BEIGE KILLER

THIS WILD ’RADO IS PUTTING AN END TO BEIGE 4X4s ONCE AND FOR ALL … AND THAT’S JUST FOR STARTERS.

- DAN EVERETT

PICTURE your dream 4x4. A healthy canopy set-up on the back for remote touring; a locker at either end, with some chunky mud-tyres ensuring you’ll make it up any track you point it at; a bullbar up front to keep it safe from animal strikes; and some killer suspension underneath helping smooth out corrugation after corrugation.

Got a good mental picture in mind? Perfect. There’s one just like it sitting proudly on Loyalty Beach right now. There are two more just a short drive up the track at Punsand Bay. There are three more rolling into Birdsville as you read this, and another four parked up at the pub at Weipa. Most of them are beige, or Sandy Taupe as the marketing departments have dubbed it. You see, while 4x4s are a product of function over form they very frequently end up being cookie-cutter builds, straight out of the mould someone else built, just with a few different stickers slapped on the side.

Tyler’s Colorado is far from beige, in the figurative and literal sense. It’s his perfect creation, every square inch of it dreamt up in his mind and pieced together methodically by his own hands to create something truly unique – something that stands out from the crowd.

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