(Hummer drivers don't typically drive off-road -- that's what Hummer camp is for).
While they were unlikely to drive off-road even on vacation, for instance, they wanted four-wheel drive because it suggested they took adventurous trips.
They use excuses like the need to drive off-road once or twice a year, the need to cart around ski or soccer equipment or back trouble.
Oskar suggested we drive off-road a bit, which sounded cool, so we ventured out to Langjökull glacier and proceeded to drive up it, which is as hard as it sounds and doesn't really work.
Do you plan to drive off-road a lot?
Remember: When you drive off-road, even though you are going quite slowly, the chassis itself truly rocks around quite a bit, which can make even the most stoic passenger a bit uncomfortable.
Especially if you have to drive off-road a great deal, where the Grand handles beautifully and capably, and where some other SUVs engineered more for asphalt than boulder hopping will be down right uncomfortable.
Still, you need to maintain forward momentum to drive off-road, and thanks to a special increased-torque output position (at low speeds) when the transmission is shifted into low range, the Range Rover has no trouble achieving plenty of muscle even with modest use of the gas.
All that capability may be worthless to most buyers, but as Tom Marinelli Tom Marinelli, Jeep's global marketing manager explains, more Jeep buyers drive off-road than other SUV buyers, and to them "just having the capability to know I can go climb that mountain is what matters".
One of the guidelines for ORD states that (Van der Merwe 2004): "Vehicles that drive off-road may not follow in each other's tracks".
