Motorsport

Deep mud, Big smiles!

Let’s be honest here – the Land Rover Defender is God-awful on the road. But off it, it is almost unstoppable! In the latest video from XCAR, they check out the individuals who spend their time generally covered in mud competing in the offroad trials.

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The Rubicon Trail: Day Three

The start of Day Three of our Rubicon adventure blurs rather fuzzily into the end of Day Two, thanks largely to a feisty little Canadian beverage called “Fireball”. A cinnamon whisky that just keeps on giving, it proves rather too easy to drink and the common sense that suggests an early night is soon consumed […]

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The Rubicon Trail: Day Two (part 2)

The first thing that surprises you about the Rubicon Trail is the fact that, during the weekend it is like a main highway, with a simply staggering amount of traffic going in both directions. These are without exception highly modified beasts and they range from beaten, rusting hulks on massively hiked suspension through to completely […]

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The Rubicon Trail: Day Two (part 1)

  Sweet Jesus, Cletus, for people who consume so much coffee, they really do struggle to make a halfway decent cup of the stuff in America. Quantity is no problem, but quality is a rare commodity in the US of A. While requesting “a bucket of your finest coffee-flavoured swill” may not seem like the […]

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The Rubicon Trail: Day One

The first day of our great off-road adventure was almost the exact opposite of what you would think of when you tell people you are heading into the wilds of the Sierra Nevada in Jeeps to traverse the most legendary off-road track of them all. There was no dust, no rocks, no bears. The sounds […]

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