When it comes to planes, trains and automobiles, you likely love all three for different reasons. However, you likely don't place all three in the same category; that is, unless you're considering the pros and cons of each for traveling to X destination. However, last week Land Rover merged your love for cars and trains into one thrilling stunt that involves a Discovery Sport towing a 100 ton train. Take a look at the video to watch it in its entirety.
"To highlight the new Discovery Sport's towing capabilities – and just how much more capable it is than the LR2/Freelander it replaces – Land Rover had the specialists at Aquarius Railroad Technologies fit the three-row sport-ute with a set of rail wheels and hooked it up to a train of three luxury carriages totaling 119 tons," reports the staff at Auto Blog. "That's considerably more than the 2.75 tons it's rated for, some 60 times the vehicle's own weight, or roughly the mass of a Boeing 757 passenger jet. But as you can see from this video, the Landie had little trouble pulling the load, moving it down the tracks in Switzerland to cross the River Rhine on the 935-foot-long Hemishofen bridge."
Pretty crazy, right? If you're looking for a luxury with serious capability and a wide range of desirable features, come visit us at Land Rover Birmingham for a test drive in the Discovery Sport.