We have put the TOP 16 medium SUVs up against each other in a light off-road test to see which is the best one to buy if you need to do any light off-roading. The results shocked us with the Subaru Forester dethroned as the BEST medium SUV for light off-road driving.
Watch out last Medium SUV Megatest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsEFOH7KP-Q&t
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Intro: 00:00
Kia EV5: 03:08
Honda CR-V: 09:50
Hyundai Tucson: 14:18
Jaecoo J7: 18:37
Kia Sportage: 23:05
Mazda CX-5: 29:20
Mazda CX-60: 32:59
Mitsubishi Outlander: 36:54
Nissan X-Trail: 42:18
KGM Torres: 48:28
Subaru Forester: 52:02
Toyota RAV4: 58:20
Volkswagen Tiguan: 1:03:32
Skoda Karoq: 1:08:16
GWM Haval H6 GT PHEV: 1:12:02
Volkswagen ID.5 GTX: 1:16:48
Results: 1:22:08
Verdict: 1:22:59
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#suv #offroad #review
Watch out last Medium SUV Megatest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsEFOH7KP-Q&t
Skip Ahead:
Intro: 00:00
Kia EV5: 03:08
Honda CR-V: 09:50
Hyundai Tucson: 14:18
Jaecoo J7: 18:37
Kia Sportage: 23:05
Mazda CX-5: 29:20
Mazda CX-60: 32:59
Mitsubishi Outlander: 36:54
Nissan X-Trail: 42:18
KGM Torres: 48:28
Subaru Forester: 52:02
Toyota RAV4: 58:20
Volkswagen Tiguan: 1:03:32
Skoda Karoq: 1:08:16
GWM Haval H6 GT PHEV: 1:12:02
Volkswagen ID.5 GTX: 1:16:48
Results: 1:22:08
Verdict: 1:22:59
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00:00:00all-wheel drive temperature too hot only front wheels may be powered oh that's not good yeah
00:00:09that's like a hard hit to the point where it's actually not closing the door so that is a fail
00:00:17on the door slam test g'day i'm paul we have assembled almost every single car in this
00:00:23segment including some electric cars to do a mega medium suv off-road test a bit of light
00:00:29off-roading and we are going to crown a winner by the end of this video this is the new subaru
00:00:33forester and today i want to figure out whether the forester is still the king off-road we did one
00:00:36of these a little while back and this was the best medium suv for off-road driving so i'm going to run
00:00:41you through the test i'm going to kick things off okay so this will be our first test it is to figure
00:00:48out whether the body is structurally rigid and that is going to involve opening and closing the door
00:00:55so at this point here we have two wheels unloaded if the door can open and close tells us that it's
00:00:59got rigid chassis and that it's going to be strong enough to withstand some light off-roading now our
00:01:05second test this is where stuff gets interesting so we've got a set of rollers built into the road here
00:01:10and while pretty much every vehicle on the market will be able to get up this side here with only
00:01:15one side of the vehicle on rollers we're going to make things a little difficult we're going to have
00:01:20three sets of tires on rollers and to start off with we're going to allow the vehicle to have one
00:01:25front wheel on pavement to see it pull itself up but where they're really going to struggle is where
00:01:30the rear wheel is on pavement and we have three other tires on these rollers because it will really
00:01:36separate those front wheel drive-by's vehicles with the ones that can properly manage torque on the
00:01:41rear axle now our final test this is where things get a little interesting this is a 40 grade i'm going
00:01:47to be putting the tires through this channel here and that channel there i'm going to try and make it
00:01:51to the top now some of them are going to make it all the way up some probably won't even make it up
00:01:55this far really set apart the vehicles with good traction control good all-wheel drive systems and
00:02:00those that just rely on electronics because it is it is quite difficult to get up here now let's talk
00:02:05about the contenders we've got 16 cars in total up on the screen you can see all the cars that we
00:02:11selected for this test these are basically all the cars that are on sale in australia in the medium suv segment
00:02:16we did put a price cap on it and just left all the luxury stuff out we might do that as a separate
00:02:21test down the track then you'll also see cars that we weren't able to get it was either manufacturers
00:02:26that didn't want to be involved didn't respond to our emails or didn't have a car available all of
00:02:32the cars you see are all-wheel drive variants and we allowed the manufacturer to pick the spec that
00:02:37they gave us with the criteria being that this would be an off-road test now this isn't a comparison
00:02:43of cars against each other it is really just a benchmarking test to see which cars in controlled
00:02:49environments can pass our tests now each of the tests is either a pass or a fail with five points
00:02:55available for each test the exception is our hill climb where you get five points for making it to
00:03:01the first cone and an additional point for each cone you make all the way to the top for a maximum
00:03:06available 24 points okay so uh just for this first car i'm going to run through these tests
00:03:13and what we're aiming to achieve here so obviously with something like this you want to see how strong
00:03:18the body is on the car that they've engineered so we've set up this tiny little mogul here just to
00:03:22basically unload the front right and the rear left wheel just so we can see how much uh much rigidity
00:03:30there is in this body so that's around that spot just there so that's how that feels there we go no
00:03:38dramas at all so that opens and closes without any issues so that is a pass here for the kia ev5
00:03:44okay now rollers this one is tricky uh in theory an electric car because you have instant torque and
00:03:52they have the ability to infinitely control electronically each axle electric cars should do really well here but
00:03:58the biggest complication is going to be if you don't have the ability to control torque on a single
00:04:02axle at the rear then it's going to be it's undoing so i'm going to roll on first with just the front
00:04:07right hand tire having traction and we'll see how this goes um and i'll basically also just try and get
00:04:14us get us through a couple of these drive modes so this one doesn't have any off-road modes it is just
00:04:19in its normal mode for this test in particular i'll try a couple of different uh drive modes to see how he
00:04:24goes so all right here it goes going to roll onto the throttle now i mean this is struggling even with
00:04:32even with the front wheel having traction that is um that is struggling big time all right we'll
00:04:38give that one more shot in theory with one front tire having traction this should easily get up there
00:04:44but okay i'm weighing up
00:04:46all right so there we go front tire has traction there i'm going to roll onto the throttle again
00:04:52okay there we go i think it's it's hooked up now
00:04:58okay there we go all right that worked okay go back and give that one more shot this time
00:05:06the hard part of the test which is the rear tire without traction so with the rear tire at not
00:05:12having traction this is where something like a rear diff lock works well because it's able to split
00:05:16torque evenly over that rear axle and that gives you the drive you need up the hill
00:05:19uh this is going to be tricky in terms of getting this to to line up so all right there we go so both
00:05:26fronts uh without traction rear left without traction i'm going to roll onto the throttle now
00:05:32struggling there all right i'm going to roll back and just try a different drive mode here
00:05:49now i'm going to try uh sport mode here see if that makes any difference so it actually did get
00:05:54itself up to the point where it almost reached and then it just started sort of falling apart there so
00:05:59give that one more crack now and just see how we go okay so the front wheel is onto the roller
00:06:06and then we will roll onto the throttle
00:06:08yeah so that's not um that's not getting us that's not getting us anywhere so it's just flaring up the
00:06:16wheels just way too fast in sport mode so last mode i can try here is snow mode so i'll give that a shot
00:06:22see how that performs so front onto there come up to a stop okay here we go rolling onto the throttle
00:06:29that's um it's catching on the concrete on the other side so all right so it's a pass for uh front
00:06:42wheels and a fail for rear wheels here for kiri v5 all right let's get over to the gradient this is
00:06:48the bit that i'm excited about now it's going to be tricky so 40 gradient it's around 20 degrees so
00:06:54fairly steep we're going to be using the right hand side channel and the car's going to struggle
00:06:58for traction i'm going to go up with constant throttle to keep it equal for each of those cars
00:07:02so at around 10 k's an hour is what i'll approach the hill with and then just stay constant throttle
00:07:06and start adding throttle as i go we'll try each of the main drive modes just to see how it sort of
00:07:12how it gets about should also call out as well uh tires so obviously all of these vehicles are on
00:07:17different tires we're not using a control tire because that would really then become a tire test i want
00:07:22to see what these are like straight out of the factory as you would take them to a light off-road course
00:07:26like this if you are going to do some serious off-roading you're going to change your tires
00:07:29and it's going to change everything we want to test these how they are as they come from the factory
00:07:33so we'll start off here in normal mode first let's see how we go all right made it
00:07:41just to the first one there excellent
00:07:45all right we're starting to add a bit more throttle here it's now just flaring up those wheels
00:07:53traction control is killing all the fun here all right i'm going to stop there we're going to go
00:08:00back down and just try a different drive mode here
