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Thought to share event report with limited pictures of ‘Tame The Terrain’ event for Isuzu V-Cross jointly organized by
Viiraaj Isuzu (Regional dealer of Isuzu),
Isuzu India and
Pune Pathfinders. It was conducted on 26th February, 2017 at a private farm house near Pune.
It all started with a discussion with Isuzu team, dealership and key members. They (ISUZU) wanted to conduct their signature ‘Tame the Terrain’ event in or around Pune which they have already conducted in Chennai with Arka and received good feedback from participants.
Objective was simple
‘Introduce V-Cross customers with offroading, understand what wonderful things their vehicle can do at the same time ensuring no damage to their vehicles’. Objective for us was as usual finding out natural obstacles instead of man-made ones and ensuring it’s as challenging as possible be without compromising safety of occupants.
Utkarsh Bhandari and Pragalbha Bhandari from our group were kind enough to give us their vast farm house located at 45 minutes’ drive from Pune and 90 minutes’ drive from Bombay. Same place had held Triumph event for Poona and Bombay last year. Due to its being situated between hills we had enough natural obstacles for V-Cross. During our initial days of recce, we found that this land had few wonderful and hard core obstacles as well thus we thought why not to invite all of our group members for a day outing on the same day and also to give a glimpse of hardcore offroading to visitors and V-Cross owners (yes, we did offer free joy rides to whoever was interested to promote the sport). It turned out to be a good decision as more than two dozen vehicles from our group turned out for that day and we had nice get to gather.
It took us more than a month (5 weekends) to identify and get the tracks ready. It was last 4 full days of camping there for the team to get everything organized, right from briefing venue to catering to water to seating to what not. Two weeks before one senior member Mr Vijay Sethi who is into flying paracopters also pitched in and on the day of the event few lucky visitors got the ride on copter. It was free ride for selected few on request basis. And thanks to him many experienced another facet of adventure.
Few recce pics of Isuzu.......
Looks like you guys had a lot of fun.
The Isuzu is one beautiful package that makes my heart do its best to convince my brain that I should sell my hatchback and change my life plans.
So we prepared 5 tracks for V-Cross and 5 extreme tracks for Jeeps. Tracks were designed in such a way that normal and extreme tracks were next to each other thus reducing logistical headaches as well as less walking/navigational help for visitors.
Each track had 3-4 team members from our groups acting as navigator, spotter, track management, recovery vehicle. Each track had seating arrangement with ice box for cooled beverages, first aid kit, walkie-talkie recovery equipment and firefighting equipment. For easy navigation, each track had numbers and drivers were required to follow numbers, you need to start with 1, to 2, to 3 and so on…
Itinerary:
08:00 hrs : reporting at Viraaj Isuzu (dealer)
08:30 hrs : registration and briefing about the event
09:00 hrs : Breakfast
09:30 hrs : Flag off for Bhandari Farms
10:30 hrs : reporting at Bhandari Farms
10:45 hrs : Briefing about different tracks at event HQ
11:00 hrs : all tracks open
13:30 hrs : Lunch at event HQ
16:30 hrs : high tea
17:30 hrs : Souvenir from dealer and Isuzu
Reporting, registration and flag-off: Event Venue:
One of our friend got his dirt bike for a practice run (he is a pro moto cross rider and RFC participant) and he was not disappointed either
Two weeks before one senior member Mr Vijay Sethi who is into flying paracopters also pitched in and on the day of the event few lucky visitors got the ride on copter. It was free ride for selected few on request basis. And thanks to him many experienced another facet of adventure.
Man, that beast is a very capable offroader.clap:
Thanks for sharing.
The pictures are awesome. This vehicle is slowly growing on me but so far reason has prevailed and also there is the question of moolah.:D
Extreme catagorywalahs had gone a bit too far methinks, but each to his own.
Thank you for the coverage of the event and the great pictures!.
The V-cross does look like a very capable machine indeed, to tackle these sorts of terrain.
I particularly like the D-box cover at the back that the black/brown vehicle had. It gives the vehicle a more up-market and a 'complete' feel, compared to the pick-up truck type appearance of the stock one.
Btw, although the ground clearance must be good for this beast, did anyone face issues due to its long wheel base, on terrains such as this?
Cheerio.
Hey that's our Endeavor :)
It indeed was a awesome event and the best part was that people could put their own vehicles on the track and then test drive the v cross and do a comparison.
Was also great meeting old timers from the mumbai pune off roading fraternity.
Im sold on the v cross.
It was a great event! :)
Me along with bhpian ycj, //M and 599gto had attended it. I had seen your post on the hvk Whatsapp group so knew you would be present there too but couldn't meet you. When we were at the trail 3 & 4 you were on the other side. Met a few bhpians from the pune off-road community.
Talking about the truck it was fantastic. Pretty capable in its stock form just that the long wheel base and the rear overhang were an issue. But then it's the cheapest "new" Japanese diesel 4x4 you can buy today. Loads of add ons available in the open market. Nevertheless a fantastic option.
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