4x4

In 2010, BMW and the German racing team X-Raid decided to transform a Mini Countryman into an offroad-vehicle and participate in the world-famous Dakar Rally.

City-SUVs are the latest trend in the automotive world. They aren't necessarily made for offroad terrain but attract customers through their modern and urban design.

The Land Rover Defender is one of the oldest offroad models. It's loud and uncomfortable, but it's absolutely authentic in its simplicity. We take a look at this iconic vehicle.

The Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid is the world's first hybrid SUV with 2 electric motors and a 2-liter combustion engine. We tested if this makes sense for offroad vehicles.

Nancy and Nadia faced the challenge to cross the Moroccan desert in a Hummer H3. The racers took part in the Conti 4x4 Trophy, a rally through the Atlas Mountains & Western Sahara.

Before Bentley and Jaguar started producing their own luxury SUV models, the two British brands presented their take on this special range of cars.

SUVs usually are impressive right out of the factory, but there are many tuning and customizing options: huge wheels, crazy colors and perfomance similar to super sports cars.

Station wagons are regarded as family cars with a lot of cargo hold. But the Skoda Octavia, Opel Insignia Country Tourer & Audi S4 allroad quattro want to be more than this.

Here we look at some of the more extreme specimens in the offroad world: a Fiat Panda monster truck, a Ford Raptor with 600 hp, a conversion of a Mercedes G-class Edition by ORC.

The Porsche Panamera Turbo S is the brand's most powerful series production vehicle. But there are other 4x4's that don't need to shy away from comparison.

The four elements fire, ground , water and air, represented by four 4x4's. For example, the Audi Q3 is at home in all terrains,.

Pickups are all-purpose utility vehicles. In Europe they are mainly used commercially. But in the United States trucks are as common as SUVs in the private sector.

The Porsche Cayenne Turbo and the Range Rover Supercharged are powerful and luxurious offroaders. On the road they play in a class of their own. But how do they fare off-road?

Low-priced SUVs frequently lead in the sales statistics and also do fine in independent benchmark tests. They cost less in acquisition and maintenance than the premium models.

SUVs are fun to drive, even on ice and snow. We present Mercedes Benz' all-wheel-drive range of cars and take the German brand's GLA250 and S500 4matic to the Austrian Alps.

In 2014, 103 participants took part in the Rally Breslau Balkan, chasing their motorcycles, quads, or all-wheel all-terrain vehicles through rivers and over tree trunks.

When BMW released the X6, a mixture of a sports car and a cross-country vehicle, in 2008, many people doubted that this concept would be successful. But they were proven wrong.

The Japanese Subaru is the world's largest manufacturer of four-wheel drive cars and has been specializing in offroad vehicles for many decades.