INFORMATION
For more details of the Land Rover
Experience go to
landrover.co.uk/experience or tel
0800 655 6465
for the terrain. An obvious concern for the
natural environment results in his favourite
mantra, “Tread lightly”.
With press and promotional work,
together with running the Experience for
nearly 25 years, Roger has unprecedented
off-roading experience with Land Rovers.
Former LR CEO, Bob Dover, called him
‘the maestro’; he’s one of very few people
“Trailer handling is one of the many
to earn the title, ‘Mr Land Rover’; and in
his book, Born in Lode Lane, it says, “He
optional extras that can be included
has probably done more off-road miles
than anyone else on the planet.” So it was in an Experience course”
something of an honour for me to renew
my acquaintance with Roger, especially as
he had taken a day out of his busy schedule correct way to hitch and set-up a horse understanding ground conditions and the
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to accompany us on a Land Rover trailer, then gave her a mini towing and vehicle is very necessary – especially if
A variety of pristine
Experience. trailer-reversing course. Trailer handling is you’re about to rely on it to take you down a
Land Rover models,
all in gleaming
As I’ve been lucky enough to do quite a one of the many optional extras that can be loose-surfaced near-vertical bank or climb a
silver, are on hand
bit of off-roading over the years, and as my included in an Experience course. steep, apparently impossibly muddy at Eastnor Castle.
youngest daughter, Kim, had always been Then, to the muddy bits. Ken ran gradient straight out
They don’t always
envious of those exploits, when Land through Discovery’s high-tech set of of a river...
stay that way for
Rover kindly extended its invitation to solutions to just about any difficult terrain, Talking of rivers, Kim took to this off-
long!
both of us, an ideal opportunity arose to get explaining when and why to select the roading business like a duck to water, soon
a first-time off-roader’s perspective. options it offers. Like most Landies, confidently negotiating slippery slopes and
Despite a touch of pre-off-roading Discovery 3 is one of the most sophisticated mud pools, with water lapping at the sills,
nerves, Roger’s and instructor, Ken and capable off-road vehicles available, yet like an old hand – and loving every second of
Knight’s, calming presence soon set Kim at its clever technologies translate into simple it. A real voyage of Discovery and a lot of
ease. Even more so as knowing her interest terms via its Terrain Response dial and a fun, that’s the Land Rover Experience. P
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