On the road: Mitsubishi Shogun Elegance 3.2  Larger than the
average London bedsit, and more tastefully decked out, too
Mitsubishi Shogun Elegance 3.2 The Mitsubishi Shogun Elegance
3.2: Greener than its predecessor, but that's a bit like saying
Cairo is quieter than Lagos. Photograph: Simon Stuart-Miller for
the Guardian  There's a scene in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The
Galaxy radio show in which Arthur Dent encounters some
terrifying space animal. Dent asks one of his entourage,
"Is it safe?" to which he receives the reply, "Oh yes, it's
perfectly safe. It's us I'm worried about."  That dialogue was
written before the Mitsubishi Shogun arrived in the universe,
back in 1982 (in Earth years), but it could have applied just as
well to the monster 4x4 or any of its various rivals and
imitators. The safari suit in motorised form, the Shogun offered
two big advantages to drivers: it was good at getting out of mud
quarries and it was only slightly less well protected than a
nuclear bunker. All it offered pedestria