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Like the Jeep in America, England’s Land Rover is the original real deal when it comes to off-road vehicles in the United Kingdom.
Rovers come with a solid pedigree, only short of Jeep, and after years of me and other journalists testing them off road I can say with much assurance that they can handle most any volume or viscosity of mud and muck and still keep on roving. For snowmobilers, that means any volume of snow and slush too!
One of Rover’s latest, the Range Rover Sport HSE is equally dashing in appearance and performance, and while Land Rover itself is now owned by India’s Tata Motors, these are still built, as before, in Solihull, England.
What makes Rovers so special? That pedigree, and the fact that unlike many casual sport-utility trucks, these can go deeply off road. Whether you’d do that with a $63,095 vehicle, the going price for the shiny silver test vehicle, is another matter.
That’s a lot of coin and several friends asked if the Rover was worth it. Considering you can get average sport utes loaded with luxury interiors and features for $50,000 to $60,000 and not have such capabilities, I’d say yes, Rovers are worth it. For the record, the Sport will wade through 27.5-inch deep water.