It's great to be an off-road fan with cash to burn. Automakers have been hard at work improving their established 4x4s. Pole position is now held by Lexus with its new GX550. So we took one to Pennsylvania along with a Land Rover Defender and a Mercedes-Benz G550 to suss out which rock-crawls past the others in this high-brow, high-luxury, high-profit wheeling segment.
Comprising 8000 acres of reclaimed mine land, the Anthracite Outdoor Adventure Area (AOAA), just outside Shamokin, Pennsylvania, has miles of trails suited for everything from dirt bikes to our luxury trio. The goal was to find both the most capable wheeler in the bunch and uncover which machine best blends 4x4 capability with real-world comfort.LIVABILITYI started our drive behind the wheel of the latest Land Rover Defender 130 in Outbound spec. This extended-wheelbase model is identifiable by body-color panels that replace the truck's rear glass and 20-inch wheels wrapped in all-terrain tire
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