Julian Edgar, 50, has been writing about car modification and automotive technology for nearly 25 years. He has owned cars with two, three, four, five, six and eight cylinders; single turbo, twin turbo, supercharged, diesel and hybrid electric drivelines. He lists his transport interests as turbocharging, aerodynamics, suspension design and human-powered vehicles.
Mitsubishi gets it as wrong as Ford has got it right
Over the years I have made it abundantly clear I am not a fan of SUVs. Call them what you will – ‘four-wheel drive’ is clearly now a misnomer – but a truck-like vehicle with a high centre of gravity, greater aggressiveness in typical road crash impacts, high profile tyres with poor grip that provide vague steering around centre, lousy aerodynamics, crap interior packaging and the apparently unbreakable habit of being thirsty do not, methinks, make for a good passenger car. As a heavy duty towing machine, sure. As a genuine Outback tourer through the dirt and the dust, fine. But not a vehicle appropriate for dropping kids off at school and doing the weekly, urban shopping run.
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