00:08:03now let's try well try snow mode see if that helps at all there's about 10 k's an hour
00:08:10okay gradually applying throttle here okay snow mode is it's actually not too bad it's sort of
00:08:19letting us progress a little bit here struggling now that doesn't feel like we've made it any further
00:08:27than last time
00:08:28just minor rotations of the wheel but we're not actually getting anywhere all right
00:08:36last mode we're going to try is sport mode comically so we'll see how that fares
00:08:42um okay here we go sport mode
00:08:45this feels like it's just flaring up the wheels a whole lot more that's now pinned to the board
00:08:55yeah no success there all right and the very last thing i'll try here is just turning uh traction
00:09:03control off just to see whether it is just a dodgy traction control system that is stopping us from
00:09:09getting anywhere so here we go
00:09:11come on that's just flaring up the wheels so no bingo so basically we only just sort of made it to
00:09:29that second cone we'll review the footage and see whether it deserves the points there but
00:09:33i don't know not really much of an off-roader here and with sort of fairly limited ground clearance as
00:09:38well um yeah this isn't a car i'd be heading uh to do any light off-roading in so let's jump into
00:09:44the next car and see how we go
00:09:45on to crv time this actually has pretty reasonable ground clearance let's see how rigid the body is here
00:09:58get that wheel up
00:10:00we can even get it over this tiny little hump sorry i gotta yank it over there all right there it is
00:10:14there so
00:10:15cool rigidity is good let's head over to our rollers now with the rollers this has no drive modes we've
00:10:27really only got like d and then s it has a continuously variable transmission so it'll be
00:10:31interesting to see how this copes but it does have a drive line that runs from the engine down to
00:10:35the rear wheels so that should help it in this scenario we will see how we go so front wheel drive test
00:10:41first line it all up bring the front wheels over the motor over the roller perfect okay here we go
00:10:50oh no can't even can't even get us movement with the front wheels over there that's not good
00:10:59um i'm going to try that in s mode as well
00:11:03okay there we go pop that into s we'll see if it makes any difference at all
00:11:13quite generous on the throttle as well okay that's that's helping
00:11:18okay that made the difference that we needed so we'll go back now and we'll see how we go with
00:11:28just a rear wheel controlling things i don't know how much luck we're going to have see what happens
00:11:33okay so i'm going to keep it in s mode for this get that rear wheel lined up so it's not on the
00:11:41rollers okie dokie hard on the brake and then we'll get on the throttle no just no success there at all
00:11:50you can see that it's it's not sending anywhere near enough drive to that
00:11:55rear axle for it to achieve anything i'll try turning traction control off here as well
00:12:00no bingo and all wheel drive temperature too hot only front wheels may be powered so
00:12:13it's pretty much a fail for that second test only really just passed on the first one as well so
00:12:18yeah a little bit disappointing there just to kick off with i'll leave it in drive
00:12:23and then i'll try going to s mode which seem to work better on the rollers
00:12:27wow i only just made it past that first cone
00:12:34it's the issue with these cvts they're kind of useless for
00:12:39any sort of off-road driving like this because they just sit there flaring up throttle
00:12:44so i'll go over to s mode here we'll see if that makes any difference
00:12:48okay lost in throttle
00:12:53it's helping a little bit okay i'm now flat to the board
00:12:58absolutely nothing happening um what else can we try here it does have paddle shifters i'll try and
00:13:08manually lock in first gear just to see if we have revs slightly higher whether it helps it get out of
00:13:15this situation okay so that should keep it more in a in its boost range okay it's actually spinning
00:13:25the wheels now which is further than we progressed before
00:13:28so we're not getting anywhere all right one last thing i'm going to try here
00:13:33is traction control off just to see if that makes any difference at all
00:13:38okay here we go traction reduced
00:13:42first gear again all right
00:13:44that is now pinned to the board
00:13:52trying to add a bit of lock
00:13:55absolutely donuts okay so conclusively i would not be using a honda crv for any off-road driving
00:14:04because um yeah it can't even get up like even the basics of this hill so yeah pretty disappointing
00:14:10there but um kind of to be expected cvt not really conducive to any of this type of driving
00:14:15tusson next uh this is a hybrid drivetrain so it's going to switch between running in electric
00:14:24and uh the engine uh sort of on um this also has some terrain modes as well so we'll see how that
00:14:31goes in a sec but first up we'll see what our door slam test looks like bring this up here
00:14:39okay
00:14:41so around there somewhere okie dokie
00:14:46nice very strong no dramas there at all so let's head over to the rollers
00:14:53this hybrid is configured with a driveline that runs down the center so let's see how it all goes
00:15:01i've got it in eco mode
00:15:03eco mode just to start with we'll do our front wheel drive test up the top here
00:15:08okay that's about there okie dokie here we go rolling onto the throttle
00:15:15nice i can feel that immediately giving us the torque that we need
00:15:20and then we're heading straight up the hill fantastic that was really impressive okay so
00:15:26front wheel drive mode in eco no dramas at all so go back give it a shot now for rear wheel drive
00:15:32okay rear wheel drive test this one is actually really difficult to do so
00:15:37without a rear diff lock it is quite hard to achieve like my foot is flat on the brake here
00:15:42but it is rolling backwards so even that isn't a very good sign like i pushed it in as hard as it
00:15:46would go but we're not getting enough braking on that rear wheel to stop the vehicle so
00:15:50let's see how this performs
00:15:52okay so we're on the roller there now what it's actually that was doing great so that's a pass
00:16:02for that test because what it's done is it's allowed the rear wheel to rotate to give this
00:16:07the drive that it needs to move forward obviously then once you have all four all four wheels on the
00:16:12roller it doesn't go anywhere but that is a pass for front wheel drive and a pass for rear wheel drive
00:16:15so it's pretty impressive stuff here from the tucson before i engage any of these um terrain modes
00:16:22let's leave it in eco mode given it it's uh done so well so far so we'll see how we go here and then
00:16:27i'll shift it up and move through some of those other drive modes to see how it performs
00:16:32tucson is the dark horse here it's sort of um progressed really quickly up until that point
00:16:44now traction control is just figuring out what it wants to do
00:16:47all right that's about it for eco mode so i'm going to go back now and we'll engage one of these
00:16:52um terrain modes so you've got normal drive modes but then you have these off-road modes you press
00:16:59that and then it allows you to flick between them so i guess we'll go mud to start with and see what
00:17:03happens there and then you'll notice as well i've got the screen up there with where drive is going
00:17:09whether it's to the front or rear axles i'm having to put a lot more throttle in right now
00:17:15i'm almost flat to the board but it does feel like it's progressing a little further there i can't pin
00:17:21to the board now it's sort of nudging forward bit by bit you can see it's sending full power to
00:17:27to both the front and rear axles it's just not getting enough drive there it's sort of really just
00:17:33sitting at a low rpm and not oh here we go go go go go go go it's getting further and further i was
00:17:42just staying flat to the board here to see if it eventually gets drive it seems to be figuring
00:17:46itself out and then nudging it forward
00:17:48go go go go go all right oh so close come on it's so close
00:17:59okay i reckon we're gonna get this yes yes yes yes go go go go go
00:18:06yes look at that tucson for the win that is unreal took a bit of faffing around there but
00:18:15it got up there which i'm genuinely impressed by i didn't think you know a hybrid with this
00:18:21configuration that's really just tuned for for economy would get up there so so efficiently so
00:18:28there you go tucson scored all points on each of these tests very impressive
00:18:34so jqj7 next it's interesting they marketed this car as quite sort of off-road capable uh when they
00:18:44launched it so it'll be interesting to see how it goes here it has a dual clutch which in the past
00:18:50hasn't been great for these uh all-wheel drive vehicles especially when they're on on sort of
00:18:55incline so we'll see what happens so off with our door flex test
00:18:58little touch down there i can already hear these seals uh moving around a fair bit as well so
00:19:07all right here we go nice opens and closes very easily there which is good switched itself off
00:19:18because i've opened the door how good is technology okay back in drive get off that perfect so it's a
00:19:25pass for our flex test let's head over to the rollers okay let's see how we go i'll start off
00:19:31just in normal mode and it's got some off-road modes so we can try those if we don't have any
00:19:36success here front wheel drive test okay so that is front wheel off the rollers rear wheel is on the
00:19:44rollers here we go push onto the throttle harder harder no no luck there i'm going to try a different
00:19:55drive mode there just to see if we have any success in another drive mode so we've got an
00:20:00off-road mode sport mode
00:20:02sand mode off-road mode which gets announced as you drive so let's see if that makes any difference
