ABOVE AND UNDER

From chasing the skies to nose-diving into the Great Indian Desert, it’s dune-bashing time in the new Endeavour

- Janak Sorap

This is the 2020 Ford Endeavour. And if you have the bankrolls, go buy it. End of story. I promise that you won’t regret buying one, not because I have been a perennial lover of this SUV, but because of one thing that this SUV lets you do — bully. It’s got a sheer bruteness that makes the rear-view mirrors of cars ahead tremble with fear and they quickly get out of the way rather than get run over by the mighty Endy. A game of dominance, I could call it, considering the standard of driving etiquette across our country.

And it doesn’t come as a surprise from an American car brand, which is why they haven’t bothered much changing the design for the 2020 model. Good thing, there! In fact, there are only two changes on the outside; the headlamps are now all-LED with a squarish-ish housing for the projector, and the badging on the side grille now just says ‘Endeavour’ instead of the earlier ‘3.2’ and ‘2.2’. That’s because Ford has discontinued both the motors and equipped it with a new 2.0-litre mill that comes paired to a 10-speed transmission.