Chevrolet, General Motors largest global brand, claims to be the inventor of the SUV, (sports utility vehicle) because they launched their Suburban family carrier cum workhorse 4x4 model in 1935 in the US.
At the media launch this week of the first new generation Ford Transit models to appear in the UK I had a brief spell behind the wheel of the new Ford Tourneo Custom, a large MPV people-carrier cum up-market 8/9 seater executive minibus.