00:20:10at all okay bring that front wheel off the roller which is about there okay here we go
00:20:17doesn't make a lick of difference it's a shame so that is uh a fail there for the front wheel
00:20:30drive test there's probably no point even trying the rear wheel drive test but we'll give it a crack
00:20:34anyway just to see what happens but it doesn't bode well for its off-road abilities so get the front
00:20:40wheels onto the roller okay and here we go
00:20:45no it just caught the concrete on the edge there so that's a fail for front wheel drive and rear wheel
00:20:58drive which is disappointing uh we'll see what it's like when we get to our gradients okay so we'll try
00:21:05um normal mode first and then i'll get through the um the off-road modes and see how we go i can already
00:21:12feel this dual clutch is going to be a pain
00:21:15that is flat to the board
00:21:21okay gearbox overheat
00:21:27now let's go back try off-road mode see if that makes any difference
00:21:34okay
00:21:36mud mode sand mode
00:21:41off-road mode i just love that it announces everything okay here we go off-road mode
00:21:46again constant throttle about 10 k's an hour into it
00:21:50that is flat to the board
00:21:55gearbox overheat again
00:22:03um what should we try now um let me just try switching traction control off with off-road mode
00:22:10running see if that makes any difference at all so off-road esc off
00:22:16a bit of spool there from the turbo that is now flat to the board
00:22:33gearbox overheat again and it's just released so yeah okay it didn't really do that well so we
00:22:41basically had pass on the door rigidity test a fail on our rollers a fail here on the hill as well
00:22:49yeah i mean i wouldn't be taking this thing off-road despite all the marketing that suggests that it can go off-road
00:22:55look i'm not gonna bother with the other drive modes simply because it's coming up with a gearbox
00:23:00overheat warning so i don't want to kill the car and the other drive modes are probably just going to do the exact same thing
00:23:05okay so kia sportage this is the uh facelift of this car
00:23:09it's got the same drivetrain as the tucson that we have here so the petrol hybrid setup with a proper
00:23:14driveline down the center so we'll see how it goes uh first up let's check the strength of this chassis
00:23:21get that uh set of tires in the air
00:23:24which is around about there somewhere
00:23:27nice that all feels good jump over to the rollers
00:23:34put it in drive first
00:23:38okay
00:23:43now front wheels first we'll get those clear of the rollers and we will give this a shot it's currently
00:23:50in eco mode but this has a stack of different uh drive modes that we have access to so i'll start
00:23:56going through those if it does get stuck so roll onto the throttle
00:23:59that's hooking up pretty much straight away there so
00:24:06you can see that front right wheel has just pulled the vehicle entirely up that which is good
00:24:12all right we'll go back give this another crack this time with the rear wheel doing all the hard work
00:24:17you know it's interesting um these cars not that long ago one of them had a button to lock
00:24:23like a center clutch pack that's all gone now they're relying mainly on traction control to do
00:24:29all the heavy lifting so you know just a fun observation so all righty there it is uh we've
00:24:34got front wheels my foot is buried into the brake there but it's not um it's not stopping us so i'm
00:24:40going to just try that again come onto it one more time it's interesting even though the foot is buried
00:24:45on the brake it's not sending enough braking power to that rear right to stop it from moving so
00:24:49you have to be a bit quicker on the brake here slow it down and touch okay there it is there
00:24:55it's still not holding it my foot is like into the firewall there so let's try accelerating
00:25:01gradually and we'll see how we go that is working though we've got
00:25:06the rear wheel there doing all the the heavy lifting and then we've got all four on the roller
00:25:13there so um that's a pass just the uh the braking effort required there when we have only one wheel
00:25:20that that has a solid planting is pretty poor so it's a pass there for the front wheel test the
00:25:26rear wheel test uh and also the the door test as well so let's go to the gradient this is positive
00:25:31sign so far okay so uh you've actually got buttons here on the steering wheel one is your normal sort
00:25:37of drive modes but the terrain modes allow you to move between these separate off-road modes so i'll
00:25:43leave it in just eco for the moment we'll see how we go and if that has no success we'll move on to
00:25:47the next drive modes and i've also got the terrain monitor there as well so you can see where it's
00:25:53sending torque whether it's the front or the rear axle okay so about 10 k's an hour gradual throttle
00:25:59sorry all right oh go go go that is flat to the board
00:26:07okay no success there in eco i'm going to try one of the um four wheel drive modes four wheel drive
00:26:20sorry the terrain modes i know this is not a four wheel drive just to force a habit um so i'll stick
00:26:25it in uh probably mud we'll see how we go there um all right so again 10 k's an hour constant throttle
00:26:32here we go okay it has pinned to the board now
00:26:40making a little bit of progress there
00:26:46let's see what it does a bit of steering input
00:26:52no i can hear it doing stuff but it's just not making any progress up the hill here we're basically
00:27:00just stationary here so i'll go back down i'll try um i'll try turning traction control off just to
00:27:08see if that gives us any more ability um actually you know i'll try one of the other four drive modes
00:27:13let's try sand we'll just see if that makes any difference okay 10 k's an hour
00:27:19oh it's not even getting us to the first one here
00:27:24no it's getting us a little bit further there
00:27:27all right that's flat to the board now
00:27:30go
00:27:31nuts not liking that either
00:27:37no all right last mode we'll try before i try turning traction control off is
00:27:45what else do we have there uh snow give that a shot
00:27:48all righty here we go
00:27:51all right likes that even less
00:27:56it sort of kills motion nice and early but it then starts progressing a little bit more there
00:28:02so i've now got that pinned to the board one more time a little bit of progress there
00:28:06just not letting us move any further than that so
00:28:14no nothing all right so what we'll try now is just back into mud which seemed to be the most
00:28:20progressive mode there and i'll turn traction control off and just see if that makes
00:28:25any difference all right that's traction off let's see how that goes
00:28:29oh that's not really helping us much there i do wonder with these uh terrain modes whether it is
00:28:41actually sort of still leaving traction control on even when it is switched off because i can hear it
00:28:47doing stuff in the background so um no no luck there so um let me look at what our judges say about
00:28:55how far it made it up but um yeah i don't know it just just didn't really have that progress and i
00:29:01wonder whether that is something to do with the hybrid system that's affecting its ability to get
00:29:05up there but you know no matter what i tried there it just wasn't keen to get any further which is
00:29:10disappointing because i it felt good to start with but then it just really just slowed down and didn't
00:29:14want to work so verdict is in only made it to cone one unfortunately for the kia sportage
00:29:19so six five let's see how this goes this has a proper drive line down the center here
00:29:25um just under 200 mil ground clearance which is pretty decent okay no fancy uh hybrid systems or
00:29:34anything like that it's really struggling to get over literally the the tiny part of this come on
00:29:41all right there it is around there somewhere
00:29:44okay okay good but it feels nice and solid head over to the rollers
00:29:51six five actually has an off-road mode so i'll try that in just a second
00:29:58if we have any dramas here at all with our front wheel drive test so there it is there
00:30:04okay i'm going to roll onto the throttle
00:30:06oh it's struggling
00:30:10yeah it's really struggling starting to get there
00:30:16all right got there in the end but um really was a bit of a struggle it rolled back quite a bit
00:30:24before it engaged so that's a pass let's go back and try the rear wheels now
00:30:29okie dokie line this up
00:30:32okay now the brakes working which is good some of the suvs we've been testing here
00:30:39once we get the three wheels on the rollers they won't hold the vehicle in place but this is working
00:30:44which is good i'll roll onto that throttle
00:30:47no we're basically catching on catching on the the bits either side so that's a no i'm going to try put
00:30:57it into its off-road mode just to see if that makes any difference it should tell the car then that
00:31:02we need traction on that rear so put that down into off-road okay let's engage give that one more shot
00:31:10okay front wheels on the rollers hold that there and then onto the throttle
00:31:18no it's letting it rev up which is interesting but
00:31:23it's not giving us the the drive that we need on the rear axle so it's a pass for the front wheel
00:31:31and a fail for the rear wheel now we will try our hill in normal mode first just to see how it goes
00:31:38and then we can progress up through the other modes so a constant throttle about 10 k's an hour
00:31:44oh that is so bad didn't even make it to the first cone all right let's just assume that is
00:31:52just normal mode being funny so i'm going to put this into off-road mode now let's see what happens
00:31:58it actually lifts the revs up a little bit which which is um interesting okay oh that's feeling better
00:32:06this is interesting this is a slightly more old school system but it's letting the wheels spin up
