Toyota Land Cruiser

All Land Cruisers are powered by a four-cylinder 2.8-litre diesel engine with 177 horsepower. It has a decent amount of pulling power, so it doesn’t take too much effort to get this enormous car rolling at a meaningful rate, but it’s also true that it feels pretty slow when compared with the six-cylinder versions of rivals like the Land Rover Discovery and Mercedes GLE. The top speed is pegged at a fairly modest 108mph, but you’re unlikely to get anywhere near that, because if you try to accelerate a bit too hard, the engine soon becomes noisy and intrusive, so it’s better to just sit back and relax. The six-speed automatic does a good job of slushing between the gears, but it can take quite a long time to react when you need a sudden burst of speed. We haven’t yet tried the manual version.