The Land Rover Discovery Sport pulled along the rails train weighing over a hundred tons. The route was almost ten kilometers.
The weight of the composition, which was “taken in tow” by Land Rover, 60 times the mass of the machine and 40 times the maximum permissible load, which is spelled out in the manual. Especially for an unusual experiment on the model put special wheels resembling those, which are equipped with train.
No other changes in car design had been made. In the race, which took place in the North of Switzerland, was attended by a standard Land Rover Discovery Sport with two-liter diesel engine, developing 180 horsepower and is paired with a nine-storyed “automatic”. Note that the previous “road” experience on the railroad was supplied by Land Rover back in the late 80‘s. Discovery I Then dragged on the tracks several cars to demonstrate the capabilities of the new diesel engine.
Meanwhile, the portal wrote about the fact that Jaguar Land Rover has opened a new plant outside the UK. The manufacturing plant is located in the Brazilian city of Itatiaia, will produce the Range Rover Evoque and Discovery Sport. Production capacity will be 24,000 vehicles per year.
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