Cross Country Trip In A Roxor

For some reason this article reminded me of the trip @ITLKSEZ made bringing his Jeep back to Idaho from Pennsylvania, but with less mishaps.

It sounded like the roxor took it in stride, and the fact that the guy has a rubicon gladiator and still chose to take the roxor is telling that there's a place in the market for a truly roadworthy version.

A 1,300-Mile Road Trip in a Mahindra Roxor UTV Shouldn’t Be Possible, But This Guy Pulled It Off

 

And that guy gets an article for it? Pfft.

 

It's a brand new vehicle. Why shouldn't it go 1300 miles before exploding? Just because it doesn't have modern safety ratings means nothing..

 

I was curious what the "small transfer case incident" that was mentioned was about....

 

"His wife followed him there and back just in case"

Loser.

Try this for comparison.
The Straight Story - Wikipedia

"the true story of Alvin Straight's 1994 journey across Iowa and Wisconsin on a lawn mower."

 

While it was not nearly as far as ITLKSEZ's trip.... my wife and I did nearly 900 miles in my Jeep for our honeymoon. We didn't need a brand new gladiator following us just in case we broke down.....
I admire this guys willingness to video blog his adventure, I don't have the patience for that.... and I don't want to bore you guys that much.....

 

Good lord in Sept of 76 a buddy of mine and I drove about 800 miles (100 of it off road) in a 3 day weekend in my Willys it had been used as every day transportation for 9 years before that by my dad and then my 3 years driving it in high school.

 

Probably forgot to shift into 2-hi.

 

Sounds like it was overfull and the highway speeds caused it to puke some oil out.

 

This Roxor Jeep has been heavily transformed into a standard car. I don't see a miracle.
The Jeep on my "avatar" was used to go to South of France, nearly 900 km, non-stop travel with my friend, in summer.
And then back in November, freeze, 2 days... It was so cold inside that we could not go fast... One stop at half travel.
And I brought back my Jeep from the PO place, was in the Alps mountains.
Non-stop to my place, with some adventures.
Approx 700 km, leaving at 12, arriving next day 3 in the morning, exhausted.
My son followed with the Audi but all went well, or nearly.
As said, at my first stop in gas-station, I filled and filled until I saw my feet in ... gas, tank cap where the gauge was in was not well fixed...
Nobody smoked around, by chance.

 

my dad has done new york to alaska quite a few times, in far less ideal cars. one was a metro, looked about like this

 

If I recall, ITLKSEZ had a good number of folks "following" him from this very forum!

 

My wife and i drove clear across the US in a U-haul box van.

We flew back east to meet family and collect some inheritance furniture items for my MIL. Cruised all the way from Tennessee back to California along route 66. I still remember re-falling in love with my bride during that trip.

 

one day i will have a roxor. they are pretty neat. id use mine on the street though, if i cna get it street legal'ed or follow the ecj5 group on the epic Colorado fall trip.

 

Anybody here take a greyhound bus cross-country? Would not recommend.

 

i went from CA to WI. bu i was 5 or so. it was an adventure then, sleeping on the bus floor. as an aware adult, i wouldnt recommend it either.

 

68 hours. It wasn’t bad from ID to around Minneapolis. Only a few people on the bus. From Chicago to NYC it was packed, and the lady diagonally across the isle from me was yelling in Spanish non-stop and kept blowing her nose in her bare hand.
Then my luggage was put on another bus in NYC. Fun times.