No, since you ask, it hasn’t got much in the way of off-road ability on its 22-inch, low-profile tyres, but the all-terrain drive selector headings of neve (snow), terra (off-road) and sabbia (sand) might give you some idea of the type of terrain that typical owners might encounter outside of racetrack-smooth Tarmac. More recently, Lamborghini’s Urus took the whole idea into hyperspace with its £159,925 price and 3.3sec 0-60mph time. It’s debatable, but probably the first super SUV was the Porsche Cayenne in 2003, yet more recently there have been rivals such as the Audi RS Q8, Bentley Bentayga S, Rolls-Royce Cullinan, BMW’s X5 and X7, the Mercedes-Benz AMG GLE 63S and Range Rover’s Sport SVR. Aggressively styled, tipping the scales at more than 2.2 tonnes, mega powerful and expensive, they love their fuel but are often conflated with more innocuous family crossover/SUVs, or even battery-electric SUVs. Yet the Super Sport Utility Vehicle is surely the most prominent Wanted: Dead Or Alive poster on the wall of the green party sheriff’s office and, by whatever reckoning, they are curious beasts. “I launch the Ami in Paris and they try to ban it.” “I just don’t think that environmentalists like the idea of individual mobility,” said Citroen boss Vincent Cobee recently. Coincidentally, but soon after, Brighton Green Party MP Caroline Lucas was interviewed on the radio attacking SUVs and calling for a chilling “behavioural change” with regard to what people drive. Last month a group of activists self-styled as the Tyre Extinguishers deflated tyres on a range of parked sport utility vehicles (SUVs) across 13 UK cities including London, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Bristol and Brighton.
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