00:32:15wow have a look at this it's going to stay in that oh nice go don't fail me now i'm just buried on
00:32:25the throttle here and we're slowing down come on come on go a little bit more
00:32:29yes well there you go that off-road mode is unbelievably good didn't really do much on
00:32:38the rollers over there for getting traction on the rear wheels but right there it made all the
00:32:42difference it really helped this climb up and scurry up the hill without any dramas so
00:32:46yeah that is unreal just shows you good traction control system coupled with
00:32:51a proper decent all-wheel drive system and you're off to the races like that so that is unreal good job
00:32:57now cx60 uh six cylinder so a meaty old engine biggest of the group here also has the biggest
00:33:06wheelbase as well so we'll see how that affects things uh this uses mazda's in-house eight speed
00:33:12automatic transmission that i'm not a huge fan of so let's see how it all fares so uh flex test first
00:33:18also fairly low ground clearance too so you can hear it uh sort of bottoming out there a little bit
00:33:23okay it's gonna be a bit tricky to actually get this into a flex condition but that's about it
00:33:29there yep that closes fine so that's all good work our way over to the rollers
00:33:36there is an off-road mode available here if it fails our front wheel test so there's the front active
00:33:47roll onto the throttle
00:33:49that's a definitely a fail um try that with off-road mode running um yeah it just did not hook up there
00:34:01at all okay so pop that down into off-road mode okay that is on give the fronts one more shot or the
00:34:09front one more shot keep forgetting it's one wheel drive um okay that's it there so roll onto the throttle
00:34:16yeah that's a definite no that's disappointing i mean it's yeah i'm just showing you that um
00:34:32well it is actually an interesting point as well that i'll make now that this platform
00:34:36mazda inherently designed as rear wheel drive first front well front axle second so perhaps it's going to
00:34:43work better here as rear because this is the exception to the rule with the rest of the cars
00:34:47that we have here so we'll try the rears now just for the rear and we'll just see if that makes any
00:34:52difference okay so the front on the roller there kind of brakes holding us roll onto the throttle
00:34:58see it's interesting it's it's actually making a bit more progress here with the rear
00:35:08than it was previously but still not there we go now all four on rollers so this this one here is
00:35:16a bit of a reverse test so it's basically a fail for the front but a pass for the rear whereas most
00:35:22of them are a pass for the front and a for the rear so there you go so as the only sort of rear
00:35:30rear drive car here let's see how this goes so i'm going to start off just in normal mode and then
00:35:35i'll migrate to off-road mode if we don't have any success all right it's slowly slowly getting
00:35:45there here in normal mode
00:35:47i like there all right come back and i'll switch us into off-road mode let's see how that goes
00:35:59okay we are in off-road mode now let's give that another shot
00:36:03okay so climb again constant throttle
00:36:09oh i feel it grabbing i feel it grabbing go go go go stay in that see it's allowing it to rev up
00:36:21look at that oh that is unreal it's allowing it to rev up and when it revs up
00:36:27it just climbs like it is remarkable how good just a decent traction control system will help
00:36:34you out here and i wonder also whether the fact that this has that rear bias is helping it climb
00:36:39up there but certainly the difference there between normal and off-road mode is huge it definitely
00:36:44tailors it to allowing it to have more wheels slip and to climb even on road tires that is a pretty
00:36:50impressive effort so yeah good job with uh for master
00:36:53outlander time so just something worth pointing out this is a pre-production car this has just been
00:36:59updated and this is a pre-production car so some of the stuff you see here won't be production spec but
00:37:04we're told the drivetrain and stuff is so this is the naturally aspirated four-cylinder it's not the
00:37:10plug-in hybrid so see how it goes with our first test here reasonable ground clearance though
00:37:15just over 200 mil so pretty decent for for this segment
00:37:18get the kick up a wheel just there all righty let's see what that rigidity is like
00:37:24yep very good typically mitsubishi has their off-road stuff pretty well honed so
00:37:30quietly confident this should actually do pretty well this is predominantly a front-wheel drive
00:37:35car that activates the rear axle as required so let's see how it fares here
00:37:41all right so roll onto that throttle nope
00:37:48nope not a scary of that there so there are a few drive modes here so i'm just going to try
00:37:56flicking it into one of these other drive modes we've got tarmac gravel snow mud i'll try gravel just
00:38:03because it kind of might simulate a gravel surface let's see what that feels like okie dokie here we go
00:38:10roll onto that
00:38:12doing stuff but yeah there we go
00:38:16nice got there in the end it just needed to figure itself out but gravel mode for the win there for
00:38:26that front traction scenario i'll keep it in gravel mode to see what it does with just one rear wheel
00:38:33with traction
00:38:34okay there it is it it's not holding us my foot is flat on the brake there all right here we go
00:38:41yep i think we're getting somewhere
00:38:46no no bingo give that one more shot might try different drive mode here let's try mud maybe see how that works
00:39:08okay stop it there
00:39:12no not liking it at all
00:39:19no nothing all right so that's a pass for front but a fail for rear
00:39:27so i'm going to just start in normal mode i've also got the super all wheel control
00:39:32active there in front of us we'll see if that gives us anything interesting as we go and then
00:39:38if normal mode doesn't work i'll uh make my way through the other settings yeah that is
00:39:42definitely a not going to work mode um okay so
00:39:47let's try try gravel first because that's technically what this is it's always hard to
00:39:54pick which drive mode is suitable for which scenario
00:39:57okay
00:40:00that's the tow bar
00:40:04got my foot stuck in that
00:40:08not getting anywhere though so we're gonna have to back down
00:40:17oh that's the worst noise
00:40:21um all righty so i'll just advance forward to one of the other drive modes
00:40:28try what do we got there snow give it a shot
00:40:32see how that fares
00:40:34same sort of thing it's not loving that
00:40:43got my foot right through the firewall there
00:40:49not getting us anywhere all right there's one last drive mode we can try and then we'll try
00:40:55switching traction control off as well
00:40:57okie dokie
00:41:00so last drive mode is mud we'll see if that helps us at all
00:41:06sharpens the throttle right up there that was interesting
00:41:08okay
00:41:09giving us a bit more wheels to slip
00:41:12what it's getting us a little bit further
00:41:13have a look at that
00:41:14come on come on i think we're gonna make this
00:41:22that is unreal this drive mode has transformed the car
00:41:27holy crap that is so cool
00:41:29yeah this stuff just it really blows me away to think that a car that is on road tires can make it up there
00:41:36with just twisting this thing just changes the drive mode and all of a sudden it's capable of making it up there so
00:41:42yeah look Mitsubishi like I said traditionally they've had all-wheel drive systems in their cars that are really rated to off-road driving
00:41:50and we found that certainly with previous generation of Triton that it could really go anywhere especially here when we did our big
00:41:56ute mega test it just went anywhere and it was very capable of doing things
00:42:00and it seems they've followed on that tradition here with Outlander it's a bit weird that
00:42:04it didn't work over on the rollers for the rear drive mode I did try all of those settings there but
00:42:09didn't seem to make much of a difference so
00:42:11yeah not sure what the go is with that but just shows you that selecting the right mode for these things
00:42:17gets it through
00:42:18okay X-Trail is interesting because it uses two electric motors one on the front axle one on the rear axle and a three-cylinder engine
00:42:26so there is no drive line down the center there so it'll be interesting to see how this fares
00:42:31not a huge amount of ground clearance either under 190 mils so
00:42:35door flex and I'll move on to the other stuff
00:42:38okay there it is there
00:42:41it's catching a little bit there
00:42:48I can still close the door but I can feel
00:42:52that it's um sorry I'll stop that annoying beeping
00:42:55um yeah I can feel that it's catching
00:42:57yeah you can feel it rubbing on the way in there so
00:43:01yeah that's a little bit disappointing um it's sort of still a pass the door closes but
00:43:05I don't know maybe we deduct a point or two there because it is actually catching and the others weren't so
00:43:11yeah
00:43:11now I don't know how this is gonna fare having two electric motors basically I mean for the purposes of
00:43:18traction this is effectively just an electric vehicle so
00:43:22alrighty let's see how it goes just in the normal drive mode here
00:43:26roll on to that
00:43:27just had a system fault come up here
00:43:35um yeah that's not good
00:43:38definitely a fail as well so I'm gonna come out of that
00:43:42um okay that system fault is still there
00:43:46I'm just gonna try the rear now to see if that does anything
00:43:51and we might just try um restarting the car as well just to clear that fault
00:43:56okay
00:43:58okay fault seems to have disappeared
00:44:06it starts raining out there okay I'm gonna roll onto the throttle now
00:44:16it's sort of creeping a little bit there but it's not getting us what we need
00:44:24oh I can feel it doing stuff it's just not getting us what we need so let me just try a different drive mode there
