Let's start by dealing with the elephant in the room: the BMW iX does, indeed, look a bit... out there. But who spends this kind of money and wants to blend in? We almost admire it alongside relatively anonymous alternatives and, give it time, we reckon it won't look quite so offensive in the metal....

While this highlights the Cayenne’s impressive breeding, it also demonstrates the sheer size of this SUV. It’s arguably a bit too big for Britain’s congested city streets and narrow country lanes, but this hasn’t stopped it from being a huge success for Porsche. It helps that it’s brilliant to drive....

Few big seven-seater 4x4 SUVs can match the size or grandeur of the Mercedes-Benz GLS. Designed and built in the USA, the supersized GLS is more than five metres long and sits two meters high. It also weighs a considerable 2.6 tonnes. The second generation GL was launched in 2013 - and renamed...

While Jaguar's 'grace, space and pace' marketing slogan preceeded the SUV boom by a good half a century, it probably describes the Jaguar F-Pace better than any other car the brand's ever sold. The F-Pace was its first SUV, arriving in 2016 and raising eyebrows when it wasn't based on a Land Rover....

Only a handful of cars can claim production runs as long as the original G-Class, or ‘ Gelandenwagen’ often shortened to ‘G-Wagen’, that wonderfully descriptive Germanic name roughly translating to ‘terrain vehicle’. It might have been built as a tough, dependable 4x4 for commercial and military...