it's time for show-off Sunday, where everyone has a chance to show off their
own car and here's this week's winner welcome to the video guys, I'd like to
thank Scotty Kilmer for giving me this opportunity to showcase my car, this is
my daily driver it's a 2007 toyota prado land cruiser prado, it's a 4 liter v6 and
i absolutely love it so one feature I really love about this
prado is the door like booth basically so you open it up and you get this
huge opening where you can just load stuff and of course you got a lot of
space here, quite a bit of space here to load luggage and what not, you got
a few options like the rear spoiler over
here which is a good option and you've got the roof racks as well just in case
you need a load stuff up there, I have of course added these chrome accents to the
car, running some dunlop 83s right now so it is an all-terrain tire
so gonna take the car for a little ride now I should mention it is a
Land Cruiser the second word pretty much says it you should be
cruising so it's not a car you want to be speeding and you know
accelerating and braking really quickly you're gonna screw up your gas mileage
completely, but let's take it for a little ride, it honestly is for me I find
it is very comfortable it is a very soft moving car the suspension
setup is extremely soft, the reason you buy these things is mainly because of
how reliable they are, they absorbed most of
the bumps, the steering is decently soft, and it does feel luxurious to me, it
does feel very cool very calm in here there you go it is yeah it is bloody
faster, other features apart from that that I like of course this one has the
sunroof, and why I think this car is perfect for Kenya see you got another
prado coming up straight away that just explains everything,
but basically you see a lot of these in Kenya and you'll see a lot of Land
Cruiser 100 series and 200 series as well, and that's because the roads are
not perfect, the roads are just not perfect, and you're going to come across
a lot of roads that are just unfinished and honestly they're quite challenging
so these cars are just perfect here and I love these cars because they really
retain their value very well, because they're so reliable and because they can
be running you know 300 400 500 thousand kilometers without any issues whatsoever
they hold their value very well
this is the vvt-i so variable valve timing and that really helps improve
fuel efficiency they had the 2.8 liter petrol, then they
had the 3 liter turbo diesel, and then they had this one which was the 4 liter
v6 petrol, which I believe is by far the best engine simply because of the amount
of power it has, the amount of torque it has you just feel like you got a lot of
power under your foot at any point in time, the car fits a lot of luggage 3 or 4
bags no issue whatsoever, so Airport trips
long journeys are just a breeze, so why these cars are so good off-road is as I
mentioned they're built on a solid frame as opposed to if you look at the other
manufacturers and European manufacturers and a lot of those cars that are just built
in an aluminium enclosure, so this of course is offering you a lot more
strength, it helps when you're going over potholes or sort of speed bumps at a
high speed, you don't have to worry about that, the full time 4 wheel drive
and of course you can lock the rear diff, and off-road capability these
things are basically untouchable and it gives you that confidence of the road
that I can go anywhere and I most likely will get out of that scenario, if you
look at the interior a few things have been changed of course, you can see here
there's a bit of carbon fiber trim I've just added that myself
gear cover and hand brake cover, the seats are covered with of course some
seat covers, nice soft material, this is a functional vehicle
that you don't want to worry about getting it dirty
so those mats really help out, steering cover because I realized the prado
have got a kind of a thin steering wheel and a lot of the shock when you go over
a rough roads a lot of the shock comes through the steering, so putting a
cover on is really useful, so one thing I really love about this
car is the high driving position, basically you sit a lot higher up than
you would in other cars or smaller cars and that really gives you a
commanding driving position you really do feel like king of the road, and I
believe the only other cars that give you this kind of driving position would
be a Range Rover, everything else is pretty much much lower down more sporty
but this really lets you sit high up, so we're just taking a beautiful drive in
sunny nairobi, so if we talk about maintenance schedules on these kind of
cars, basically it's extremely simple, you don't really have to do much you don't
really have to worry about much, just the standard stuff, if you change oil every
five to eight thousand kilometers, oil filters just about the same period, air
filters every twenty thousand kilometers, and spark plugs about every hundred
thousand kilometers and you don't really have to worry about anything else
this is a perfect example of what I mean by some of the roads in this country are
just unfinished and that's why these cars are so popular over here
so in these kind of scenarios you got long stretch of road, so comfortable so
soft and you could just drive like this for
hours and hours I want to thank Scotty once again for
giving me this opportunity to showcase my car love, the content love the videos
and just keep it coming thank you so much Scotty and here is the four liter 2007
prado my daily driver absolutely loved it,
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