So who wants to enter the "Maya Rally"?

http://www.mayarally.com/

The MAYA RALLY is a multi-week, multi-national, expedition scavenger hunt and challenge course. It pits teams of overland drivers in their own vehicles against one another and the elements, traverses thousands of miles of variable and unknown terrain, enters rarely-seen locations far off the beaten track, and spans countless foreign horizons. The MAYA RALLY is an overland adventure distilled to its most raw form: there is a start, there are designated challenges which must be completed for points, and there is a finish. Everything else is up to you. There is no route. There is no support. There are few rules. If you break your will, if you break your body, or if you break your ride, you are on your own. At a remote point deep in the forests of Latin America, at the farthest reaches of your long and perilous journey, you will be received by an End of the World celebration in your honor, and if you win, recognized with a healthy reward. That is, if you make it. The MAYA RALLY will confront you with the fact that the world could end for you before it does the rest of us.

I'd like an H1 Hummer for this challenge...

I'd run an ex-Camel D90. H1 Hummers are too big for the jungle.

GRM team?

Sounds like the Adventurists

Keith wrote: I'd run an ex-Camel D90. H1 Hummers are too big for the jungle.

This is the only correct answer...

Hmmm. Gimme a V6 4WD Rodeo Sport and two winches (one front, one back) and ten cases of beer. See ya at the finish!

Quads. Quads with big gas tanks.

I know my Sammy can do it...I was about to dump some cash into mods and fixes anyways, but I dunno about having enough cash to ship it to the start after that...I have nothing reserved for my vacation days this year though.

A Samurai is awesome for pure offroad ability but ideally you'd want something a bit more expedition-y for this. Maybe a Hilux (Toyota Pickup) or FJ-something.

Curmudgeon wrote: Hmmm. Gimme a V6 4WD Rodeo Sport and two winches (one front, one back) and ten cases of beer. See ya at the finish!

Two winches? You can buy a winch with quick relocation mounts you know...

Another vote for the (diesel) Hilux.

Keith wrote: I'd run an ex-Camel D90. H1 Hummers are too big for the jungle.

Yep when you're driving through jungle, frontal area, and especially width, is a bad thing.

Honestly, this sounds just like a Camel Trophy anyhow. So why not go with what's tested and true?

I mean, you may not have to do this. But you know you could.

Haha take note that the "ramps" he's using are traction planks tied to logs, that don't appear to be connected to each other in any way.

Hell yes! I'd do it in one of these:

Full-on Sumatra backwoods-spec BJ40 hardtop. In fact, I know the exact shop in Padang, Indonesia that I'd get it from. (There are a ton of them over there and a HUUUUUUGE off-roading community. You can get ANYTHING for one. Of course on Sumatra sometimes the line between "off-roading" and "on-roading" is rather blurred.)

^^ It might look that pretty like that at the start of the rally, but certainly not by the finish!

MG Bryan wrote: GRM team?

• Cameras + film crew = documentary = TV show = Profit?

"We want in."

Honestly... Xj for me.

slantvaliant wrote: "We want in."

Ditto

XJ too. Not stock of course but it wouldn't be anything wild either.

So I was reading this and thinking about what car I could use, then I realized, I have a 2012 Ford Escape4x4, and I don't have to pay for gas for it...although I doubt there would be fleet accepting fuel stations down there...wonder what my boss would think...

Conquest351 wrote:

MG Bryan wrote: GRM team?

+ Cameras + film crew = documentary = TV show = Profit?

I'd have a go at it it, and it would be very far from the worst decision I've made.

I'll bring the Zombiechero, who wants to co-drive?

I have experience as a Navigator in TSD rally, if anyone wants some talking ballast.

It might take me a bit long to finish the event, but I do have a 50cc Honda motorbike in the garage...