…