Jeep Renegade: car review | Martin Love

It may be an all-American icon, but the new baby Jeep is built by Fiat in Italy - and that's no bad thing

Price: 16,995
Top speed: 111mph
0-62mph: 11.9 seconds
MPG: 47.1

As a two-year-old I made an early bid for freedom. I wriggled over the garden fence and set off across the road in search of adventure. The dream came to an early end. I was run over by a bicycle and broke my leg badly. I spent the next three months in a heel-to-hip cast. I don't remember much about the drama, except for one thing: my dad bought me a Jeep Tonka toy. I can picture every detail of it so clearly - the rubbery white-walled tyres, the flip-down windshield, the pop-eyed front lights peering through their small wire cages.