Pick-up
03 Mar 2023
Isuzu don’t sell cars here in the U.K. I’m not entirely sure they sell cars anywhere else either. A quick Google – just for clarity I hasten to add - reveals them to be “a Japanese truck and engine manufacturer, currently producing a selection of commercial and personal vehicles as well as diesel engines for automobiles, industry and boats”. A few of us may remember the Isuzu Trooper...
03 Feb 2023
Just before Christmas last year… Oh, hang on, it was Christmas the year before… I found myself deep in the Brecon Beacons courtesy of Ford’s UK PR team. The Mission was simple: Drive a new Ford Ranger across Sarn Helen’s ancient Roman roads - none of which appear to have been resurfaced in at least 500 years – in the kind of weather only a Welsh winter could throw at us. Snow, sleet, rain,...
05 Jan 2022
It’s not often that you get the chance the really test a vehicle. A McLaren 720S for instance: I know it’ll do 0-62mph in little more than the blink of an eye, and on occasion I’ve been able to reaffirm such things. However the 720S’s claimed 212mph top speed is something I’ll probably never have either the space – in the correct facility of course - or perhaps the nerve, to prove. The...
26 Jul 2020
Up until fairly recently the chances are that if you were in the market for an Isuzu D-Max pick-up truck you were probably either a farmer or a builder, or a fleet manager for a utilities company. Isuzu state they are the pick-up professionals and in April, the D-Max won the Trade and Van Driver Best Workhorse pick-up award - for the 8th year on the trot. The D-Max then is a truck for those with...
24 Nov 2019
Perhaps it was Volkswagen who started it, with their Amarok. Or was it Mercedes Benz with the X-Class? Then again, the Americans have been doing it for far, far longer. But they would, wouldn’t they? It’s just so typical of them.
I’m talking of course about the plush pick-up truck. Surely you remember The Fall Guy’s GMC wideside?
Dubious early ‘80s TV nostalgia aside, there’s now no...
06 May 2019
After having driven one diagonally across Wales in December 2017 as part of its launch, it was difficult not to develop an affinity for the then very-new Mercedes Benz X-Class pick-up. It was comfy, and not just by pick-up standards: it genuinely rode well. It was well appointed; leather, sat-nav, heated seats, DAB and more. And it was more than rugged enough to cope with whatever the Welsh...
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