THE 4x4 world is obsessed with the latest and greatest. We have to have the newest gear, the brightest lights, the most elaborate awning you could conceive. We’re desperate for an extra 5hp at the rear wheels, no matter how much power we had originally anyway. People line up out the door when a manufacturer releases a new model, the upgraded cupholders too tempting to ignore.
It’s been a slow change, one few people have noticed, but while 4x4s used to be built late at night in the garage with mates, they’re now built online one Afterpay order at a time.
But deep in the back country, far beyond the reaches of 4x4 fast fashion, hard graft is still piecing together some of the coolest builds on the tracks. Ryan
