WE ARE bouncing around Great Windsor Park in the new Vauxhall Grandland X hybrid4 – and not a royal in sight. I have no idea where their hideouts might be but then my attention is on the road ahead.
This plug-in hybrid version of the Griffin marque’s big SUV comes with all-wheel drive and courtesy of someone – Her Maj perhaps – we are trying it out on the muddy and rutted paths of the Crown Estate.
There has been some rain recently and the paths are well-watered and slippy but the Grandland X, which we have switched to all-wheel drive, is taking it all in its stride.
Moreover, and even more surprisingly, we are doing this three-mile off-road challenge in all-electric mode.Boris Johnson has added hybrid to the new cars he has proscribed from