The best advise that any of these guys could have given you, based on what you have said, would be for you to stay out of the desert. No offence, but off roading is no joke.... if you don't know your vehicle and how to handle it you have no business off road. Driving a car and driving a 4x4 off road are totally different. If you don't know how to pull your rig out of a slide it can land upside down and kill you! If you don't know how to drive in sand, water, mud, and over rocks you will end up with a broke down rig and be a very long way from home, and out of range of cell towers. If you feel a need to get out into the desert than find a good guide and save yourself the money on a 4x4 and maybe even your life.

Just as a side note: In the U.S. a 4x4 has to be shifted in and out of two and four wheel drive. All wheel drive is always in all wheel drive, no shifting in and out (landrovers and subarus) Traction contol is when an on board computer tells what wheels to be under power based on traction and road conditions.

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