Residents of the Rhine, in northern Switzerland, watched 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.
“Over the years, we have introduced game-changing towing technologies to take the stress out of towing for our customers.
VIDEO: Land Rover stuns onlookers by pulling 100-tonne train along bridge