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Mitsi Triton tow test tick

It doesn’t seem to matter what sort of recreational event you rock up to these days; if you have to tow your race, drift or drag car, or kart, road, dirt – and yes even your mountain - bike (MTB) to or from a track, park or paddock, the ‘car’ park will be chock full of modern turbo-diesel utes.

Where once there would have been a mix of big Aussie six cylinder and V8-powered sedans, the odd LWB Toyota Land Cruiser ‘station wagon’ and a smattering of light Japanese work trucks it is now wall-to-wall

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