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Ron B.
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2003 L322 Range Rover Vogue 4.4 V8 Auto
2007 Yamaha XJR1300
Previous: 1983, 1986 RRC; 1995, 1996 P38A; 1995 Disco1; 1984 V8 County 110; Series IIA
RIP Bucko - Riding on Forever
My s3 could do that easily
One of those stupid stunts all manufacturers seem to like to do...
Plenty of other Land Rovers towing HGVs in the UK through the snow at present. Not a stunt.
D2a Td5 Manual, Chawton White. aka "Daisy"
Build date 11th Oct 2003
Freelander 2 2011, manual, the daughter calls it Perri
Before I had a Land Rover I did not have any torque wrenches. Now I have three.
LROCV #1410
It’s still a stunt...
Those HGVs are under their own power also.
Anything can be moved once you overcome the initial...
What’s happening to the chassis/driveline etc if asked to do it “full on” is the question that should be asked...
Wasn’t it VW that towed an Aircraft?
John Cadogan debunked these stunts last year on his YouTube channel, using the aircraft being towed as an example. Those PR stunts just look impressive to impressionable punters.
Well, the D5 Td6 has 254 hp. We used to pull loads like that (not legally, mind you ) with Macks, (Maxidyne @237hp, C motor @ 250, early 711 were around 210hp no turbo). Mind you, they had the torque to maintain a reasonable road speed, and get it up and over hills, too! I think the early Government Roadtrains had Rolls Royce and Gardner engines between 200 - 250 hp.
I'm just wondering which poor bastard is going to get a great deal on that particular "Demo model"
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John Cadogan debunked the "PR crap" surrounding it and why it was all style over substance - effort-wise. He went into the physics of why it was relatively easier to do than people assumed, and basically why it was a 'spectacle' rather than a 'difficult feat'. If you are on a level, grippy surface (hanger and runway in that case), and you are in a 4WD using a solid towbar, you can move a wheeled object that weighs quite a hell of a lot more than you do (coefficient of rolling resistance is around 1%). You can't do the same if it was deadweight, just sitting on the ground and you literally had to drag it. That is what fools people - they equate the rolling load to be the same as a grounded 'drag along the floor' load. As John rightly pointed out in his video - load up a wheel barrow with bricks and push it up the street. Now take the wheels off and try again....
Dave (Blknight.Aus) on the odd occasion shifted a 13 ton Bushmaster PMV with both his D1 and also his 110 and that was well within the capability of those vehicles. Other people have set records pulling heavy wheeled objects using their teeth, or hair, or testicles - but I wouldn't recommend it! Ha Ha
Go to the link below and find "Porsche tows Airbus A380 - but is it really that impressive?" from around 9 months ago. I'd put a direct link but he often says bad words!
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