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As regular readers of these pages know only too well, I would be more than happy if I never saw an international airport again. My wife, however, not so much. Which is why last weekend I surprised her with an ankle-biter-free mini-break to the island she has always wanted to visit: Iceland.

What a place. Every bit as fascinating, friendly and zen as everyone told us it would be. The first in a long list of surprises was the fact that, as we drove to Reykjavik from the airport at about 5.30 in the afternoon, it was still daylight.

‘Yes but it will still be dark at ten o'clock tomorrow morning,' announced the barman later that evening. ‘And in a few weeks, it goes dark at one o'clock in the afternoon and won't get light again until 11 o'clock the next day.'

Sure, it doesn't have that off-road, rugged SUV profile, but I think that's all a bit fake anyway most of the time

I love its curves, its bulges, its side scoops… I actually think it comes across a bit like a Porsche Macan/Panamera cross

I had no idea.

And what do you know, a couple of beers, several schnapps, a blackened cod's head and a few hours' sleep later, there we were having breakfast in our hotel at 9am, yet to see the sun rise. We had, however, witnessed something else. Overnight, Elon Musk, the endearingly awkward maverick genius behind PayPal and Tesla, had been busy again.

While most of us had been expecting him to roll out the next version of his stunning falcon-wing-door Model X on our computer screens one morning, what did he post instead? A film of him driving into one of Tesla's massive hangars in his new articulated electric truck. Listen to these for stats: 0-60mph in five seconds, fully loaded with 80,000lb of cargo; a cruising speed of 65mph - again, fully loaded; thermonuclear blast-proof windscreen and funky central driving position. Then there's ‘enhanced auto pilot', which means clever cruise control that brakes and accelerates on its own, keeps the truck in http://gbsinternational.blogspot.nl/2018/02/chemineer-7-htn-5-gearbox-repair.html lane and will call the emergency services should it suspect the driver has become unwell - after gently coming to a standstill, of course. Independent motors on the front and rear wheels make it impossible to jack-knife.