The Mucking Ordeal

Sleeves up, windows down, hands firmly behind the wheel. It’s time for tradition!

- Raunak Ajinkya

Welcome one and welcome all to our annual Slush Fest feature. A day that we use to pointlessly aim cars into tremendous piles of muck and slush and expect them to magically pull themselves out of it with minimal fuss. It doesn’t always pan out like that (least of all this time), but when it does, we stand up and applaud. Sometimes even from behind the wheel as a sign of relief. Jokes aside, what this is is a fun, and slightly factual, representation of some of the coolest off-roaders we have in the country today being pitted against the other. Points aren’t awarded, but laughs are had, muck flies, slush gets into all kinds of places, and there are photo-ops aplenty. Shall we, then?

THE BIG GUN

You know what I love about the Range Rover Sport? That it defies logic. How can something so daringly humongous be so adept at displacing large chunks of Earth? The track we drew up for the sake of trying to quantify things didn’t seem to fluster the Rangie one bit. Its traction modes helped, of course, and the fact that it was far and away the one with the biggest output in terms of power and torque, but even with that in mind, the way it managed everything as though it had practically no weight at all is what astonished me and kept me coming back to it.