David Ward is a Detourist with a difference. Where others might opt for a rugged overlander or comfortable Grand Tourer for their road trip adventures, Ward favours the tiny Smart car.

While many of the 2,500 Porsche 911 Dakars made will spend pampered lives in private collections one car has been driven just as it was designed – on an epic adventure from Vietnam to the Gobi Desert and back.

Best mates Kobus Esterhuizen and Marius Burger Lourens are driving from Cape Town to Europe in a car that not many, if any, others have used for this trip.

A sixty-year-old Chinese grandmother has become a feminist icon thanks to a four-year road trip.

In 1969 Chris Wall, Mike Palmer and Waxy Wainwright set out from London in their £400 Land Rover “TEN”. Nine months later they were home after driving 40,000 miles through 40 countries.

Two classic Porsche Cayennes have just completed a 2,000-mile trip to Tierra del Fuego.

We love an unlikely adventure vehicle at Detour and the Aston Martin Vantage that Phil and Will Churchill have chosen to circumnavigate the globe definitely ticks the box.

The electric Nissan Ariya that will take British adventurers Chris and Julie Ramsey on a 17,000-mile drive from the magnetic North Pole to the South Pole is almost ready to roll.

Chris Ramsey of Plug In Adventure is aiming to be the first person to drive from Antarctica to the Arctic in an EV.

If you were choosing a vehicle for a round-the-world adventure what would it be? Most people would probably opt for a rugged 4x4 like a Land Cruiser, Land Rover or G-Wagen. But not Philippe Delaporte.

A Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo has set the bar high for EV driving records, by not only covering more than 1,400 miles in less than 34 hours, but also climbing over three miles in the process.

Top Gear once called the Stelvio Pass the world’s best road. So, if you’ve got a passion for four wheels or two, a pilgrimage is obligatory.

Whether you take days or weeks to drive it Iceland’s Route One will be seared on your memory forever.

Few have any reason to visit, except for the pure thrill of the drive.

There are more than a dozen memorials to those who have perished along the way.