• A trip to the village green firework display seemed
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just the job for a four-wheel-drive vehicle we have on test. So our youngest road tester loaded the vehicle with grandmother, wife, and friends, with no fear of the muddy verges and quagmire that formed the car parking arrangements.
Fireworks observed and hot potatoes eaten, the party embarked on the homeward journey, only to find that the combined forces of the test weights and a large ditch had left the vehicle stranded. The sight of five people struggling to unload the weight in the pitch black and cold of a November evening must have provided great amusement to the occupants of the many pristine looking off-road vehicles that passed.
When the hest of Sloane Square's 'keep Land Rover British's contingent had gone home, transfer boxes untouched, our embarrassed tester was hauled out of his predicament . . . by a samaritan with a strictly two-wheel drive Daimler Sovereign.