Creating a definitive list of the ‘best’off-roaders is something of a fool’s errand (although, as you can see, that hasn’t stopped us from trying).
Even although you pin down the basic parameters for comparison – breakover angles, wheel travel, wading depth, cost and so on – the problem becomes one of environment.
Some of those vehicles are created to crawl up boulder-strewn slopes where one crimped brake line will bring an abrupt halt to activities.
Others are created to bomb across loose surfaces at heroic speed, and in a manner entirely at odds with the cars whose incredible traction will haul them across impossibly slippery terrain at only walking pace.
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