Our May issue has hit store shelves and subscriber doorsteps for another instalment of adventure-inducing 4x4 enthusiasm and this month it’s got a pioneering, gold-rushing, wild west kick to it!

Jeep unveils the Avenger in 4x4 hybrid form and Land Rover launches a series of experience days aboard some of their oldest classic models.

We give the Ford Ranger Wildtrak X a go, let the Subaru Outback prove once again why it’s a serial class winner in our 4x4 of the year awards and we give you a sneak peek at the ten great green laning routes for your summer being revealed in next month’s issue.

Two ultimate off-road machines from back in the day show us they’re built for anything, a legendary vehicle is forged from Jeep Wrangler and Isuzu Trooper parts and we take a look at a Range Rover sleeper that’s definitely not a Carawagon thanks to the addition of a Corvette V8.

The Applegate-Lassen Trail plays host to our American adventure as a convoy of Jeeps follow the route taken by the original 49ers that struggled through the wilderness in a bid to strike it rich out west, and we round the finishing corner of this month’s issue with some fun on a bone-dry Salisbury Plain and the Isuzu D-Max G02.