Incredible moment Land Rover 4×4 car manages to pull a 100-tonne train for six miles along the tracks
Locals watched in awe as the vehicle pulled three luxury carriages
A 4x4 stopped people in their tracks after being spotted towing a 100-tonne TRAIN sixty times its own weight along a railway bridge.
Residents watched in awe as a £30,000 Land Rover Discovery Sport - which has a maximum towing weight of 2.5 tonnes - pulled three luxury train carriages more than six miles.
Engineers were showing off the car's supreme towing abilities, as well as its traction technologies such as Terrain Response, Tow Assist, Tow Hitch Assist and All Terrain Progress Control.
Karl Richards, an engineer at Jaguar Land Rover, said: "Towing is in Land Rover's DNA, and despite Discovery Sport being the smallest model in the range, it has proved its exceptional towing capabilities.
Related Stories
"Over the years, we have introduced game-changing towing technologies to take the stress out of towing for our customers.
"I've spent most of my career travelling to the most punishing parts of the world to test Land Rovers in gruelling conditions, yet this is the most extreme towing test I've ever done."
The train-pulling feat was undertaken on 10km of track at the Museumsbahn Stein am Rhein, in Switzerland, crossing the River Rhine on the dramatic Hemishofen bridge - a historic steel span measuring 935ft long and soaring 85ft above the valley floor.
Managing Director James Platt, said: "For a vehicle of this size to pull a combined weight of more than 100 tonnes demonstrates real engineering integrity.
"No modifications were necessary to the drivetrain whatsoever and in tests the Discovery Sport generated more pull than our road-rail Defender, which is remarkable."