A topic of speculation since debuting in Australia last year, the smash-hit Isuzu D-Max X-Rider has finally returned to South Africa.
Second generation X-Rider has moved slightly upmarket, but gets more power from a smaller engine in addition to eye-catching tweaks inside and out.‘s rollout of limited edition bakkies, for at least two decades, has been a prominent line-up fixture that none of its rivals could get close to matching.
For the rest, the X-Rider’s specification sheet is identical to the LS and includes rear parking sensors plus a reverse camera, a 4.2-inch instrument cluster display, all-around electric windows, a six-speaker sound system, cruise control, electric mirrors and a rear diff-lock. Centring around Mossel Bay, George, Knysna and Plettenberg Bay, the two-day launch involved a mixture of tar and gravel driving, with most of the latter taking place on the first day.
Although behind the wheel of the four-wheel-drive model at the time, initial thoughts of switching the rotary dial to 4H never materialised as the X-Rider felt stable and not intimidated by the pass. While 10 kW more than the old 2.5 D-TEQ with torque being 30 kW up at 350 Nm, the initial progress is sluggish with the hilly nature of N2c ausing the engine to run out of breath quickly and in need of a few dropped cogs to keep it on the boil.
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