Life's a beach in seven-seat Hyundai Palisade SUV

The area and car may look straight out of a Dubai post card but it's just picturesque Kalk bay in the Western Cape. Picture: PHUTI MPYANE

The ingredients are relatively simple. It's 4,980mm long and has a gutsy diesel engine. The journey began on a rainy Jozi morning and with the packing still to be done we were already stranded. It’s the seven-seat version and there are eight of us. You can order it in an eight-seat configuration for free.

Satisfied, we were off and the Palisade’s cushy drive is obvious within the first few metres. The damping soaks up road imperfections remarkably well and the noise insulation is up there with best. The driver seat is spot on, squatting low enough to create the illusion you are in a small and manageable car instead of a hulking SUV. The comfort and support of the driver's seat left no backache even after racking up a solid 1,200km in one gulp.

It never struggled to haul its full load anywhere and also seen in how it spears strongly past slow-moving traffic. It’s good for a 0-100km/h time of 10.5 secs and a top speed of 190km/h and even small throttle inputs have the Palisade surging forward.l On the expansive and largely flat land it remained mostly in front-wheel drive though, and this also why it consumed so little fuel.

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