SUZUKI 4x4 QUADTRUCK?

[Johnnyboxer]

Could be ideal for farmers, at £8000
Half the price of a UTV

First impressions: Go-anywhere £8k Suzuki Quadtruck - Farmers Weekly

What’s smaller than a pickup, more reliable than a UTV, and more comfortable than a quad bike? It’s a Suzuki Quadtruck, of course – the lovechild of

www.fwi.co.uk

 

[beardface]

Looking into one at the moment. Not a planned purchase but polaris front diff has shat itself again (2nd time in 6 months). Need something a bit more OAP farmer proof!!

 

[Jerry]

Been watching these for a while, would like to see one in the flesh and see how they do off road.

On price alone they are way better than the gators I would think

 

[JP1]

I see the bed liner. Will the bucks rust for a pastime in UK weather?

 

[Pilatus]

I wonder what the estate think of their Suzuki Quad truck a year on almost to the day, when it was delivered as per picture

 

[davidroberts30]

we had a Daihatsu truck similar to that 30 year ago
3cyl 1l engine with high and low range and selectable 4wd
to be fair there wasnt many places that couldnt go was awesome in that respect

 

[d williams]

Could be ideal for farmers, at £8000
Half the price of a UTV

First impressions: Go-anywhere £8k Suzuki Quadtruck - Farmers Weekly

What’s smaller than a pickup, more reliable than a UTV, and more comfortable than a quad bike? It’s a Suzuki Quadtruck, of course – the lovechild of

www.fwi.co.uk

Used to have something similar to this on milk rounds Bedford rascal I think they were called not 4 wheel drive but excellent little trucks bit small in the cab though

 

[Jerry]

I see the bed liner. Will the bucks rust for a pastime in UK weather?

Think when they go through the workshop they fully underseal the belly

 

[Mctavish]

Been watching these for a while, would like to see one in the flesh and see how they do off road.

On price alone they are way better than the gators I would think

This looks like the same idea. Like you say would be good to have a try in one.

 

[davidroberts30]

This looks like the same idea. Like you say would be good to have a try in one.

thats what we had ,a hijet

 

[steveR]

Could be ideal for farmers, at £8000
Half the price of a UTV

First impressions: Go-anywhere £8k Suzuki Quadtruck - Farmers Weekly

What’s smaller than a pickup, more reliable than a UTV, and more comfortable than a quad bike? It’s a Suzuki Quadtruck, of course – the lovechild of

www.fwi.co.uk

Looked and asked about the Hijet Kei truck as tested above. Big money for fully specced, but a really neat bit of kit with the extended cab for "larger" Farmer type customers and teh hilift kit and big wheels. Can't be worse surely than a Land Rover for ergonomics internally?

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Could be ideal for farmers, at £8000
Half the price of a UTV

First impressions: Go-anywhere £8k Suzuki Quadtruck - Farmers Weekly

What’s smaller than a pickup, more reliable than a UTV, and more comfortable than a quad bike? It’s a Suzuki Quadtruck, of course – the lovechild of

www.fwi.co.uk

Remake of the fantastic Steyr Puch Haflinger?
I doubt if it will have ‘portal’ axles but perhaps diff-locks front & rear.
FYI Steyr Puch make the bigger Pinzgauer and the amazing Unimog which is of course badged as Mercedes.
The Haflinger was a go-anywhere 4x4 from the sixties and not dissimilar to todays gator, although with superb engineering and was powered by a 600cc air cooled boxer twin over the rear wheels so the weight was nicely balanced up.
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[suffolksmallholder]

Steyr-Puch Haflinger - Wikipedia

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[Pilatus]

Steyr-Puch Haflinger - Wikipedia

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Strange world, how come an equivalent isn’t made today??

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Strange world, how come an equivalent isn’t made today??

I have wondered but the difference between a Gator and dreadful cheap nasty engineering and quality engineering which these were is light years apart.
SS

 

[sjt01]

Strange world, how come an equivalent isn’t made today??

Haf chassis

 

[steveR]

Steyr-Puch Haflinger - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

SS

Amazing vehicles. I still remember Marshalling on an Enduro event for motorcycles in Mid Wales, about 1990... Saw one of these weird things climbing a bloody hillside that you would not have clambered up without ropes and spiked boots. The guy was a local farmer, into his bikes and used his Haf as a work tool.

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Haf chassis
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Mine was a 1972 SWB model with fibreglass roof and canvas doors with the two pop-up seats in the rear tray.
I had a set of twin-wheels for snow although the tyres were becoming difficult to find by the 90’s.
I had a lot of fun in it but there came a point when, like all good things, spares started to cost a lot of money and its value quadrupled.
It was unstoppable off-road!
SS

 

[sjt01]

Mine was a 1972 SWB model with fibreglass roof and canvas doors with the two pop-up seats in the rear tray.
I had a set of twin-wheels for snow although the tyres were becoming difficult to find by the 90’s.
I had a lot of fun in it but there came a point when, like all good things, spares started to cost a lot of money and its value quadrupled.
It was unstoppable off-road!
SS

If I ever got mine stuck I would get stuck myself when getting out!

 

[sjt01]

Mine was a 1972 SWB model with fibreglass roof and canvas doors with the two pop-up seats in the rear tray.
I had a set of twin-wheels for snow although the tyres were becoming difficult to find by the 90’s.
I had a lot of fun in it but there came a point when, like all good things, spares started to cost a lot of money and its value quadrupled.
It was unstoppable off-road!
SS

The one I had in UK was BSR783C, SWB which I did comp safaris and trials in the early 70s. Then I went to Malawi in 1975 and after a 1956 86" LR and a 1957 Unimog S404 type (army type), a Jeep CJ5, I then was able to get a LWB Haf with cab. In the dry season I got rid of the cab and used it with the open dash. This was in addition to various motor bikes. When I got the BMW R80GS my bike had a bigger engine than my car (Haf) - both flat twins.

Fetching a load of Haf spares from the Mission station in the North of Malawi, the local Haf agent

Comp safari 1975