Trail & error
IT’S WHEN I become stuck in the mud, all four wheels turning but the car not moving, that I start to question my recent life choices. I’m not talking about forgetting my mother’s birthday (although that was a disaster) or buying too much milk but rather taking an F-PACE along Rudland Rigg, one of the longest green lanes in UK. Why did I not test the size of the boot when visiting an expensive hotel in the South of France instead?
But in defence of my choice, following the F-PACE’s launch in 2016 I’ve taken the car across the UK and through several parts of Europe but the one place I’ve never driven it is off-road. With the model now seven years old and recently refreshed – which includes a plug-in hybrid option – it’s time to change that. Rudland Rigg starts at a nondescript corner a
