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</p><p>Showcasing in a grand manner the new Discovery Sport's towing capabilities and just how much improved and better it's than the Freelander it replaces. Land Rover had the specialists at Aquarius Railroad Technologies fit the three-row sport variant with a set of rail wheels and hooked it up to a train of three luxury carriages totaling 119 tons. Astonishingly rated towing capacity is just 2.5 tonnes, but it pulled some 60 times the vehicle's own weight, or roughly the mass of a Boeing 757 passenger jet. The Discovery Sport powered by the 2.0 liter four-cylinder diesel engine rated at 177BHP and 430Nm of torque that's mated to a nine-speed automatic transmission, and assisted by high-tech gadgetry including semi-autonomous All Terrain Progress Control and Tow Assist systems. Unfortunately, this engine isn't available in India. Land Rover had little trouble pulling the load, moving it down the tracks in Switzerland to cross the River Rhine on the 935-foot-long Hemishofen Bridge.</p><p>British road-to-rail 4x4 conversion specialists Aquarius Railroad Technologies fitted the rail wheels to the otherwise standard Discovery Sport. Managing Director James Platt, said: "For a vehicle of this size to pull a combined weight of 108 tonnes demonstrates real engineering integrity. No modifications were necessary to the drivetrain whatsoever and in tests the Discovery Sport generated more pull than our road-rail Defender, which is remarkable."<br></p><p>The stunt was something of a re-creation of the feat the company accomplished in 1989 when the first-generation Discovery pulled a train of cars in Plymouth, UK. In India, it's available with a 2.2 liter diesel engine in two tunes. One produces power of 148 BHP@4000 RPM with torque of 400Nm@1750 RPM while the other with 188 BHP@3500RPM and torque of 420 Nm@1750 RPM. The latter is available only in the top-end variant, HSE Luxury. Both the engines are mated to a 9-speed ZF automatic transmission and Land Rover's legendary AWD/4WD system.  <br><br></p><p>What’s more surprising is that Discovery Sport is least powered among its whole family of Land Rover and Range Rover range. While Evoque produces power of 189BHP@5200 RPM with torque of 420Nm@1750 RPM which is standard across all variants; the mighty Range Rover Sport 5.0L V8 SVR generates 547BHP@6000-6500 RPM with earth turning 680Nm@2500-5500 RPM torque.</p><p></p>