Thoroughbred Country

Over six decades of building incredible off-road vehicles has resulted in Land Rover’s brilliant Terrain Response System, which is so good that it makes amateurs look like Camel Trophy professionals.

 

- Abhishek Chaliha

In our previous issue we took a bunch of luxury SUVs off-road. And, if you read the article, you’d know that the Land Rover Discovery Sport was the most capable machine when it came to dealing with the rough stuff. In fact, my ability to explore unchartered terrain was restricted thanks to the company of a bunch of other luxury crossovers that weren’t quite as happy to go mud plugging as the Landie.

Well, someone seems to have answered my prayers – as Land Rover sent us an invite shortly thereafter to go off-roading in some of their cars – properly! And when you have a man such as Ashish Gupta (the man behind Cougar Motorsport) heading the initiative, you know that it’s going to be a good one. Oh, and did I mention that he drives a Land Rover Defender.

For this leg of the Land Rover Experience, Ashish and his gang had carved out a pretty neat track around Damdama Lake in Haryana to show us some of the off-road capabilities of the Land Rovers of today.