DACIA DUSTER

摘要

When you think of proper' off-roading, you think of the Bornean jungle, or Icelandic lava fields. Not some woods just off the A130 near Chelmsford. Yet that was where I found myself, wagging a road-biased wheel about four feet over an alarming hollow and contemplating just how grovelling an apology I'd have to deliver to earn forgiveness for whatever damage I was surely about to cause to our Dacia Duster test car. The plan was to take the 4×4 Duster 1.5 dCi to a muddy location to find out just what this soft-roader could do compared with our class champion, the Skoda Yeti 2.0 TDI 140. It turned out that both could do way more than I expected. The extent of the angle they could reach, the mud slide they'd scrabble through and the amount of confidence they inspired while doing so was wholly unexpected. It was like getting stranded in the wilderness with your hitherto unexceptional uncle, only to discover that he's actually Ray Mears.