HYBRID ON THE HIGHWAY T4 AND AFTER
The corrugations were intense, sending shudders up through the steering wheel, making the dash and the body panels dance as if to some macabre heavy metal music. The Tvan camper behind me was also jigging along to the percussive beat, but seemingly doing it far better than we were in the Cruiser. The same could be said for the van being towed in front of me, which moved little. The unique suspension design, invented by Track nearly 20 years ago, was doing the hard work, banging over the corrugations, dips and whoopty-doos like a mercurial axeman in the the midst of a guitar solo in front of 100 thousand adoring headbangers.
The corrugations could have been worse, I surmised, but I hadn't seen anything as bad or of this calibre for a couple of years of outback and international 4WD travel. The Anne Beadell Highway is a 'highway' in name only – the banging corrugations went on for a long, long, looooong time.
SUSPENSION
Prior to our appointment with the Anne Beadell, the T4's all-new chassis and MC-2R suspension had been subjected to severe and extensive testing regimen over ripple strips, bump strips and test tracks at the impressive and very trying Anglesea Proving Ground. It's worth mentioning, especially to those unfamiliar with the Track product and their
