Red jeep wrangler cruising on Alki, this is the one I need for going to the beach, except is missing the half doors and a couple of surfboards on top of course

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I’ve been meaning to write and put some pictures up about some of the roads here in Costa Rica, more specifically in Guanacaste which is a rural area here in Costa Rica. Costa Rica have lots of paved roads, some of this "roads" are paved and therefore anyone with any car can travel to where these roads go, however there are many places that had never had been paved and are usually somewhat maintained yearly,  most of this unpaved roads lead to really cool places less traveled by people because only 4×4 vehicles can travel there, this is mainly because a car with enough ground clearance is needed to drive huge pot holes that are usually found on these roads, and more important because sometimes there are no bridges on the road and the car needs to cross these rivers, which usually are OK for a 4×4, however during the winter months, this places are unreachable because the rivers grow really high even for a 4×4, that makes lots of places only accessible during the summer months when the water level in the rivers is low.

This is the how the typical road roads looks like, in this one we just crossed a river.

After driving for a while we found this unmarked road that took us to this awesome beach called barrigona beach, however the road stops right at a small river moth that we had to cross by foot before reaching the actual beach.

We drove to the end of this particular beach which was only accessible because we drove right on the sand at low tide.

Sometime you can see pot holes filled with water, which I am not sure where it came from, since its supposed to be summer, probably from minor summer rains, in this picture we got lucky and it was easy to drive around the water.

Sometimes the water dries up a bit and the only thing left a huge mud stir that would probably trap a car that does not have four wheel drive.

As week kept driving, the pot holes filled with water became bigger and bigger.

Sometimes you can’t escape driving the car right into a big puddle of mud.

Most of the time is best to slow down and see what is the best approach to take: right, left, middle, both, none?

No where to go but straight into the unknown dirty water in the middle of what we believe is the road.

Hopefully there are no big rocks or log sticking up hiding in the water !!

Hope the car does not get too dirty.

Is it time to call triple A towing service yet?

I would call that a "normal" obstacle in the road.

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On our way back from the beach where we saw the turtle we had to cross one of the many river we usually cross to get to places that are less traveled by people. Since some of this rivers don’t have bridges my brothers and I consider this rivers as natural strainer for people (tourists and locals) who perhaps don’t have the right vehicle to get to this places. Fortunately we have a few 4×4 cars that can travel these roads, but sometimes, specially during holidays you can find people who are not used to this kind of things and they would go to this kind of places with the wrong car and they get stuck in the natural strainer.

This car got really stuck in this river we try to push it but unfortunately the clutch was spinning.

My brother drove to the other side of the river to try and help pull the car out of the river

Good luck trying to get this car out of this river

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One of my favorites cars is the Jeep, my brother and I really like like jeeps because they look very cool specially if they are soft tops, but sometimes he thinks he can drive them anywhere including rivers, guess next time I let him drive the jeep I’ll take the life vest with me. I think he wanted to go surfing really bad that he took a shortcut to the beach to save some time, unfortunately I don’t think that huge river would do any good to the jeep’s motor, and guess what? I now know who to blame when the motor starts leaking oil mixed with water.

Where the road go?

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Many people have 4×4 SUV’s, unfortunately they rarely use the 4×4 capabilities of such vehicles,  and when they do its usually for a little inconvenience on the road, like icy or muddy road. The real enthusiast that love to drive off-road and will try to come up with any excuse to use the 4 wheel dive have more experience and some of them are masters when it comes to driving a 4×4 car. I found a really amazing video of a Jeep that was slowly climbing a very tricky and very steep rock, this is amazing because the place where this jeep was going looks very very technical, one mistake and the jeep can roll over very easy, but the skilled driver in this vide makes everything look so easy. A word of advise to any rookies: don’t try something similar unless you have LOTS of experience rock climbing in your 4×4.

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A while back I posted about the Top Gear crew vs. rednecks, that was a short clip from a full episode of the British  program Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson, well for those of you who would like to enjoy the full episode I have included the video on this site. This is the Episode 3 from Season 9, and they wanted to go to American and travel across some states but instead they would try to buy a car for less than it would cost to rent one, and ad the end of the trip try to sell the car and see who of the 3 guys gets most of the money back, along the way they run into a some difficulties. This episode is particularly funny because of the cultural differences between England and USA, enjoy the video.

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So we’ve sometime heard people or in the news talk about fuel cells powered car, but must people don’t have a clue how a fuel cell works, well a fuel cell is used to produce electricity from hydrogen to power electric cars, which is different than powering cars that burn a hydrogen derived gas in the internal combustion chamber, like the BMW Hydrogen 7. In short I came across a really simple yet very good straight and to the point of how a fuel cell works.

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I usually don’t care much for computer animated videos, but this one is pretty cool, it looks like a yellow Ferrari is racing another, someone took the time and created this little clip, which I think its very fun to watch, specially because the things that you see in the video are completely impossible, but now are possible thanks to computer generated graphics.

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Jeremy  Clarkson from shows off the new Ford  GT and Ford GTX1, this are supposed to be awesome fast cars ever made in American, The Ford GT has 550 horse power and the Ford GTX1 has 700 horse power. This car probably does about 4 miles to the gallon but who care they look really good on the road, way better than a corvette, and the sound when they accelerate is music to my ears.

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This cool 4×4 car is pretty amazing enough to see it climb big hills, the frame of the car is custom build with big truck axles and a Chevy V8 engine, this is probably THE car to have when going off road, specially when going up hill, In this video the amazing vehicle with its huge mud scooping tires will go really fast on a lake trying to scoop as much water and as fast as possible to try to keep the heavy car afloat other wise, it will sink. They even had the car race in the lake again’s an snowmobile !!

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