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The QX30 is ideal for any pleasure drive
A DRIVE OF
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AN INSPIRING JOURNEY THROUGH THE WEALD OF KENT AND EAST SUSSEX PROVIDES STUNNING SCENERY , AMAZING ARCHITECTURE AND AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY TO PUT THE NEW INFINITI QX30 CROSSOVER THROUGH ITS PACES . BY MARTIN GURDON
It ’ s easy to take where you live for granted . My home is in the Weald of Kent and , I ’ ve tended to whistle down its lanes and byways without giving them the attention they deserve .
Marden has a real village feel
Some are great driving roads , and I began to pleasantly pipe dream about using familiar byways to make a journey for pleasure rather than necessity . I ’ d take a circular route that would be
For this to work I needed an interesting car . So
lend me a British-made and engineered QX30 , with four-wheel-drive , seven-speed transmission and a willing 2.0 diesel engine , I ’ d found my car , and a dream became a reality .
Sussex coastal town of Rye , and I decided to begin and end the end the journey in the pretty village of West Farleigh . To reach it , I climbed out of Maidstone on the A26 Tonbridge Road .
upward curve . About four miles later I swung left onto the B2163 and headed for the 14th-Century Teston Bridge , a single-lane stone structure .
I then passed Teston Country Park , a lovely public space of grassland and meadows . The road wriggled through dense trees as I wound into West Farleigh , an attractive place where the locals must have strong ankles , as it ’ s on a slope .
Pulling over , I quickly programmed the QX30 ’ s sat nav system , then headed into the sort of would be Yalding . The often-unmarked lanes I took were frequently
hedgerows and trees . Soon , I dropped down into Yalding , which has of negotiating high-hedged lanes and I reached
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