So stop worrying about your caravan.
The 2018 Land Rover Discovery is a car that aims to do everything. It’ll tackle tough terrain like a mountain goat, handle urban driving duties like a limousine, and withstand duties as a family wagon with ease and sophistication. We’d be lying if we didn’t say that we have a soft-spot for the new Landie, but maintained healthy reservations about its outright capability.
In the modern world, the SUVs we buy are becoming less and less capable off-road, putting ever-increasing emphasis on ability on-road. It makes sense, given that the bulk of SUV-owners never get their high-riding wagons dirty, sans brief sprints down some dirt or a meander on a grassy field. So it’s nice to know that, for the few who intend to put their SUVs to work, that they can work when required.
So imagine our amazement when Land Rover put its brand-new Discovery to the test, giving it the task to tug a 110-tonne, 100m-long road train (yes, that’s one-hundred-and-ten tonnes) down a close section of road in the Northern Territory. While the Disco is rated to pull 3.5-tonnes, this amazing feat proves that on only is the Discovery capable, but it’s far more capable than numbers might suggest.
Put to the task was a Discovery Td6, packing a 190kW/600Nm 3.0-litre turbodiesel engine, which is capable of returning a miserly 7.2L/100km on official testing (without a road train hitched up, of course). We won’t go into too much detail about what transpired, because Land Rover was kind enough to film the proceedings for your enjoyment.
You can read our report of the Land Rover Discovery’s local landing here, and our launch report from the Discovery’s international debut at the 2016 Paris motorshow here.
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