LR 4x4 Driving Experience
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LandRover have invited me down to Ashford in Kent tomorrow to spend the afternoon driving a RRSS around their off road course with an instructor. Anyone done this? Just wondered what to expect. Ive grown up around Landies and have driven a few 'off road' but probably not as off road as I am hoping for tomorrow. Hope theyve got some water to play in 
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All in all it was enjoyable, but Im glad I did it as a freebie rather than paying the £150 LR charge. Was more of a showcase for prosepctive purchasers so we did an hour on road first (and had to keep to the speed limits...boo hiss). When we went off road we only used their 'beginners' course but that still had 3 or 4 inclines that had me clenching my buttocks. TBH, it was less scary when I was doing the driving.
Now ive used a few Landies off road in my time, but never to this extreme. Standard vehicles on road tyres (the instructor proudly telling us that the only extras on the cars where the Land Rover Experience stickers) it was truly amazing what they went up and down and over, forward and reverse.
Had a RR, a RRSS (that I was in) and a Disco 3 on course at the same time, so I could watch all 3 at work. I bought a Disco 3 for my mum in January and have never used any of the gadgets on it (Hill Descent, rough terrian etc) and I have to say the Disco 3 (and the techinically similar RRSS) really was a work of art on extreme off road. Magnificent! (current RR doesnt have any of the gizmos except Hill Descent IIRC, but they are coming on the next RR)
Although dry and therefore no mud, they did have dusty and gravely (that a word?) tracks, and rock climbs to simulate most off road driving conditions (and a log path they name as the brain shaker...F
k me, you wouldnt want to do that one with a hangover!).
If Im brutally honest I would have liked to have had a crack at the intermediate course and was egging the insructor to take me/let me drive down a particularly scary slope, but that one is only used for a Defender and was a very, very steep rocky slope with a 4 foot shere face half way down. Second thoughts, glad I didnt.
As I was already a customer, and was flying solo, my instructor decided to give me some (off the record) off road instruction rather than the 'give you an idea what it can do and hard sell' technique 
All in all it was enjoyable, but Im glad I did it as a freebie rather than paying the £150 LR charge. Was more of a showcase for prosepctive purchasers so we did an hour on road first (and had to keep to the speed limits...boo hiss). When we went off road we only used their 'beginners' course but that still had 3 or 4 inclines that had me clenching my buttocks. TBH, it was less scary when I was doing the driving.
Now ive used a few Landies off road in my time, but never to this extreme. Standard vehicles on road tyres (the instructor proudly telling us that the only extras on the cars where the Land Rover Experience stickers) it was truly amazing what they went up and down and over, forward and reverse.
Had a RR, a RRSS (that I was in) and a Disco 3 on course at the same time, so I could watch all 3 at work. I bought a Disco 3 for my mum in January and have never used any of the gadgets on it (Hill Descent, rough terrian etc) and I have to say the Disco 3 (and the techinically similar RRSS) really was a work of art on extreme off road. Magnificent! (current RR doesnt have any of the gizmos except Hill Descent IIRC, but they are coming on the next RR)
Although dry and therefore no mud, they did have dusty and gravely (that a word?) tracks, and rock climbs to simulate most off road driving conditions (and a log path they name as the brain shaker...F
k me, you wouldnt want to do that one with a hangover!). If Im brutally honest I would have liked to have had a crack at the intermediate course and was egging the insructor to take me/let me drive down a particularly scary slope, but that one is only used for a Defender and was a very, very steep rocky slope with a 4 foot shere face half way down. Second thoughts, glad I didnt.
As I was already a customer, and was flying solo, my instructor decided to give me some (off the record
) off road instruction rather than the 'give you an idea what it can do and hard sell' technique Gassing Station | Land Rover | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff