High horsepower, screaming V8s, and a volley of flying mud and dirt aren’t often met with adjectives such as ‘finesse’, ‘strategy’, and ‘inch-perfect’; however, in the world of 4x4 trials, they go together like gumboots and mud. In essence, the sport of 4x4 trials is all about carefully threading your truck through a series of gates at physics-defying angles, ploughing through mud holes, and bounding up vertical climbs without touching the marker pegs to accumulate points. Sounds simple enough, right? Well, it isn’t.
When many of us think of going 4x4 driving, a burgundy Toyota Hilux with a roof rack, bull bars, lift kit, and some BF Goodrich tyres usually comes to mind. If we rewind to the roots of 4x4, that may have certainly been true — yet evolution now sees us presented with a very different beast. While the older, more traditional machinery that we remember still serves as
