Used Land Rover - Experience Offroading

Every day the television blasts us with adverts for cars and SUVs and tiny little hatchbacks. One of the most popular adverts kinds which seem to be on the TV all the time, are the adverts for 4x4s and other such exciting off-roading vehicles. We all sit there in front of the TV and watch as the Land Rovers and Range Rovers and huge cars with massive bumpers and wheels as high as your thighs traverse the most absurd and dramatic terrain. It is all very atmospheric and all very interesting, but the problem is that most of have never gone off road, and don’t know what the experience is like.

Enter Land Rover, who are determined to make all the owners of new and used Land Rovers into touch mean machines, able to take on any environment and even the dirtiest dirt tracks. Of course the experience is just as valuable an education if you don’t own a 4x4 of any description, as long as you want to know what it feels like to drive in one of these tough beasty cars.

To get involved all you have to do is sign up for one of their real life experience days. You could just go onto the website and watch one of their virtual experience videos which will take you through a 3d video like you are actually there, but it just doesn’t compare to real life, and that is where their adventure days really come into their own. Sign up for one of them and you are setting off on the direction of complete off-roading knowledge!

If you a complete novice then the introduction course will be the one for you. This fun day out sees people learning skills and techniques for off-roading as opposed to being set off up a mountain and told to find your own way back down. Which is always a relief! This is only a half day course as it isn’t quite as in-depth as some of the other options.
Those other options include things like the advanced experience, which really teaches you off-roading on the most intimidating terrain. Not for the faint hearted, this see people fording rivers, descending down terrifying slopes and essentially defying both physics and gravity all whilst at the helm of your very own 4x4. These techniques are ones that you probably won’t be called upon to use in real life, but which will be great fun if you want to get into off-roading more seriously than just driving across a field. The best but scariest option, in my opinion, is the night drive, where nervous participants drive the tracks in a completely different environment. Judgement is much harder when it is pitch black outside your vehicle, and I think it is this that makes people find the ride quite so exhilarating.

As you can see, there are plenty of options for learning to go off-road, and to experience it in real life. Will you be brave enough to try one of them out?

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Lauren Cooke is a writer and a car enthusiast. He currently writes for the automotive industry. Here she discusses Used Land Rover cars.

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