SsangYong had been making good vehicles for a long time now, but they’ve been held back in this
country because people didn’t know whether to order their SsangYong withnoodles or rice. Well, last year the company
changed its name to KGM – so maybe now British 4×4 buyers will start taking them at face value instead.
You’ll be familiar with the Rexton, Musso and Korando, but the Torres is the first vehicle to be launched under the
KGM badge rather than inherited by it. It’s a medium SUV with a distinctly chunky, up-for-it sort of off-roady character, and it’s available with either a 1.5-litre petrol engine or an electric motor.
That’s ‘an’ electric motor, singular. This is plenty powerful enough but only drives two wheels; the petrol version is available with all-wheel drive in the range-topping model, but that aside the Torres (which takes its name from Torres del Paine, a spectacularly mountainous region of Patagonia) is built to be a family SUV rather than a true off-roader.
Read the full article in the September issue of Overlander 4×4 –
