The Isuzu D-Max is still a reliable vehicle and it's no wonder the new version sells well every month. News24Motoring 4x4 trail expert Nick Yell takes Isuzu's capable bakkie up the West Coast.
The Isuzu D-Max is still a reliable vehicle - beside for some overly interfering electronics - and it's no wonder the new version sells well every month. News24 Motoring 4x4 trail expertA 600km journey from Bot River to the Namaqua National Park, with about 75km on gravel and thick sand tracks, should give you a good idea of a 4x4 bakkie's capabilities. After all, that's about the average tar-to-dirt ratio most 'leisure bakkies' get to grips with in their lifetimes.
Apart from day trips around the park and the mostly tar road return journey to Bot River, I also wanted to pit the vehicle against a 28km section of quartzite-littered gravel roads — between Riethuis and the Hondeklipbaai Road — and then hug the coastline on thick and bumpy sand tracks all the way to Brand-se-Baai, another 122 exacting kilometres.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month.
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