Executive 4x4

It does more jobs well than anything else in the range. It has the presence for a corporate collection at a hotel and the capability for six hours on the N2. It carries a family of four with real luggage and it copes with a village approach in September.

When a guest tells us what they are doing rather than what they want to book, this is the vehicle we suggest more often than any other.

Bangladeshi highways are busy, mixed-traffic roads. The N2 between Dhaka and Sylhet passes directly through towns and bazaars, and surface quality varies considerably along its length.

An executive 4x4 absorbs that far better than a saloon across five to seven hours. See the Dhaka to Sylhet route for what that journey actually involves.

This class has become a standard alternative to the traditional saloon for wedding work, particularly where the venue involves rural approaches or the couple wants a taller, more imposing arrival.

Floral dressing is arranged to your colour scheme — see wedding car hire.

Most of the year the clearance on this class is a comfort feature — it takes the sting out of speed bumps, broken edges and unmade approach roads that a saloon transmits straight into the cabin.

There are days when it is not a comfort feature. Urban waterlogging after heavy rain is a normal event in Dhaka, Sylhet and Chattogram during the monsoon, and it is the single most common reason a journey in a low car becomes a journey that turns back.

This is why the class sits where it does in our range. It is not about looking capable; it is about the booking still happening on the afternoon the road outside your hotel is under six inches of water.