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Question 1. I seem to recall that we are allowed in 5th edition to have vehicles drive through ruined buildings and just required taking a dangerous terrain test. What about driving a basilisk through a wrecked, but not destroyed, Leman Russ? Is it the same? Is there anything that prevents a vehicle from driving through a sheer surface like that? Just seems unrealistic.


Question 2. Does pivoting occur in the shooting phase or the movement phase, and does it require taking a difficult terrain test if you are in terrain?

Question 1:
Ruins are just difficult area terrain with extra rules for climbing. Vehicles can't climb but they can still drive through them. Wrecks are pieces of dangerous and difficult terrain so vehicles are free to move right through/over them.

In short, if it's not impassable a vehicle can drive there.


Question 2:
Normal vehicles pivot in the movement phase. It does not count as movement so will not incur a dangerous terrain test.
Walkers can also pivot in the shooting phase but it still doesn't count as movement.

As to #1, see p. 14 (2nd column, 1st paragraph):

p. 14 wrote:Note that as part of their move through difficult terrain, models may move through walls, closed doors and windows, and all sort of similarly solid obstacles, unless the players hae agreed that a certain wall or obstacle is impassable.

And then the vehicle rules tell you to treat difficult terrain as dangerous.