Every Land Rover is an SUV when you need it. I found that information on Land Rover Experience

Everyone sees the way out in their own way. For others, it’s wallowing in the mud and looking for an opportunity to get stuck. Some want to drive off-road as fast as on pavement. For most regular users, it’s driving any way. There are also those who practice on the road not for pleasure, but under compulsion, because whether they like it or not, they are going through the hardest part. In fact, the remote road begins where the ordinary road ends, even when the ordinary one is flooded after heavy rains, which the inhabitants of big cities have noticed more than once.

I have to admit right away that the event called Land Rover Experience, organized with Land Rover customers in mind, is not my thing. This type of road is not for me. By testing the cars myself, I look at their capabilities and where they end up. I examine how the main parts, ie the engine, drivetrain and suspension, work, and also where the body or chassis has its limits.

I could tell that nothing like that happened at the Land Rover Experience. The trainers were well prepared on the product side to show the customers the functions of the car that could be useful in the field. It was supposed to make them happy, not the trip itself. But to be honest, if I hadn’t gone there, I wouldn’t have noticed a few things.

I rarely take advantage of all the advantages that modern electronic systems, such as Terrain Response, have installed on every Land Rover model. For example, I hate natural control, because on high mountains you can die of exhaustion, and I don’t believe in this work. I prefer to rely on automatic adjustments, because that’s what Terrain Response does perfectly, and on my own intuition and skills.

I know that the option of sand conditions is different from mud, so I use it and that the suspension sometimes needs to be raised, but driving on an off-road track with instructors whose job was to show us all this – which sometimes happened. annoyingly boring – I had an epiphany. Because I know everything, I don’t need everything, but do customers who buy or want to buy a Land Rover know and don’t need it?

If I were to give my Land Rover to an inexperienced person to drive down a steep hill, I would want them to use the descent control. And the last thing I would do before getting out of the car to cover the hard part would be to turn on the appropriate driving mode.

Regardless of the customer group, whether they are off-road fans or fans of SUVs, not everyone will know and understand the principles of Land Rover roads until they have tried them all. The very concept of Terrain Response is pretty cool.

And with the end of the production of the first Defender, the era of simple, even old street cars of this brand ended, where only the brain was in the driver’s head. Although the new era started much earlier, it is only the end of the old one that dot the i’s.

Land Rover Defender, and even more models, are no longer the basis for building a monster, such as a Jeep Wrangler or even a small Suzuki Jimny. A Land Rover is a beautiful, comfortable, luxurious car that can be driven in and out of rough terrain, and still be beautiful, comfortable and luxurious, except it’s no longer clean.

These are vehicles that require no off-road training from their owners on an old patrol, just read the manual and figure out what the knob and button are for. Off-road driving skills have been transferred from the driver’s brain, who has no time or space for it, to the car’s computer.

Land Rover – no matter what model – is a car that can’t be said to surprise you like a Jeep Wrangler. Yes, it will be surprising, but unlike other SUVs pimped for several hundred thousand zlotys, even if it is surprising, it does not mean that the driver should give up. Instead, it should put everything in the hands of well-thought-out electronics it even automatically engages different locks when neededand when it is not, it turns them off. And the user does not even need to know what the blockade is and what it offers.

And it’s the same with wading. It was only during the Land Rover Experience that I found the answer to a question I had been asking myself for several years: why the hell does Land Rover design its luxury vehicles so that the wading depth is about 90 cm, if not. is someone going to run that anyway?

It is difficult to answer a question if you have a wrong assumption in the question itself. Who said Land Rover customers would drive off-road looking for such deep trails? It’s not like that. If a Land Rover customer encounters a deep road because the river overflowed, or the city’s sewage system could not cope with the rain, he should have enough courage to venture further. It is the only one with cameras that assess the depth of the water and a system that warns when it enters too slowly. And a body that won’t let this water in and a drive system that will withstand it.

Even the Jeep Wrangler in Rubicon off-road dimensions has only 76 centimeters of safe swimming depth, but that’s not the point. It is also possible to win a 90 cm crossing with it, but with the right technique. Only the user of the Wrangler will not go completely and does not expect from the car, or has a lot of experience or puts a snorkel in advance, which Jeep has provided in place.

The user of Range Rover or Land Rover Discovery will not think about diving, because he is a different user. He should think his machine can do without. And he will be fine. Do you understand the difference?

This is the case for any area that involves off-road driving. Land Rovers are “oversized” in this regard. Thanks to pneumatics, the suspension has great clearances, and the secret is that in bad conditions, when the car realizes that the chassis is starting to touch the ground, it will raise the car in a range that is not normally available for a car. user.

They also have great body geometry, although in 99 percent of cars it will never be used, or even a high average towing capacity. Off-road cameras or graphics that show the position of the wheels seem exaggerated, but they are there so that the driver does not have to get out of the car when he is not sure how it looks from the outside.

Perhaps too many references to Jeep here, but it is impossible to mention this brand in the text about Land Rover. In the past, the American manufacturer used such symbols on the transfer case “full time”, which meant a four-wheel drive in all conditions, and “temporary”, which meant occasionally driving four wheels, when it was necessary. use it. This is a good analogy with Land Rover and Jeep vehicles. Jeep Wrangler is a full-time off-roader, and every Land Rover is also a part-time off-roader.