Australian 4WD & SUV Buyer's Guide

MERCEDES-BENZ G63 AMG FROM $314,897

America has the Jeep Wrangler, Britain has (or, rather, had) the original Land-Rover Defender and Germany has the Mercedes G-Class. Each started life as a military vehicle in war zones but half a century later they’ve been modernised, if that’s the word, to do battle in concrete jungles.

The box-shaped Benz has one key difference. Those crazy Germans insisted on fitting a massive V8 and four loud exhausts (two each side

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