Locals call it Australia's Hummer capital, though more Mercedes-Benzes and BMWs can be seen than the American off-road vehicle.
And they're also threatened by increasing off-road vehicle use, the recreational burning of oil in these, you know, pristine places.
Hummer, the off-road vehicle that once was a symbol of America's love for hulking trucks, is now in the hands of a Chinese heavy equipment maker.
By early 2003, 106 teams had emerged from the ranks of university students, robot clubs and off-road-vehicle enthusiasts.
John Nicholls, chief operating officer at SCAS, said that "our vehicle off road rate is too high at the moment".
At the time of its introduction, the Explorer was a radical new thing--and its functional name implied that you could take the vehicle off-road, a message that Ford wanted to communicate.
Two soldiers died after their vehicle slide off a road and rolled down a cliff, state media reported.
In Virginia, three people were killed, including a 22-year-old man who died Thursday after his vehicle ran off an icy road, went over an embankment and landed upside down in a creek.
Mr Paya's family dispute the circumstances around the 60-year-old's death and have alleged the vehicle was deliberately forced off the road.
Mr Paya's family have questioned the circumstances of the crash, alleging that the vehicle may have been forced off the road.
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In Ohio on Sunday, a sport utility vehicle veered off a two-lane road into a pond, killing six of eight teenage occupants.
In order for Range Rover to extend the vehicle's already amazing off-road chops, it had to do something about the truck's biggest dynamic liability: weight.
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This is possible in a 2WD vehicle, as long as you do not go off-road.
Police suspect there was a problem with the vehicle's brakes, causing it to veer off the road and smash into rocks before bursting into flames.
The offenders reversed into a police car, before driving off and abandoning the vehicle and cash machine at the junction with Low Road, police said.
Norfolk County Council's highways service said a gritter came off the road in the early hours at Griston, causing damage to the vehicle but the driver was unhurt.
On Sunday, Paya's daughter, Rosa Maria Paya, told CNN that her family believed a second car had struck the vehicle her father was traveling in, forcing it off the road.
Imagine barreling through the Amazonian rainforest with machetes flailing from the windows of your off-road rig, and just as you're about to kick the vehicle into low gear, you pause to consider the impact of your vehicle's exhaust (among other things) on the delicate ecosystem around.
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The civilian Hummer still has enough off-road agility, maneuverability, ruggedness and hauling capacity to qualify as a military vehicle virtually anywhere on Earth.
Aided by daylight, authorities spotted "numerous tracks off the road" and followed them for two to three miles before coming across a smoldering vehicle.
The fourth annual vintage-flavored on and off-road rally is scheduled to begin on Saturday, April 27 with a pre-event technical inspection, vehicle display and driver's meeting all taking place at the historic bullring in Mexicali, Baja, Mexico.
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After the taxi took a man in the vehicle to Newtownards, the women were dropped off in the Clonduff estate at the top of the Castlereagh Road in east Belfast.
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