Thursday, 25 April 2013

SEAT Leon: it's not an off-roader


Bit of an embarrassing situation last night when picking my son up from Cubs. Rather than being in the village hall they were out at a local campsite lighting fires, and I turned up to collect him the SEAT Leon I’m driving at the moment. Access is via a narrow track and when a car was coming the other way I pulled off to the side to allow it to come through. I failed to spot the boggy area in the verge, the front wheels dug in and I couldn’t get out. Ten minutes later, a fellow dad with a Land Rover Freelander and a tow-rope, and everything was fine again. But not before several others had got out their cameraphones to capture my humiliation for posterity. The stick I’ve taken in the last 12 hours…

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