A (MUCH) BETTER MOUSETRAP
Right then, in the interest of brass tacks (as in, ‘getting down to brass tacks’) what can I tell you about Isuzu’s all-new D-Max ute, having recently spent a good day and a half behind the steering wheels of five different models on but mostly off the road deep in the heart of the South Island’s incomparable High Country.
Put simply, and in language most readers will understand, the new Gen-3 D-Max is a bloody good truck. Like the Gen-2 it replaces, the Gen-3 has a solid, hewn-from-rock feel which is the polar-opposite of the, er, lightweight, touch and feel of some of its competitors. That said I wouldn’t even bother comparing the old with the new. Where the Gen-2 was rugged and reliable but – in later years particularly – was let down by suspension action, wheel articulation, steering feel and basic handling from an earlier era,