00:44:34we'll see if that makes any difference for us
00:44:38alright what do we got here
00:44:40we have eco no don't need that
00:44:42don't need that
00:44:44let's try
00:44:45off-road
00:44:46let's see how that works
00:44:47for the rear drive
00:44:50okay on that roller
00:44:54roll onto the throttle
00:44:55you know what it's sort of working
00:45:04yeah it's sort of working there in in off-road I'm just going to try uh front wheel one more time here
00:45:11in off-road
00:45:13give that one more crack
00:45:15okay there it is there
00:45:20and roll into the throttle
00:45:22there you go that's actually working
00:45:26alright so
00:45:27yeah again I don't know what that system fault was but
00:45:30you know eventually it passed in front and rear
00:45:34so sort of a pass but again we're going to deduct a couple of points there because it came up with warnings
00:45:39so yeah
00:45:40we'll kick off uh in normal mode
00:45:43see how we go and then I'll work my way through the drive modes
00:45:47normal mode doesn't even make it to the first cone
00:45:55um okay so let's try off-road mode
00:46:00that is active let's see how that performs compared to normal mode
00:46:06yeah look it's pulsing it up here gradually
00:46:14I've got my foot flat on the board there that's the kick down I just heard the internal combustion engine come on there
00:46:23to give this a little added pep
00:46:26but we're not getting any further than this
00:46:29it's sort of flaring up a little bit and giving it a bit more motion
00:46:33oh
00:46:33hang on a tiny bit there but
00:46:35no luck
00:46:37um alright let me try one of these other drive modes
00:46:39we have another
00:46:40off-road focus drive mode available to us
00:46:43so
00:46:44what have we got here
00:46:45we've got snow mode
00:46:48we'll give that a shot and then I'll go back to off-road
00:46:50with uh traction control off
00:46:52and see if that makes any difference
00:46:54oh snow mode is um positively not very good
00:46:59so why don't bother with that
00:47:01I'll stick it in off-road mode and try turning traction control off
00:47:05see if that makes any difference
00:47:07that's what it's
00:47:08ESP
00:47:10off
00:47:12okay here we go
00:47:15so off-road ESP off
00:47:17let's see if that makes any difference for us
00:47:20I can still feel it
00:47:24biting which is interesting
00:47:26go go go go go
00:47:32so I'm doing a similar thing to the BYD Shark
00:47:37and
00:47:38where it just sort of flares up
00:47:40and it doesn't have a great deal of control over its
00:47:43traction
00:47:44like it is just pulsing forward bit by bit
00:47:46hold on
00:47:47I've got something there
00:47:48oh come on
00:47:51come on come on
00:47:51come on
00:47:52come on
00:47:54it's so close
00:47:55oh
00:47:56no
00:48:00no
00:48:02it just sounds like a
00:48:04a lion growling
00:48:05we'll see without judges how far it got
00:48:08um
00:48:09did that
00:48:10make it up to the third
00:48:12okay so between second and third
00:48:14so
00:48:14all right well there you go
00:48:15that is the Nissan X-Trail
00:48:17uh
00:48:18e-power
00:48:18close but no cigar
00:48:20almost got there but
00:48:21I just needed a little more helping of
00:48:23I don't know just better traction or something
00:48:26but um
00:48:26yeah it was definitely working for it
00:48:28now this car you may not have heard of before
00:48:30it's the KGM Torres
00:48:32company's changed its name quite a few times recently
00:48:34but
00:48:35the bones of it is that
00:48:36uh
00:48:37Sang Yong or former Sang Yong
00:48:38used to actually build a fair bit of off-road capable stuff
00:48:41so
00:48:42see what this is like
00:48:43this has a four-wheel drive badge on it
00:48:46so we'll see how that goes
00:48:47get it up here for our
00:48:51door slam test
00:48:52all right
00:48:53let's flex on that
00:48:54oh that's not good
00:48:56yep
00:48:58that's like a hard
00:49:02hard hit to the point where it's actually not closing the door
00:49:06so that is a fail on the door slam test for uh body rigidity
00:49:12this does have an all-wheel drive lock button
00:49:15so what I'll try and do is just first try it without that active
00:49:19see how that goes
00:49:20and if we don't have any luck then I'll switch it on
00:49:22all right rolling onto the throttle
00:49:24yep
00:49:30okay so
00:49:30that is
00:49:33that is a fail there
00:49:34so I'll just back this up
00:49:35I'll switch the all-wheel drive lock on
00:49:38I'll give that one more shot
00:49:41so basically just pull down here
00:49:44all-wheel drive lock
00:49:45all right that is on
00:49:46give that one more crack
00:49:49okay here we go
00:49:55makes literally no difference at all
00:50:01that's disappointing
00:50:03all right so that's a fail for front
00:50:04let's just try rear now as well
00:50:06let's see if that does anything
00:50:08I'd be surprised if it did but
00:50:11anyway all right
00:50:13here we go
00:50:14okay that's fronts on the rollers
00:50:19here we go
00:50:20roll onto the throttle
00:50:21no
00:50:24nope
00:50:28yep that is a fail for both front and rear
00:50:32not going good so far
00:50:33let me tell you
00:50:34so first up what I'll do here is
00:50:37try going without
00:50:38the all-wheel drive lock running
00:50:41I'll just see if there's a miracle there
00:50:43that helps it get up
00:50:44it's actually not doing too terribly
00:50:51sort of
00:50:56that's as far as that'll go
00:50:58it is flashing an engine light there
00:51:00I don't know what that is about
00:51:02it was flashing in unison with
00:51:03the traction control
00:51:07so I'll just try to put the all-wheel drive lock button on
00:51:10we'll just give that a shot
00:51:12none of that works
00:51:14I'm gonna try power cycling it as the rain starts
00:51:16okay so all-wheel drive lock is active
00:51:20give that one more crack
00:51:22here we go
00:51:23funny the all-wheel drive lock is actually making it do
00:51:30way worse than it was when it was off
00:51:33now I'm gonna try power cycling it
00:51:35just to see if that engine light flashing thing goes away
00:51:38give that a shot
00:51:41all right
00:51:42okay so that's power cycles
00:51:46engine light is still flashing
00:51:49so anyway I think there was a fail regardless of any of that
00:51:53but I also don't want to break the car any more than it already is if that's flashing
00:51:58so that is a pretty disappointing result for the Torres
00:52:02I'm excited for this the Subaru Forester was the reigning champ of our last test
00:52:07it was kind of a go anywhere thing
00:52:09it's a hybrid it was a hybrid for a little bit
00:52:12and it was the worst hybrid I've ever tested
00:52:14this though is completely different
00:52:16still got a boxer engine
00:52:17driveline that runs down the center
00:52:18electric motors
00:52:20so it is like a proper setup
00:52:22so we'll see whether it still retains its off-road ability
00:52:24220 mil of ground clearance
00:52:26so it's the most off-road capable here in terms of ground clearance
00:52:30we'll kick that rear wheel up
00:52:32see what the body strength is like
00:52:34perfect no dramas there
00:52:37let's head over to the rollers
00:52:38there's a few different X modes here for us to choose from
00:52:46then a couple of drive modes as well
00:52:47so I'll just keep it in normal mode just for the moment
00:52:49see how it goes on the front test first
00:52:53okay that's it there
00:52:55roll onto the throttle
00:52:56not good at all there for the front test
00:53:05so I'm going to pop it into
00:53:08let's put it in snow dirt for the X mode
00:53:13give that one more shot
00:53:14bring that up to the top
00:53:17okay there it is there
00:53:19roll onto the throttle
00:53:20oh that's terrible
00:53:27that is not very good at all
00:53:29okay
00:53:29try the next X mode
00:53:32which is deep snow mud
00:53:34give that a crack
00:53:36okay
00:53:37that is now on
00:53:39button up to the top
00:53:41okay there it is there
00:53:45roll onto the throttle
00:53:46that's better
00:53:49that engage
00:53:51straight away there
00:53:52no dramas at all
00:53:53so deep snow mud
00:53:55it's the mode
00:53:57it needs to be in to achieve that
00:53:59so we'll go back
00:53:59give it another shot
00:54:00for the rear axle
00:54:01and see how that performs
00:54:02alrighty
00:54:04let's line it up
00:54:05okay there it is there
00:54:10and roll onto the throttle
00:54:12that's not liking that
00:54:17nope
00:54:25nope
00:54:26okay
00:54:26let's just try
00:54:28different drive mode here
00:54:31okay
00:54:31just try snow dirt
00:54:33see if that makes any difference
00:54:35okay
00:54:39that's on the roller
00:54:40roll onto the throttle
00:54:42nope
00:54:47nothing there
00:54:50last thing I'm going to try
00:54:51is just the sport mode
00:54:52see if that makes any difference
00:54:57at all
00:54:57we're going to have
00:55:00normal active for that
00:55:02okay
00:55:02sport is on
00:55:04okay
00:55:08roll onto the throttle
00:55:09nope
00:55:11pretty disappointing
00:55:15that it's
00:55:16not
00:55:17not even getting us
00:55:19to the point there
00:55:19where the rear tyres
00:55:21are pushing the vehicle forward
00:55:22so
00:55:23yeah I don't know
00:55:24a bit disappointed
00:55:25by this system
00:55:26I was hoping it would be
00:55:27as good as the last one
00:55:28but it seems
00:55:29the second they've tried
00:55:30to hybridise this
00:55:31it has just complicated
00:55:32things a bit
00:55:32so
00:55:33pass for the front
00:55:34even that was a bit of a stretch
00:55:35and a fail for the rear
00:55:37so
00:55:37normal mode to begin with
00:55:39and then I'll start playing
00:55:40with some of these
00:55:41X modes
00:55:42as required
00:55:43oh
00:55:45okay
00:55:49that's
00:55:50terrible
00:55:51alright
00:55:51I'll try
00:55:52snow
00:55:54dirt
00:55:55see how that goes
00:55:57I didn't even make it
00:55:59anywhere near the first cone
00:56:02what the hell
00:56:04this is
00:56:09really average
00:56:10what is going on here
00:56:16oh that is
00:56:21that is terrible
00:56:22alright
00:56:23I'll stick it into
