Read on and use this guide to learn what we've discovered by driving and testing the latest crop of family-friendly haulers side-by-side. The luxury-SUV segment continues to evolve and grow into something that can handle more than the maze of the mall parking structure. The plug-in Cayenne offers eco attributes, Cayenne S-like acceleration at a better value, and a fastback body for vanity's sake. An old-school formula brings modern levels of comfort and technology to Jeep's new full-size SUVs. New Cars.
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Not at all. A camping trip. A shooting expedition. A movie premier. A track day. Only practical people. I want to look rich. I want to make the highway patrol pee itself. A CTS wagon. A Jag shooting brake. An E-Class estate. An ATS-V. News radio. Radio 1. Classic Rock. Not particularly. Yes, absolutely. No, what's a ford? I want an SUV that would teat a Ford in half!
Not unless the terrain cooperated. I want enough torque and horsepower to restart the rotation of a dead planet. I like to keep it in my trousers. Not if I can help it. Only on occasion. Yes, it'll spend most of its time there. I want to keep out of stop and go traffic. Every day. That might be expensive, with regards to gas. None, unless I want them to get carsick everywhere. The 50 TFSI e plug-in hybrid is a particularly smooth operator, with its electric motor and 2.
Electric-only range and CO2 emissions have come down for both versions of the car, making them more competitive offerings on benefit-in-kind tax than they used to be. Save money with new Q5 deals from What Car? The Discovery Sport might be the entry-level Land Rover in the showroom range, but it isn't short on trademark Land Rover capability, comfort or charm. It has a practical interior - a huge selling point in this segment being the available of seven seats for those who need them - that has now been given a much needed lift in premium appeal and also fitted with Land Rover's latest 'Pivi' infotainment setup.
Its petrol and diesel engines are now supplemented by 48V mild-hybrid architecture in a bid to improve fuel economy, but the particularly slick Pe plug-in hybrid version is the stand-out version with its usefully long electric range. If you want a family SUV with more versatility and off-road ruggedness than the class average, the Discovery Sport delivers that with very few associated compromises. Save money with new Discovery Sport deals from What Car?
What's this: a decent-handling mid-range SUV? The X3 has powertrains with plenty of power and performance; the smaller diesel offerings can be a touch unrefined, but the multi-cylinder M40d and M40i are both rapid and smooth. The plug-in X3 xDrive30e PHEV might not shine quite as bright as its conventionally powered rangemates dynamically because, as things stand, it can't be had with the all-important adaptive M suspension which brings with it mass-checking adaptive dampers , but in other areas the petrol-electric X3 is slick and pleasing to drive, although it isn't the most tax-efficient PHEV of its kind due to a fairly small electric range.
Standard equipment is a bit mean on some trim levels, but the car's perceived quality is above that of almost all others, and its on-road manners are hard to fault. Save money with new X3 deals from What Car? Jaguar's first SUV came to market with typically good handling back in , as well as with plenty of cabin space and looks that rocketed it to the top of Jag's range as its best-selling model until it was overtaken by the smaller E-Pace. There are one or two details that detract a little from the overall driving experience, among them some undistinguished four-cylinder diesel engines, a hesitant automatic gearbox and a slightly jittery, noisy ride in certain specifications.
But Jaguar did much for the appeal of the car as part of its major mid-life facelift in , with a much richer interior and a vastly improved infotainment system being added, and an expanded range of engines that now includes a torquey six-cylinder mild-hybrid diesel and a six-pot plug-in hybrid petrol.
For balanced in-town and out-of-town driving, the D diesel would still be our choice, while the mild-hybridised four-pot diesels have better drivability than they used to.
Save money with new F-Pace deals from What Car? Advertisement Back to top 5. Skoda Kodiaq The Kodiaq is our top family SUV not to come from a premium manufacturer and it undercuts even the cheapest of the plusher offerings on this list by a not insignificant sum. So what are you sacrificing? A chunk of premium-feel materials for a start, although everything feels well screwed together. The top four SUVs on this list all have better-balanced handling and ride quality than the Kodiaq, but not all of them offer a third row of seats.
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