the Isuzu Rodeo Denver lifts Isuzu's game in the lifestyle, double cab pick-up market. It doesn't so much move the goalposts as shift them to a new playing field. We took it for a drive in North Wales

The new generation of double-cab pick-ups are far from removed from their workhorse origins. Shrugging off the dangers of Home Counties wildlife, Bob Cooker thought Isuzu's Rodeo Denver was the (big) cat's whiskers.