00:56:25deep snow mud
00:56:27which is what worked
00:56:27before
00:56:28yeah
00:56:33okay
00:56:33alright
00:56:33give this a shot
00:56:34see how this goes
00:56:37oh
00:56:41come on
00:56:42I mean
00:56:42seriously
00:56:43this was
00:56:45the
00:56:45the champ
00:56:46last time
00:56:46and it is
00:56:47really struggling
00:56:48now
00:56:48alright
00:56:48I'm getting a little bit
00:56:49further here
00:56:49in deep snow
00:56:50mud
00:56:51I'm now pinned
00:56:52to the board
00:56:52rotate that
00:56:59wheel a bit
00:57:00there is just
00:57:03nada
00:57:03happening here
00:57:04this is
00:57:09genuinely
00:57:09disappointing
00:57:10alright
00:57:10this will go back
00:57:12down
00:57:12and
00:57:13what will I do
00:57:14now
00:57:15I'll try
00:57:16switching
00:57:17traction control
00:57:18off
00:57:18see if that
00:57:19makes any
00:57:19difference
00:57:20but
00:57:20this is
00:57:23very
00:57:24very
00:57:24average
00:57:24alright
00:57:25so
00:57:26switch that
00:57:27off
00:57:27you see
00:57:30I can't
00:57:31even switch
00:57:31that off
00:57:32when
00:57:33X mode
00:57:33is on
00:57:34so I'll
00:57:34just try
00:57:34normal
00:57:35mode
00:57:35with
00:57:35vehicle
00:57:35dynamics
00:57:36control
00:57:36off
00:57:37if that
00:57:39makes
00:57:40any
00:57:40difference
00:57:40wow
00:57:47okay
00:57:47that
00:57:48is
00:57:48genuinely
00:57:50an epic
00:57:51fail
00:57:51they've
00:57:51taken
00:57:52what was
00:57:53an excellent
00:57:53car
00:57:54off-road
00:57:54and ruined
00:57:56it by
00:57:56hybridizing
00:57:57it
00:57:57and
00:57:58just not
00:57:58focusing on
00:57:59what this
00:58:00was
00:58:00you know
00:58:01what was
00:58:01the previous
00:58:02strength of
00:58:02this car
00:58:03which was
00:58:03off-road
00:58:03driving
00:58:04they've
00:58:04just
00:58:04made it
00:58:04made it
00:58:05not good
00:58:06at all
00:58:06off-road
00:58:07the fact
00:58:07that
00:58:08you know
00:58:08we got
00:58:08what was
00:58:09it
00:58:09the Tucson
00:58:09up here
00:58:10the CX5
00:58:12up here
00:58:12Tucson's
00:58:14hybridized
00:58:15as well
00:58:15so
00:58:15anyway
00:58:16that is
00:58:16massively
00:58:17disappointing
00:58:18there
00:58:18from
00:58:18Subaru
00:58:19with
00:58:19the
00:58:19new
00:58:19Forrester
00:58:19now
00:58:20we're
00:58:22in the
00:58:22rave
00:58:22four
00:58:22now
00:58:22but
00:58:23complication
00:58:24we've
00:58:25filmed
00:58:25this
00:58:25over
00:58:25two
00:58:26days
00:58:26because
00:58:26of
00:58:27the
00:58:27volume
00:58:27of
00:58:27cars
00:58:28that
00:58:28we
00:58:28have
00:58:28and
00:58:29it
00:58:29has
00:58:29bucketed
00:58:29down
00:58:30overnight
00:58:30so
00:58:30what
00:58:31we're
00:58:31going
00:58:31to
00:58:31do
00:58:32is
00:58:32continue
00:58:32on
00:58:33but
00:58:33at
00:58:33the
00:58:33end
00:58:34any
00:58:34cars
00:58:35that
00:58:35make
00:58:35it
00:58:35to
00:58:35the
00:58:36top
00:58:36and
00:58:36pass
00:58:37these
00:58:37tests
00:58:37we're
00:58:37going
00:58:38to
00:58:38repeat
00:58:38them
00:58:38again
00:58:39to
00:58:39make
00:58:39sure
00:58:40that
00:58:40the
00:58:40wet
00:58:41weather
00:58:41hasn't
00:58:41caused
00:58:42any
00:58:42issues
00:58:43it
00:58:43should
00:58:43be
00:58:43fine
00:58:43for
00:58:44the
00:58:44roller
00:58:44and
00:58:44the
00:58:44door
00:58:44test
00:58:45but
00:58:45more
00:58:45for
00:58:45the
00:58:46hill
00:58:46the
00:58:46hill
00:58:46is
00:58:47quite
00:58:47compact
00:58:47so
00:58:47it
00:58:47shouldn't
00:58:48be
00:58:48an
00:58:48issue
00:58:48but
00:58:48we'll
00:58:49do
00:58:49that
00:58:49at
00:58:49the
00:58:50end
00:58:50just
00:58:50in
00:58:50case
00:58:50okay
00:58:51so
00:58:51RAV4
00:58:52hybrid
00:58:52this
00:58:53actually
00:58:53was
00:58:54in
00:58:54our
00:58:54last
00:58:54test
00:58:55as
00:58:55well
00:58:55didn't
00:58:56perform
00:58:56that
00:58:56well
00:58:57because
00:58:57it
00:58:57doesn't
00:58:57have
00:58:58a
00:58:58drive
00:58:58line
00:58:58that
00:58:58runs
00:58:59down
00:58:59the
00:58:59centre
00:58:59it
00:58:59just
00:58:59has
00:59:00an
00:59:00electric
00:59:00motor
00:59:01on
00:59:02the
00:59:02rear
00:59:02axle
00:59:02and
00:59:03it
00:59:03just
00:59:03kept
00:59:04getting
00:59:04itself
00:59:04confused
00:59:05even
00:59:05in
00:59:05its
00:59:05trail
00:59:06mode
00:59:06you can
00:59:07see
00:59:07even
00:59:07right
00:59:07now
00:59:08it's
00:59:08struggling
00:59:08to
00:59:08get
00:59:08up
00:59:08here
00:59:09so
00:59:09give
00:59:09this
00:59:10a
00:59:10little
00:59:10run
00:59:10up
00:59:10okay
00:59:13which
00:59:13is
00:59:14around
00:59:15there
00:59:18somewhere
00:59:18is our
00:59:18flex
00:59:19so
00:59:19see
00:59:20how
00:59:20that
00:59:20goes
00:59:20nice
00:59:23no
00:59:24dramas
00:59:24there
00:59:24and
00:59:25obviously
00:59:25just as
00:59:26a
00:59:26reminder
00:59:26as
00:59:26well
00:59:26RAV4
00:59:27is
00:59:28about
00:59:28to
00:59:29get
00:59:29updated
00:59:30so
00:59:30there's
00:59:30a
00:59:30brand
00:59:31new
00:59:31version
00:59:31of
00:59:31this
00:59:31car
00:59:32coming
00:59:32and
00:59:32it's
00:59:32obviously
00:59:33the
00:59:33last
00:59:34of
00:59:35the
00:59:35hybrid
00:59:35RAV4
00:59:36in
00:59:36the
00:59:36edge
00:59:36trim
00:59:37which
00:59:37is
00:59:37the
00:59:37top
00:59:37spec
00:59:37so
00:59:38I
00:59:38mentioned
00:59:38before
00:59:39our
00:59:39RAV4
00:59:39this
00:59:40particular
00:59:40spec
00:59:40has
00:59:41an
00:59:41electric
00:59:41motor
00:59:41on
00:59:42the
00:59:42rear
00:59:42axle
00:59:42and
00:59:42two
00:59:43electric
00:59:43motors
00:59:43on
00:59:43the
00:59:43front
00:59:44axle
00:59:44so
00:59:45we'll
00:59:45see
00:59:45how
00:59:45it
00:59:45goes
00:59:45it
00:59:46did
00:59:46struggle
00:59:47last
00:59:47time
00:59:47but
00:59:47we
00:59:47didn't
00:59:48try
00:59:48it
00:59:48on
00:59:48the
00:59:48rollers
00:59:48previously
00:59:49so
00:59:49what it's
00:59:50like
00:59:51as
00:59:51a
00:59:52one
00:59:52wheel
00:59:53drive
00:59:53first
00:59:53on
00:59:53the
00:59:54front
00:59:54axle
00:59:54and
00:59:54then
00:59:54we'll
00:59:54try
00:59:55the
00:59:55others
00:59:55we've
00:59:56got a few
00:59:56different
00:59:56drive
00:59:56modes
00:59:57here
00:59:57to pick
00:59:57from
00:59:57as
00:59:57well
00:59:57so
00:59:58we'll
00:59:58see
00:59:58how
00:59:58they
00:59:58go
00:59:58bingo
01:00:05that's
01:00:09not a
01:00:09good
01:00:09start
01:00:10I
01:00:10would
01:00:10have
01:00:10thought
01:00:10at
01:00:10the
01:00:11very
01:00:11least
01:00:11this
01:00:12would
01:00:12have
01:00:12enough
01:00:13traction
01:00:13to
01:00:13get
01:00:13it
01:00:13past
01:00:13this
01:00:14I'll
01:00:14try
01:00:14trail
01:00:15mode
01:00:15which
01:00:16is
01:00:16like
01:00:16the
01:00:16off
01:00:16road
01:00:16mode
01:00:17see
01:00:17if
01:00:17that
01:00:18makes
01:00:18any
01:00:18difference
01:00:18there
01:00:19in
01:00:20this
01:00:20front
01:00:20drive
01:00:21configuration
01:00:22roll
01:00:24onto
01:00:24the
01:00:25throttle
01:00:25gee
01:00:31that is
01:00:32really
01:00:33not very
01:00:33good
01:00:34at all
01:00:34I
01:00:34would
01:00:34have
01:00:34thought
01:00:34it
01:00:35would
01:00:35be
01:00:36at
01:00:36least
01:00:36able
01:00:37to
01:00:37get
01:00:37up
01:00:38there
01:00:38so
01:00:38alright
01:00:39let's
01:00:39try
01:00:40the
01:00:40rear
01:00:41drive
01:00:41configuration
01:00:42see if
01:00:43that
01:00:43makes
01:00:43any
01:00:43difference
01:00:43given
01:00:44it
01:00:44has
01:00:44an
01:00:44electric
01:00:44motor
01:00:45on
01:00:45that
01:00:45rear
01:00:45axle
01:00:46surely
01:00:47that
01:00:47would
01:00:47be
01:00:47enough
01:00:48for
01:00:48it
01:00:48to
01:00:48work
01:00:49its
01:00:49way
01:00:49through
01:00:50alright
01:00:50so
01:00:50we're
01:00:51on
01:00:51that
01:00:51here
01:00:51we
01:00:51go
01:00:52it
01:01:01barely
01:01:02barely
01:01:02grabbing
01:01:02there
01:01:03at
01:01:03all
01:01:03might
01:01:04try
01:01:04sport
01:01:05mode
01:01:05as
01:01:05well
01:01:05just
01:01:06to
01:01:06be
01:01:06on
01:01:06the
01:01:06safe
01:01:07side
01:01:07here
01:01:07here
01:01:10we
01:01:15go
01:01:15disappointing
01:01:44alright
01:01:44it
01:01:44is
01:01:44a
01:01:44fail
01:01:45for
01:01:46the
01:01:46front
01:01:47drive
01:01:47and
01:01:47the
01:01:48rear
01:01:48drive
01:01:48configuration
01:01:49for
01:01:49RAV4
01:01:50hybrid
01:01:50now
01:01:51mentioned
01:01:52before
01:01:52it is
01:01:53significantly
01:01:54wetter
01:01:55down here
01:01:55at the
01:01:55moment
01:01:55so
01:01:56we'll see
01:01:56how we
01:01:56go
01:01:57I've
01:01:57just
01:01:57left
01:01:58it
01:01:58in
01:01:59just
01:01:59the
01:01:59normal
01:01:59drive
01:02:00mode
01:02:00and
01:02:01then
01:02:01we'll
01:02:01progress
01:02:02through
01:02:02to
01:02:02trail
01:02:03mode
01:02:03if
01:02:04it
01:02:04doesn't
01:02:05have
01:02:05any
01:02:05luck
01:02:05here
01:02:05but
01:02:06the
01:02:06hill
01:02:06itself
01:02:06is
01:02:06actually
01:02:07in
01:02:07reasonable
01:02:08condition
01:02:08getting
01:02:11up
01:02:11the
01:02:12first
01:02:12part
01:02:12of
01:02:12the
01:02:13hill
01:02:13so
01:02:13let's
01:02:15try
01:02:15and get
01:02:15this
01:02:15into
01:02:16trail
01:02:16mode
01:02:17there's
01:02:18trail
01:02:18mode
01:02:19active
01:02:19let's
01:02:19give
01:02:19that
01:02:20a
01:02:20shot
01:02:20go
01:02:29go
01:02:29go
01:02:30trail
01:02:32and
01:02:34it's
01:02:35not
01:02:35liking
01:02:35that
01:02:35it's
01:02:35doing
01:02:36pretty
01:02:36much
01:02:36exactly
01:02:36what
01:02:37it
01:02:37did
01:02:37the
01:02:38last
01:02:38time
01:02:39we
01:02:39tested
01:02:39this
01:02:39where
01:02:40the
01:02:40tires
01:02:40just
01:02:41spin
01:02:41up
01:02:41and
01:02:41you
01:02:41don't
01:02:42actually
01:02:42get
01:02:42anywhere
01:02:43so
01:02:43as
01:02:44trail
01:02:44mode
01:02:44running
01:02:44I'll
01:02:45try
01:02:45sport
01:02:46and
01:02:46trail
01:02:47mode
01:02:47doesn't
01:02:47seem
01:02:47to
01:02:47make
01:02:48much
01:02:48of
01:02:48a
01:02:48difference
01:02:48I'll
01:02:49try
01:02:50turning
01:02:50traction
