FORD PUMA

摘要

Is there a better car in which to lose yourself in rural Wales? WHY WE'RE RUNNING IT. To find out if the class-leading crossover is as good to live with as it is to drive. Apparently, you should never rely on sat-nav to guide you to Aston Martin's new St Athan factory. Of course, this useful bit of information was relayed to me only once I had reached the home of the DBX (in the countryside not far west of Cardiff) via a circuitous, Google-calculated route that took in all manner of ridiculously tight and twisty Welsh country lanes. They were the sort of exceptionally narrow lanes - heightened by dense, overgrown foliage - that feature blind crests, sweeping bends and frequent rutted and broken surfaces. A fellow journalist attending the same event made the same navigational error and arrived slightly white-faced, noting that he was glad to have been driving an SUV, given the rough roads, while admitting it was a challenge to fit his large machine down those lanes. His comments perfectly encapsulated why the Ford Puma I had arrived in had been the ideal car for the journey.