Reinventing an icon is never easy. Britain went through ten prime ministers during the time it took for Land Rover to make any significant changes to the, er, Land Rover, and while the Volkswagen Golf has been through six generations since 1974, a Golf is still very much a Golf.
When the first generation of premium SUVs started coming out, a lot of people remarked on the fact that all of them seemed to be rated at the legal maximum 3500kg towing weight. Traditionally reserved for the heaviest-duty ladder-framed off-road trucks, the 3.5-tonne limit was suddenly being applied to high-tech...