Vehicle Tests

The G-Wagen is an imposing vehicle whichever way you view it, its reputation is legendary, but then so is the price. This particular G350 TEC BlueTec costs £83,830, then there’s the £22,320 worth of extras bringing the total up to an eye watering £106,150. For the 2013 model year, the G-Class underwent some significant changes, of course mainly on the ...

The Grand Vitara, in my mind is one of those sturdy workhorse type 4×4’s that you find on farms, in remote villages as well as the average driveway, a much loved and revered 4×4 that, when I learnt Suzuki was ending production, I arranged for their very last press car to be delivered to Crossaxle Towers (Northern Division), for immediate ...

The Range Rover Evoque or baby Range Rover as it’s also known was launched three years ago to much accolade. Granted it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but nothing ever is. I liked it from the time the first release pictures hit the web and on through my first drive off road in one. That was two years ago. I ...

Maybe it’s my age, but being on the wrong side of 45 I like my cars to sound like, well, cars.  Driving around in silence feels quite unnerving, it’s like watching your favourite band on stage miming, it’s wrong. At a recent press day I had the opportunity to take the new Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV plug-in hybrid for a spin ...

Between 1953 and 1998, Mitsubishi motors produced over 200,000 Jeep variants under licence from the Willys company in America.  Very few were exported, but as they were predominantly right hand drive, a few were imported into the UK. This particular example dates from 1979 and is just one of 8 that were ‘officially’ imported by the Colt Car Company. It ...

I’d spent the previous week in 4×4 writers heaven, from rock climbing in a Range Rover to messing around in a Mercedes G350.  It was a good week, proper 4×4’ing in proper 4×4’s.  So it was quite odd to be stood looking down at the Mazda CX-5 AWD, a Crossover SUV whose section of the market is becoming ever more ...