2025 Isuzu D-Max V-Cross Review – The Pickup That Flexes Hard!

Is it fast? No. Is it Cheap? No. Does it make sense? No. Do I want one? Yes!

I get a truck and I’m a kid with a Tonka Toy again. Okay, I won’t bash it into the table leg or drop it from the kitchen counter, but I still want to drive it with a big grin on my face. So when Isuzu asks if I would like to review the 2025 Isuzu D-Max V-Cross, despite the fact that I reviewed this generation of the pickup twice just a few years ago… I found myself struggling to decline.

Full transparency, I didn’t so much want to review it, as I just wanted to rock around in it! And when it turned up, I wasn’t disappointed, because they sent their Instagram special. A D-Max that had driven into the accessories warehouse and come out wearing EVERYTHING! More on that in a bit.

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10/10/2025 1

Car Review: Toyota bZ4X

Toyota’s first full-fledge EV is a RAV4-sized crossover jointly developed with Subaru

The bZ4X is Toyota’s first full electric vehicle offering, which may come as something of a surprise from the world’s biggest car company, coming at least five years behind much of the rest of the car industry, despite Toyota being among the pioneers of hybrid technology.

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2022 Nissan X Trail Review

7 Seats, Hybrid & It Off-Roads! [E-Power E-4orce]

Full review on-road and off-road of the new 2022 Nissan X-Trail with E-Power and E-4orce all-wheel drive, from the European launch in Slovenia this month. Prices, specs, how it works, the luggage space, 7-seat practicality, comfort and driving impressions. #BCGNissanXTrail

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21/11/2022 2

Ineos Grenadier Interior Reveal + detailed Walkaround [& Exclusive Interview]

This was at the UK reveal of the interior to media

Check out my walk-around and detailed look at the interior of the Ineos Grenadier – classically styled but modern off-roader. There’s also an interview with a senior executive that not only explains the philosophy and origins of the vehicle, but how it’s being developed, where’s being tested and built, and details about sales, specs and customers both in UK/Europe and the Middle East.

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15/08/2021 0

2021 Land Rover Discovery Review

The one that’s not a Rangey but you’ll think it is

The current Land Rover Discovery arrived in 2017 and was the first in the lineage not to use old-skool body-on-frame construction. It is now based on the same platform is its more opulent Range Rover and Range Rover Sport siblings. Which of course makes it less Farmer Faisel and more more Sheikh Salman.

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05/06/2021 0

Ford Ranger Raptor Review

The Ranger Raptor is the Ford Mustang of the pickup world, and I’ll prove it.

This is the Ford Ranger Raptor – I like to give it its full name wherever possible, because there is of course, The Raptor, (no, not the theropods from the Cretaceous Period) I mean the big bad Ford F-150-based monster pickup. That comes with a 450bhp, 3.5-litre V6, though not to the UK, it doesn’t.

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02/04/2021 3

Full Review: Jeep Wrangler 2.0-litre two-door

We know it overlands and adventures, but does it work as an urban warrior?

An all-new version of the Jeep Wrangler, the JL, was launched in 2018 – I attended the European launch of the car in Spielberg, Austria, where I drove Middle East spec versions (I was reporting for Motoring Middle East at the time) and you can see that video below. Unlike the Middle East, however, the UK gets a choice of the 2.0-litre petrol or the 2.2 diesel and the highly regarded V6 Pentastar engine is not offered.

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