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first drive
discovery Kevin Hackett takes on the harsh, unforgiving landscapes of Iceland at the wheel of Land Rover’s new Discovery Sport.
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f this goes wrong I will, quite literally, be in deep water – frigid, fast flowing and potentially death-dealing deep water. I’m not going to pretend otherwise, my derriere has got the jitters and I’m tensing far too many muscles than is good for someone trying to drive a car through an Icelandic river that’s flowing like the clappers. White stuff is everywhere – this is Iceland in
the winter and one of the most extreme climates on the planet – and the thundering waters provide at least some visual relief, cutting an enormous, wiggling slice through the surrounding snowcovered tundra. But I cannot for a second avert my eyes from the task at hand. Whenever you do anything unusual in a car, it almost always feels more dramatic inside the cabin than it looks from outside. And so it was, as
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