Classic American

Soft roader obsession

Where once the sport utility was a niche product that was designed to combine off-road prowess with proper utility, such as the Chevy Blazer or Ford Bronco, today it’s become little more than a family estate car on stilts with roof rails and some form of all-wheel-drive system. Many of today’s SUVs feature unibody construction, front-wheel-drive architecture and can cope with little more than

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