>Toyota vans are also very solid and are good in frontal impacts.
>
>Andrew - yep, Toyota would be definite second choice, might even get the
>vote if diesel permanent 4WD with passenger suspension.
>I drove Mitsubishi LBW for several years making deliveries, tolerable
>transport but damn good value at the time (and 5 doors). Still wish I'd
>forked out for the Toyota tho'!
>Some people like 'em, but wouldn't touch a Mazda or Nissan.

Toyota DOES make full-time 4WD diesel Hiaces; Super Custom variant gets
rear torsionbars instead of cartsprings. Available in 3.0 EFI
turbodiesel... as well as 2.4 TD and 2.4 nonturbo.

Mitsubishi vans are OK if not diesel. Nissans seem unreliable and Mazdas...
and the diesels of these companies are also bad.

Andrew Grebneff
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Phone: 0064 (3) 473-8863
Fax: 0064 (3) 479-7527
165 Evans St, Dunedin, New Zealand
Fossil preparator, shell collector, Macintosh and VW & Toyota van nut
1984 Volkswagen Type 25 Caravelle GL (to be fitted with Subaru EG33 engine etc)
1986 CE80 Toyota Corolla DX diesel 1.8 sedan
1989 CE96 Toyota Corolla DX diesel 1.8 van
1989 CT170 Toyota Corona Select 2.0 diesel sedan
1992 CXR10G Toyota Estima Lucida 2.2 turbodiesel (=narrow-bodied Previa)