The reason of his statement is that he wants to show people that his own UAE built concept car is outperforming the H1. Check the guy's website and see his statement here below:
(this is a copy if Jon's post on my forum)
Al Dhabi and its brothers (see
www.advancedmodularvehicles.com) are UAE made, are not a copy of existing vehicles, do not get any engineering input from overseas and are build for the sole purpose to be the most reliable and performant desert vehicles in their classes and applications.
Al Dhabi specs are on the web site. It beats the H1 in 95% of the positions. If you are interested, I have a video of the H!-Al Dhabi comparison. You can see it but you cannot have a copy for obvious reasons.
H1 have the following weak points:
- Upper and lower ball joints on the suspension A arms are too weak.
- Transfer case housing is too weak so is the chain inside.
- Brake pads are sizing on the rotors, especially in the front.
- Steering idler arm likely to break.
- If CTIS equipped, always leaking.
- On gas engines, the fuel tank is subject to melting because the tank is not enough protected from the exhaust. The fuel creates vapor, the vapor dilates the "plastic" tank to such an extreme that the tank would actually touch the exhaust pipe.
- The gear hub will take a lot of play very fast and is too weak to stand any abuse in the rocks or with bigger tires.
Please note that most of these weak points are related to the civilian version only. The military versions are not exactly build the same way....
How do I know ? I was the GM of the Hummer dealership in Lebanon for 6 years and I have driven 4 door pick up and a 4 door wagon for over 3 years.
In reference to your H2 with 40" tires, be careful, The front and the rear differential are far weaker as the Dana 60. They are just about taking the abuse of the 35" tires. In the sand, no problem. In the rocks, you are likely to break a shaft after a few tuff outgoings.