01:02:50control
01:02:51off
01:02:52see
01:02:52if
01:02:52that
01:02:52makes
01:02:53any
01:02:54difference
01:02:55at
01:02:55all
01:02:55here
01:02:56we
01:02:56go
01:02:56trail
01:02:57mode
01:02:57again
01:03:00didn't make any difference so um all right that is that is a big old fail here for the rav4 pretty
01:03:10disappointing um given that i don't know this should be able to do this basic light off-roading
01:03:15stuff and yes it is wetter than it was before but the other suvs are able to get up here and this
01:03:21just fails the same way that it did the first time we tested this where there's just not enough
01:03:26calibration between the front the rear axles for it to actually get up and do the things that it
01:03:30needs to do now time to give the all-new tiguan a shot uh last time we had this car in our comparison
01:03:37it actually did pretty well uh it was i think it was the r-line from memory so it had this body kit
01:03:43and it was getting bashed about a little bit but actually did a surprisingly good job so this time
01:03:48around two-liter turbo all-wheel drive dual clutch which i don't know how that'll go on the hill but
01:03:53we'll cross that bridge when we get to a fairly low ground clearance as well so do our door flex test
01:03:59first okay so probably just back a touch there
01:04:04forward a touch
01:04:08yeah beach i'll give that one more shot okay
01:04:13around there somewhere all right let's have a look nice no dramas there
01:04:20in order to the rollers
01:04:22okay so rollers um this is a more traditional or wheel drive system so front wheel drive most of
01:04:30the time and then can engage uh rear axle as required so we'll get the uh front test done first
01:04:37pretty well established uh suv brand volkswagen so we'll see how this goes roll onto this
01:04:45okay
01:04:47did not like that at all
01:04:53okay so i didn't like that at all so what we'll do this time uh i'll put it into
01:05:00its off-road mode we'll see if that makes
01:05:02any difference so i'm going to the mode hit off-road
01:05:07so look at what that says uh okay so the all-wheel drive system engages much sooner and more frequently
01:05:17than with other profiles so if that makes any difference for us but given that it is predominantly
01:05:22front-wheel drive i don't know why that wouldn't have engaged earlier so here we go that's holding
01:05:28roll into the throttle that's better nice it's engaged and we are away so no dramas there at all
01:05:38excellent uh okay let's give that another shot but for the rear wheel
01:05:42line this rear wheel up
01:05:44around there somewhere okay here we go
01:05:50roll onto that
01:05:51oh that's working wow there you go that is exactly how it needs to work so obviously with
01:06:01all four wheels on the rollers we're not going to go anywhere but it actually sent drive to the only
01:06:05rear wheel with traction there so that is really impressive shows you that off-road mode is able to
01:06:10cater for all those conditions so that is a pass for front and rear drive as well
01:06:15all righty uh we're gonna go straight into off-road mode okay that is engaged let's see how we go
01:06:25dual clutch having to kick back
01:06:35coming up with a couple of warnings there
01:06:41dual clutch was being funny just before as well so i might just come back and have another crack at
01:06:48that yeah it's kind of kicking back a gear and then sort of going again so give that one more shot
01:06:55and just see how it goes
01:06:57nah it's sort of
01:07:03it's just sort of kicking back
01:07:07and being quite aggressive but not actually getting any progress forward so
01:07:13uh one other thing i might try here is just uh without four-wheel drive mode
01:07:19um i'll actually see if i can switch traction control off see if that helps at all
01:07:24uh okay so esc off
01:07:28right give that a shot see if that makes any difference there
01:07:37yeah this um this dual clutch is just constantly just shunting us on and off it doesn't feel very
01:07:47comfortable at all so i think that uh yeah dual clutches just for off-road stuff just do not work
01:07:54so you can see there over on the rollers it worked well it was able to apportion talk and do what it
01:07:58needed to do but in situations like this where it needs to keep having nibbles at it it kind of has to
01:08:03increase revs and engage a gear and each time it does that it has that clunking feeling and it really
01:08:07is not the best thing in the world so obviously it doesn't really work well here in this uh light
01:08:12off-road setting so um yeah a little bit disappointing but um i guess it is what it is
01:08:16okay moving on to skoda karok uh so this is the obviously all-wheel drive version uh dual clutch
01:08:24two liter turbocharged petrol so uh similar to other volkswagen group products predominantly front-wheel drive
01:08:30engages rear axle as required it's got an off-road mode as well so uh let's see how we go here with
01:08:36the door flex test first it's on the a shorter wheelbase here and doesn't have a huge amount of
01:08:41ground clearance so let's see how that sort of fares once we get it up
01:08:46nice no problems there kick this over the edge and we'll head over to the rollers
01:08:53okay roller time so i've got a few drive modes including an off-road mode so
01:08:59we'll try it first just without any of that engaged and see how we go
01:09:05roll onto the throttle
01:09:08yeah i can feel that biting this is just in normal mode as well very nice
01:09:14so it did exactly what you would expect a front-wheel drive car to do which is
01:09:19engage the front axle and move forward so basically there is a one-wheel drive front-wheel drive car
01:09:25it um it did what it should do so let's see if we can repeat that feat uh with the rear wheel active
01:09:31all righty so line this up
01:09:35okie dokie there we are there
01:09:40roll onto that
01:09:42i can feel it doing stuff wow that's cool there you go
01:09:49that is amazing so
01:09:55this is the only car so far that has actually managed to get itself up
01:10:01the entire thing even when it had all four wheels on the rollers
01:10:07that is remarkable surely that deserves bonus points
01:10:13that is amazing that's just in normal mode
01:10:16far out that is so impressive
01:10:18so cool
01:10:19okie dokie uh let's pop this straight into
01:10:22off-road mode
01:10:24that is engaged and we will see how we go
01:10:28all righty so there it is there lean onto the throttle keep it
01:10:33constant
01:10:34what a great shame it showed promise earlier on the rollers and then
01:10:41the dual clutch is doing dual clutch things here so
01:10:45not even getting past this first little bit
01:10:48flat to the board there and it's not getting anywhere
01:10:56that's disappointing
01:10:58all right um
01:11:00what do we try it
01:11:02because i'll pop it back into normal mode given that's what
01:11:04we did the rollers with
01:11:05um okay so that is normal mode
01:11:09give that a shot
01:11:10no no bingo it's this dual clutch doing dual clutch things so you can see there
01:11:19with our taco
01:11:20um it basically climbs uh it tries to think about getting the next gear drops and
01:11:25then climbs again and every time it flares up when it's engaging that clutch
01:11:30it's basically just flaring and just spinning up
01:11:33so unfortunately it's just not helping it actually get anywhere here which is
01:11:37disappointing because it showed some real promise there on the rollers but
01:11:41yeah here it's just sort of digging holes it's really not getting anywhere so
01:11:45um yeah as a reminder we've um sort of in between these runs we've been making
01:11:49sure that the cars that
01:11:50got up earlier uh when it wasn't as wet are still able to get up and they're all
01:11:55getting over that perfectly fine so
01:11:57um just shows you that the dual clutch here really is slowing down the progress of
01:12:01some of these cars so have all h6 this is a fascinating one because it's the plug-in
01:12:08hybrid so you've got internal combustion engine two electric motors but no drive
01:12:12line down the middle and still you've got a big battery beneath there so
01:12:15these have struggled in the past when you're just trying to run everything
01:12:18through electric motors so it'll be interesting to see how this goes ground
01:12:22clearance also isn't amazing either so
01:12:24uh we'll do a door flex test
01:12:26this up here
01:12:28all right
01:12:30all righty that is a pass for the door flex
01:12:35went over to the rollers
01:12:39i've got a number of drive modes here to pick from so we'll start off with normal
01:12:44and see how that goes for the front wheel test
01:12:46and then we'll work our way through the others and
01:12:49see if we can okie dokie so roll onto the throttle
01:12:53and it's struggling there it's sort of thinking about it
01:13:03we got there in the end
01:13:06yeah we got there in the end all right okay so the harder test given this has an
01:13:12electric motor on the rear axle it should be fine but um let's see what
01:13:16happens
01:13:17okay we'll hold it there whoop i've got my foot flat on the brake
01:13:21rolling backwards so
01:13:23it's not liking that
01:13:29at all
01:13:30okay so
01:13:32what we'll do
01:13:33come back i'll change the drive mode there is
01:13:36an all-wheel drive drive mode which
01:13:38i believe
01:13:39sort of then makes this into
01:13:41an all-wheel drive so we'll give that a
01:13:43crack
01:13:44all right so i've engaged that all-wheel drive mode is on let's give that a shot
01:13:49let's see if that makes a difference
01:13:54well it's not holding it there
01:13:56get all the throttle
01:13:58same thing again it appears
01:14:05a little bit of forward progress there but it's not confidently retaining that
01:14:12yeah it's not confidently retaining that at all it's sort of just coming onto that and then and then falling off
01:14:22one other thing i might try it does have an off-road mode so i'll give that a crack now and see if that makes any difference
