SsangYong Rexton review: ‘It’ll go anywhere and you can’t break it’ | Martin Love

This large and comfortable 4x4 from Korea has established itself as a contender in the UK mud-wrestling world

SsangYong Rexton
Price 27,995
0-62mph 11.5 seconds
Top speed 116mph
MPG 35.8
CO2 208g/km

It's the last day of the Winter Olympics. Were you hooked? Or did it all slide past you as silently as a chubby German lying on a frictionless carbon sled? I've felt a strong sense of connection with the event this year as for the past week I've been at the wheel of the all-new SsangYong Rexton, a barnstorming beast of a 4x4 that also hails from the Korean peninsula. Not that there is anything acrobatic about the Rexton. It's a thick-set, old-school offroader in the mould of a traditional Toyota Land Cruiser or Land Rover Discovery - without any of the drawbacks of delicacy. It doesn't so much grip the road as lie unyieldingly upon it. It's like a giant car-shaped paperweight that's not going to be blown off course, ever.