It’s been long enough for us to accept the reality that luxury performance SUVs are a thriving bunch. Aston Martin was a bit late to the party with the DBX that premiered towards the end of 2019. The British moniker has taken the covers off the beefed-up version: the DBX707. Aston seems to have taken […]
The Range Rover is one of the most iconic premium SUVs around the world. You could say it’s the Willys Jeep or the Toyota Hilux for those who prefer luxury while traversing rough terrain. Today marks exactly five decades since the first one was launched and there’s a new special edition model to mark the […]
The super SUV market has been steadily growing over the last few years while the SUV craze has continued for nearly a decade. As more and more performance brands entered the segment, it was only a matter before Aston Martin would have to step in as well and they took almost 5 years to build […]
This is big. Literally. After many years of being ridiculed by many of my friends and myself, the BMW X range of SUVs finally gets a new member that has coloured me impressed. It’s the brand new BMW X7. I will admit that BMW doesn’t call its big cars SUVs and instead labels them as […]
Another day, another blend of genres and this time it’s Audi joining the group of the interesting-yet-pointless coupe-slash-SUV segment alongside BMW and Mercedes-Benz. This is the all-new, final-spec Audi Q8. Usually, the manufacturers claim that these kinds of crossovers bring together the best of both worlds. A claim that we usually don’t agree with, but […]
Another day, another SUV. That’s what it feels like these days as a car guy. On one hand, these bulky creatures are getting quicker and prettier and are pushing the boundaries of what a large, elevated, family car can be capable of. But this one is pure business. More specifically, business in the world’s biggest […]
Land Rover has brought back the design of the first ever Range Rover, fifty years since they introduced it and changed the segment forever. How? They took the current generation of the ideal luxury, stylish and capable SUV and gave it only two doors and a tapering coupé roofline. The result is the new, limited-edition […]
Once upon a time, not long ago, any car that could reach a 100kph from standstill in under four seconds was an impressively quick supercar. Around the same time, anything labelled as an SUV would not be capable of anything that would fit the description of being ‘quick’. But as the wave of the SUV […]
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