Incidentally, for anyone living in areas prone to flooding the Defender has a wading depth of up to 900mm. The thing, apart from size, which struck me most forcibly was the surge of power available in mid-range and how well the car behaved itself on our poorer country roads. But it was so comfortable: excellent seats, strong and sturdy and loads of room for passengers and luggage.

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Lone rangers survey: the problem with вЂsingle car occupancyвЂ™.There are 12v or USB sockets on every row. There are five-or six-seat options and with the second row of seats folded there are up to 2,127 litres of load space in the plug-in version.

It can, Land Rover claims, cover up to 43km on pure-electric driving alone, so you could get zero-emission off-roading (Intelligent All-Wheel Drive) as well as regular routes on the tarmac. However, what a drive it was on the open road. I wonвЂ™t lie to you, I didnвЂ™t enjoy taking it into the city with its narrow lanes of traffic where room for cars, never mind large SUVs, seems to shrink by the week. The first, and to be fair obvious, thing to say is that, despite driving other versions previously, it still daunted me with its sheer physical size and presence. So what is a Defender in Plug-in hybrid (PHEV) guise like to drive?ДЄnd how relevant is it, especially as PHEVs now seem to be running out of favour with the Government, certainly as far as benign taxation policies are concerned? So there is nothing fanciful or far-fetched about the first Defender plug-in hybrid the famous brand has made, but the P400e model is a long way from the legendary rugged and dogged models of yesteryear. It is also the most powerful Defender to date, pumping 404PS, and they claim it returns 85.3mpg (I take that with a grain of salt) with emissions of 74g/km. Well the new plug-in version can do that sort of thing. The wildlings believe that the White Walkers hail from this icy place, but even the northernmost wildling tribes have little if any knowledge of the region - as few who have ventured so far north have ever lived to tell about it, if only due to the deathly cold temperatures.A few years back you would dismiss as fanciful and far-fetched someone predicting Land Rover would be claiming a 0-to-100km time of 5.6 seconds for a Defender вЂ“ yes a Defender. It lies beyond the northern-most wildling kingdom, the land of the Thenns in the northern valleys of the Frostfangs. In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the Land of Always Winter is mostly unexplored. It is likely that it remained frozen and empty, as there are presumably no known living creatures that could survive there.ДЄ map showing the rough location of the Land of Always Winter on the continent of Westeros. Season 8ДЄfter the Great War is over and the Night King and his army are destroyed, it is unknown what became of the Land of Always Winter. Through the ravens, he sees the Army of the Dead: an army of Wights led by the White Walkers and the Night King, traveling south towards Eastwatch-by-the-Sea. Bran later sees the lands in the present day in a subsequent vision, where a massive army of wights and the Night King are stationed.Д«ran wargs into a flight of ravens that fly over the Wall into the Land of Always Winter. Season 6Д«ran Stark and the Three-Eyed Raven see the lands north of the Wall in a prehistoric period of time when they were green and inhabited by the Children of the Forest. There he is transformed into a White Walker by the Night King. Thereafter, the land became an icy tundra, birthplace of the Walkers and their last stronghold to which they retreated after the War for the Dawn.ДЄ White Walker rides through the frozen wasteland of the Land of Always Winter.ДЄ White Walker seizes the last son of the wildling Craster and takes him all the way to the Land of Always Winter. The land was not always so, having once been a lush, forested land inhabited by the Children of the Forest in ancient history which they used to perform rituals and turn a captured human into the first of the White Walkers. These lands are said to lie north of even the Haunted Forest and the Frozen Shore, beyond the Wall. The wildlings controlled some of this territory, but it also extends into subarctic wastelands that are inhospitable to human life. They are so-named as snow falls in these lands even in the warmest summers. The Lands of Always Winter, also called the Land of Always Winter, is a colloquial term referring to the north-most regions of the continent of Westeros. ' I've seen how the land stretches much farther than any man knows, into the Land of Always Winter where the White Walkers came from during the Long Night.' вЂ• Jon Snow

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