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Train-pulling Disco’s tech tricks

Matt Greenop · 0 comments

Land Rover’s Discovery Sport has far more pulling power its spec sheet gives it credit for – more than 40 times its certified towing weight.

Rated to haul a solid 2500kg (2.5 tonnes), the ‘Disco’ managed to pull a massive 108 tonnes of train carriages – tipping the scales at a whopping 60 times the SUV’s own weight.

The 10km journey through the Rhine region of northern Switzerland used Jaguar Land Rover’s 132kW Ingenium diesel and a host of very clever semi-autonomous technology.

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