Guilty pleasures

BRAKES! BRAAAKES!!THE LAST SHOUTED FROM THE WHOLE CHEST, FINGERNAILS CLEAVING INTO THE JESUS HANDLE ON THE LAND CRUISER'S CENTRE CONSOLE. HE STIG HAS LITERALLY NO SELF-CONTROL. Or sense of self-preser

Year of manufacture 1980 Recorded mileage 21,239 Asking price £69,950 Vendor DD Classics, Kew, Surrey; 020 8878 3355; ddclassics.com WHEN IT WAS NEW Price $10,843 (1980) Max power 160bhp Max torque 28

SINCE its arrival in 2023, the Ineos Grenadier has established itself as a rugged, all-purpose 4x4 that can go pretty much anywhere once the tarmac stops. It takes its inspiration from the classic Lan

It feels good to be trudging down a waterlogged forest chute in a brand-new Grenadier. Now in its fourth year of production, the self-styled spiritual successor to the old Land Rover Defender has been

I’d wondered why there were two exceedingly buff French policemen tailing a group of reporters around during a tour of the Ineos factory the last time I was there. Radios, pistols, what looked like sm

The Dakar Rally bivouac is a vast, sprawling, transient community, a ragtag collection of vans, trucks and tents sprouting from the hardscrabble Arabian Desert. Walking through the camp is like steppi