If you're hoping our Defenders will give you time to relax between racing cars - think again. Unless you apply as much skill, concentration and bravery in the mud as you do on the track you'll have no chance of successfully negotiating your way down rock-strewn paths, through rivers and up slopes so steep you'll barely believe any mere car could scale. You will teeter at terrifying angles, climb what look like mountains and descend what feel like cliffs. And then there's our see-saw, a real test of precision: you drive up one side and then down the other, using the car's weight at the pivot point to balance the transition as gently as possible.

We don't use the Defender simply because it's a British motoring institution. Rather more importantly, for over 50 years its off-road abilities have remained unequalled by any other. Just like every car at PalmerSport, in its chosen field, it is the best of the best.