Even with San Francisco's tortuous traffic and hills, I turned in an average of 26.4 mpg after a week of driving on everything from freeways to city streets to a little bit
of dirt road crawling.
Not exact matches
The Sahara off -
road experience was kept to a basic
dirt trail on the approach to a hilltop site where Jeep had some Rubicons prepared for us to hop into (the turbo - four is excellent for
crawling, offering the sort
of predictable and smooth power delivery needed to keep everything shiny without worries about atmospheric loss at altitude).
There is an available off -
road package that, as we experienced firsthand on a treacherous mountainside off -
road course, turns the GLE into a capable rock -
crawler instead
of just a
dirt -
road champion.
On a recent test drive, Nissan showed off the Armada's ability to climb a steep
dirt hill, drive around banked curves, and then
crawl across hugely rutted
roads where one
of the wheels were up to a foot off the ground.
This poorly maintained
dirt road wasn't rock -
crawling by any stretch, but X1 certainly felt out
of its element here — it's also no Jeep Renegade Trailhawk — but to its credit, it also never protested, groaned or rattled.
«We carried on through the manic avenues and came to a long, wide
road with bikes sifting round each other, fruit and spice stalls spread all over the
road, paraplegics
crawling through the
dirt, no Westerners in sight, heads as far as the eye could see, a canopy
of pointy hats.