Watch A Range Rover Sport P400e Attempt An Insane 999-Step Climb

Sit back and strap your jaw to your face in case it falls off, because you're about to see one of the most incredible climbs made by any factory-standard off-roader
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Jaguar Land Rover likes a good PR stunt. Usually they’re bloody good ones, too, and it’s our very great pleasure to bring you yet another, involving 99 hairpins just metres from cliff edges, and a brain-freezing attempt to drive up the 999 steps on China’s famous Tianmen Mountain, towards the stunning rock arch called Heaven’s Gate.

Range Rover, as we told you late last year, is launching a plug-in hybrid version of the Sport called the P400e. It has a 2.0-litre, four-cylinder turbo with a fruity exhaust, bolstered by an 85kW electric motor and good for a handy 395bhp overall. It can also climb like Sylvester Stallone in Cliffhanger, when you put Jaguar Racing’s Ho-Pin Tung behind the wheel.

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To mark the start of the Range Rover Sport P400e’s official roll-out, Land Rover decided to attempt to climb the fearsome hairpin-stuffed Tarmac snake that climbs the legendary mountain, before driving a technically showroom-standard P400e (it has optional off-road tyres) up one of the world’s longest and most picturesque flights of steps.

We don’t want to spoil the tension for you. We’d just like to tell you this video is well worth a few minutes of your time. Yes, there are safety precautions and yes, the talk of certain death is slightly overplayed as a result, but the sight of a fetching red Range Rover Sport, mountain-goating its way up stone steps that reach an angle of 45 degrees in places, is a mighty thing to behold. Enjoy!

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Comments

Pierce Tolar

Several small steps for Land Rover, One giant leap for off-road kind

02/12/2018 - 02:19 |
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Anonymous

pretty sure my 16 year old subaru could do that👍🏼

02/12/2018 - 02:20 |
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The Nige

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Exactly my thoughts watching this week’s Grand Tour…

02/12/2018 - 02:54 |
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Emil Klotz

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

I’d like to see that

02/13/2018 - 23:04 |
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Vincent Lin

But Audi with the ski slope…

02/12/2018 - 02:36 |
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RIP_Fish

How’d they get it back down?

02/12/2018 - 02:39 |
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Cmon, it’s obvious, they used a sky hook.

02/12/2018 - 09:36 |
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Ewan23 (The Scottish guy)

Matt it’s nearly 3am lol 😂, what a random time to post this, but oh well.

02/12/2018 - 02:42 |
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It was lunch when he posted this

02/12/2018 - 06:57 |
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Anonymous

Because of course.

02/12/2018 - 03:59 |
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Rahul 1

Amazing!!! Like a mighty husky leaping forward in bravery…I like it when stuff like this go viral and should be going viral

02/12/2018 - 04:02 |
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DJ N

Well, if anyone asks if vehicles can drive up very steep stairs, I now have something to show them!

02/12/2018 - 04:21 |
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DaReelTuna

Pff…45 degrees?

02/12/2018 - 05:07 |
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Beat me to it

02/12/2018 - 14:13 |
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I call it comment of the week contender!

02/12/2018 - 16:44 |
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That was with a winch

02/13/2018 - 23:04 |
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Davino291103

Too late junior

02/12/2018 - 05:36 |
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