Staffan Widstrand / Dune bashing - a Dubai motorsport, driving 4x4 cars over the sand dunes, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February 2007

Jeff Wilson / Moving film crew vehicle back onto road in the Hindu Kush, North West frontier, Pakistan, on location filming for BBC Planet Earth series, 2005.

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / 4x4 car sand dune driving, Liwa, UAE

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / 4x4 car sand dune driving, Liwa, UAE

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / 4x4 vehicle sand dune driving, Liwa, UAE

Jouan & Rius / 4X4 vehicle off-road driving over sand dunes, Kaokoland, Namib desert, Namibia

Jouan & Rius / View of Kaokoland with a 4X4 vehicle in the distance, Namib desert, Namibia

Onne van der Wal / 4x4 car hauling a beetlecat dinghy out of the water.