Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Range Rover - Repair and Consignment Sales Redwood City - Watch former 'Stig' Ben Collins take a Range Rover Sport down a ski slope - Bosch European Redwood City - (650) 368-3000



Land Rover’s Range Rover Sport has conquered one of the world’s most extreme ski runs with a former ‘Stig’ at the wheel.

The Swiss run is called the Inferno Mürren and stunt driver and former BBC Top Gear Sti g Ben Collins was in the driver’s seat of a Range Rover Sport to take on something more conventionally done by people on two skis rather than four wheels.

The ski course is used in one of the world’s most challenging downhill races and despite gradients of up to 75 per cent, the Range Rover completed the 14.9km course in just 21 minutes and 36 seconds, reaching speeds of up to 96mph.

Coventry car maker Land Rover added only a roll cage, a harness, and reinforced tires to what was otherwise a production Range Rover Sport.

The extreme downhill descent saw Ben traverse ice, loose rocks, mud, and grass.
Speaking after completing the daredevil feat he said: “This was genuinely one of the hardest tests I’ve faced in my driving career.

“The route was insane and certainly the toughest course I’ve ever completed.
“It challenged you with every kind of obstacle this side of molten lava and as conditions go, it was about as bad as it gets – torrential weather mixed with cliffs, trees, all kinds of stuff you don’t really want to crash into.
“The key to the run was precision: being able to maintain speed and carry that speed down the hill in the way the skiers can do, carving through the turns.”

source: http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/watch-former-stig-ben-collins-12166925
by Enda Mullen

http://www.boscheuropean.com

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