Of course, I'm not writing about a new model of vehicle but a cast off that I bought from my daughter in 2013. Things have reached a sorry state I am afraid when you have to buy your children's old cars!
In all my motoring years and they now exceed 44, I had never previously owned a 4x4 and so agreed to buy it from her with a certain amount of trepidation. In the short term this trepidation proved valid as I had to replace a clutch that was only 30,000 miles old but Land Rover, bless them footed half the bill agreeing that this was a rarity. I place no blame on Sarah as the clutch on a Land Rover is far more user friendly than that on a 777 and to date she hasn't managed to burn one of those out!
And so to my love affair with this piece of metal which has been fully consummated during our current adventure. We hook it up to nearly one and a half tons of metal and without fail, she starts first time, does everything we ask of her in all weathers and effortlessly delivers us to our next destination. Most of the time, I'm not even aware that the caravan is behind us, that good is this vehicle and for any of you that have followed me with caravan in tow (Barry knows only too well) I don't hang around.
Mind you, when doing 70mph on the German autobahn with caravan in tow, I did find it rather disconcerting to see other vehicles coming past me at speeds in excess of double what I was doing! Overtaking there can be just a tad scary at times.
Anyway, she is the finest tow car I have ever driven and I look forward to Sarah's next cast off when she looks to trade her current Freelander 2 in for that Land Rover Discovery she so covets.
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