01:14:28um so it's got a number of off-road modes but we'll pick uh maybe mud
01:14:33let's see how that goes
01:14:35let's see if it's more willing to give this
01:14:38traction on the rear
01:14:40yeah it's sort of pulsing it forward but
01:14:53it's not confidently doing it so um it's passed for front
01:14:58wheel drive but uh failed there for rear
01:15:00now given all the modes we have here let's start off in mud
01:15:05and then we'll work our way through some of the other modes and see
01:15:08how it all goes so here we go
01:15:11let's see what happens
01:15:13this has a um two speed uh hybrid transmission so
01:15:23let's see how well that's going to work
01:15:26not really sort of getting anywhere there in mud mode so we'll come back and we'll try
01:15:35maybe all wheel drive mode see if that makes any difference
01:15:38okay that's engaged
01:15:42that's getting us a little further
01:15:49oh yeah baby have a look at this
01:15:55what a beast
01:15:58it has like almost the lowest ground clearance
01:16:03and it just walked up there so mud mode was no good but all wheel drive
01:16:08it just sent it um wow on road tires as well
01:16:13in the wet
01:16:13i think there you go big tick to have all there with the h6 gt that is um
01:16:20full points for our gradient uh just shows you again a good traction control system works well
01:16:26because this has everything working against it
01:16:27uh sort of sportier road oriented road tires
01:16:31you've got a plug-in hybrid drivetrain with electric motors that flares up quite significantly
01:16:36but it shows you that once it's well sorted it just gets up there
01:16:40and the difference between that was mud and all-wheel drive mode
01:16:43so picking the right mode will take you to your light off-road destination
01:16:46so big thumbs up there good job so time for another electric car this time it is the id5 gtx
01:16:51so it is the sportier uh all-wheel drive electric car from volkswagen
01:16:55um really low ground clearance so just under 170 mils so it'll be interesting to see how this goes
01:17:00uh but two electric motors one on the front axle and one on the rear axle
01:17:05uh this is a little dig just in there
01:17:10oh dig just there as well all right so i'm gonna have to
01:17:14a little bit more of a run up at that okay here we go
01:17:17okay there it is there
01:17:37all right door test
01:17:40nice that all feels good run over to the rollers now
01:17:45all righty so there are a few different drive modes here but we'll just try comfort mode to begin with
01:17:56and see how well this traction control system works
01:18:01all right there it is there we'll roll on to that
01:18:04it's not um it's not liking that at all
01:18:11i'll come back i'll try one of these other drive modes there is like a an off-road style mode here i'll give that a shot
01:18:17all right so what's it called traction
01:18:21let's have a look at the description uh the driving profile traction offers increased comfort and safety
01:18:27especially on slippery roads or roads with varying traction that is us
01:18:30traction control enables harmonious starts and acceleration at all speeds without the wheels spinning
01:18:36all right well
01:18:37pretty much what it says that i need it to do so
01:18:40let's just see how that goes
01:18:42okay
01:18:44okie dokie roll on to that
01:18:47no no bingo that is just rolling backwards
01:18:52all right that's a bit disappointing so we'll try that again this time for uh the rear
01:19:00motor see how that works so i'll leave it in traction mode actually you know i'll try sport mode as well
01:19:06just so we can say we've tried everything there for the front
01:19:08motor
01:19:09okay
01:19:12all right there's sport mode
01:19:14yeah
01:19:16doesn't seem to be making much of a difference so sport mode
01:19:20no good either so all right we'll come back we'll try the rear motor
01:19:24let's see how well that works
01:19:28okay so i'll put that back into traction mode
01:19:30okie dokie
01:19:32so bring that on here
01:19:34okay there it is there
01:19:37all right that looks like it's working
01:19:41excellent so that is a pass it was able to use the rear motor there to
01:19:48drive the vehicle forward
01:19:49up until we we got onto the onto the rollers with all fours so
01:19:54it's a fail for the front motor and a pass for the rear motor for id5
01:19:59okay let's kick this off in traction mode
01:20:02see how this fares
01:20:04all right
01:20:08and there's not a lot of clearance here
01:20:12it sort of moved a little bit there that wasn't too bad
01:20:18there really isn't a great deal of um traction there because it's dug a little hole so i'm just
01:20:25going to come around that a little bit all right here we go
01:20:28it's just basically digging itself a hole we're not going to be um i'm going to be getting very farther at all i'll try another drive mode here just to see if that makes any difference but yeah clearance is a real big issue here for us at the moment okay so i just got a go to fill that in a little bit because the car was just falling
01:20:55into the hole entirely and sort of not really getting anywhere so i'll try it one last time here
01:21:00i just don't feel that it's got the goods here to get us up so yeah it's not even getting any further than that so
01:21:07yeah unfortunately this is something i haven't really sorted out yet with electric cars they just can't get
01:21:13the control of this much torque um managed and I don't know why it's really weird like you've got
01:21:20so much digital control over this but they just cannot uh stop the wheels from flaring up which
01:21:25is what causes it to to sort of um lose control there so we'll try comfort that'll make much of
01:21:31a difference see it sort of it gets a little bit further it flares up but then it all just sort of
01:21:42it all just stops working so yeah so we got to the first cone but just didn't get any further than
01:21:47that um yeah just wish I could figure out this traction control stuff and just make it a little
01:21:51bit better one last thing I'll try is just the esc in sport mode to give us just a bit more
01:21:57flexibility there see if that makes any difference no none at all that's just beaching it entirely so
01:22:05all right I'm going to stop now let's don't point drag anymore um yeah as a reminder we've um sort
01:22:09of in between these runs we've been making sure that the cars that got up earlier uh when it
01:22:15wasn't as wet are still able to get up and they're all getting over that perfectly fine okay we're all
01:22:20done before I run you through the results I need to give a massive thank you to the video guys
01:22:24social guys and the other editorial team that we had here helping with this because it is so cold
01:22:29we're actually going to cancel this because it was going to be so cold and wet we didn't realize it
01:22:33was going to be this bad it is absolutely freezing out here so uh anyway thank you guys now the results
01:22:38so the Subaru Forester has been uncrowned or decrowned I've got the results up on the screen
01:22:43there I want to run you through some of the highlights and just some of the interesting
01:22:45tidbits so the Forester um that went from being one of the most capable off-road uh mid-size SUVs to
01:22:52now being one of the least capable and I just don't know how Subaru missed that brief people bought
01:22:57that car because it was capable off-road and now they've kind of ruined it by adding a hybrid system
01:23:01that has made it not all that good off-road so hopefully that's something they could fix as part of a
01:23:05future update but it is pretty disappointing to see that they have dropped the ball on the new
01:23:10Forester Hyundai Tucson it absolutely killed it on each of our tests it just showed that you don't
01:23:16need to have a super complex system it is a hybrid at the end of the day and it managed to achieve
01:23:19some pretty impressive things and do the type of off-roading that most people are going to do before
01:23:24they start getting a bit serious and that's part of the reason we stuck with factory tires for these
01:23:29cars and didn't go down the path of the same control tire on each car because most of the people that buy
01:23:34these cars do not change their tires if they are just doing basic stuff like this you don't change
01:23:39your tires if you're going to do something more serious a lot of people will change their tires
01:23:42but it's a mid-size SUV that's going to encounter terrain like this only rarely so we wanted to just
01:23:47stick with factory tires then leave it up to the traction control systems and the way that the
01:23:51vehicles were engineered to allow them to then either climb or pass or fail our particular tests so
01:23:56the other interesting things as well EVs are still not there you saw that with the EV5 and the
01:24:02the ID5 as well that it just struggled really with managing traction control EVs just flare up so
01:24:07quickly and the end result is that you get uncontrolled wheel spin and they really can't
01:24:11manage stuff like ascents in muddy conditions or even gravelly conditions as well as cars with
01:24:16internal combustion engines so hopefully that's something I could work on ultimately it's all just
01:24:20software and motor control because it is all digital and it was cool also to see that it wasn't
01:24:24just the Tucson that made it up CX60, CX5 both Mazda family cars and the Havill H6 GT that was pretty
01:24:30impressive too so anyway hope you enjoyed this test let us know which other vehicles you want us to
01:24:35test in similar conditions to this we're always keen to find out you want us to do the expensive
01:24:39cars in this segment stuff like the Audis and the Mercedes-Benz products that are similar size let
01:24:44me know in the comment section and also let us know if we stuffed anything up did we screw anything up
01:24:48major is there anything else you think we should do differently for next time we're always keen for
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