Al Pizzica
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It has been a horrible winter in the NE and the heavy LR4 has been our friend through all of it. I noticed snow mode is not right for all types of snow. Sometimes you need to get going in deep cold snow and sand mode would always do the trick as it uses more power and lets the wheels spin more. (Snow mode lugged the engine so much I wonder if it saves gas on the road. I haven't tried that yet.) But I noticed that sand mode seemed to unlock a lot of power, more than just because of the higher rpms it lets the engine do.
So today at a light in dry weather I put it in sand mode and sport transmission mode and mashed it.
Holy crap. There are the 375 HP they are claiming, everything slid to the back of the car with thump.
I had said, when we had our first 2013 LR4, that there was no way it had 375HP because our 400HP BMW that weighted about the same was light years faster, like 50-100hp faster. Now I know it is locked away in the programming in the name of gas mileage most likely.
Anyway, try sand and sport and let me know if I am crazy to think it is much faster out of the gate.
So today at a light in dry weather I put it in sand mode and sport transmission mode and mashed it.
Holy crap. There are the 375 HP they are claiming, everything slid to the back of the car with thump.
I had said, when we had our first 2013 LR4, that there was no way it had 375HP because our 400HP BMW that weighted about the same was light years faster, like 50-100hp faster. Now I know it is locked away in the programming in the name of gas mileage most likely.
Anyway, try sand and sport and let me know if I am crazy to think it is much faster out of the gate.