Range Rover Sport climbed a ladder with a length of 999 steps

16 February 2018

The slope of the giant stairs is 45 degrees

Land Rover likes to show off-road abilities of their vehicles through a variety of tricks and records. This time the British company drew attention to the mountain of Tianmen mountain, located in China. In Chinese it's called "Heaven's gate". Her name was given for the unusual cave at the top. This attraction draws crowds of tourists, but this time they had to wait their turn to climb up.

The road to "Heavenly gate" consists of 999 steps. The slope of this giant ladder is 45 degrees, so that one is already climbing is an excellent aerobic exercise. However, none of the car never tried to come around on this mountain.

Behind the wheel of the British SUV was Tun Hoping (Ho-Pin Tung), a spare pilot team Jaguar "Forumla-E". "I took part in the "Formula-E" and "Formula 1", won the "24 hours of Le Mans", but it was, without a doubt, one of the most demanding challenges I faced," admitted the driver.

The car was chosen are also very unusual. Surely you must have noticed that the hood of this red Range Rover Sport in some moments of the video wiring is connected? Yes, the SUV is really worth the charge, because it is the hybrid version of the P400e. It uses a two-liter gasoline turbo engine family Ingenium, developing 300 horsepower, and a 116-HP electric motor. This car flaunts a total return 404 "horses" and 640 N·m.

Range Rover Sport P400e able to travel up to 50 kilometers in all-electric mode. When using the connector Type 2 with 7 kW of power on a full charge takes 2 hours and 45 minutes. According to official characteristics, acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h hybrid SUV spends 6.3 seconds.