High-performance SVO arm turns its attention to the full-sized Range Rover Ever since Jaguar Land Rover opened its Special Vehicle Operations division a couple of years back, it has been obvious that a performance Range Rover was high on its agenda. The question was, how hot would it be?
Land Rover’s new SUV-coupe is just months away from launch and will slot into the model line-up between the Evoque and the Range Rover Sport Land Rover is poised to unveil the most radical-looking Range Rover in history: a mid-sized SUV-coupe designed to lay down the toughest challenge yet to Porsche’s all-conquering Macan and rivals … [Read more…]
LAND Rover is on roll. Its Discovery Sport is selling like hot cakes, and the Range Rover flagship has taken on – and beaten – the Bentley Bentayga, so the pressure is on for the all-new Discovery to continue the success story. There’s certainly no denying the imposing Discovery has some big boots to fill. … [Read more…]
Larger, yet lighter. Prettier, yet rufty-tufty Land Rover’s design HQ is expanding. It has to if it’s to cope with the wave of new product that’s coming over the next few years. Range Rover, Land Rover, Defender: the brand lives in three distinct silos now, having morphed from British Leyland country bumpkin into one of … [Read more…]
Rugged new 4×4 will get even more advanced off-road tech than latest Discovery The new Defender, Land Rover’s forthcoming replacement for the much-lamented 67-year-old icon that finally went out of production late last year, will make use of technology even more modern than that adopted by the recently launched, all-new Discovery when it finally hits … [Read more…]
This is the new, fifth-generation Land Rover Discovery, which was finally unveiled last week at the Paris Motor Show. The popular family SUV gets a new platform and revised engines (including, for the first time, a four-cylinder diesel), and promises to usher in a new level of comfort and fuel efficiency when it reaches UK … [Read more…]
Fifth generation of Land Rover’s large SUV on sale next spring, priced from £43k Land Rover’s all-new, fifth-generation Discovery is faster, lighter, more economical and cleaner-running than the model it replaces, even though it is bigger inside and out. The new model adopts many styling cues from the influential Discovery Vision concept unveiled at the … [Read more…]
INEOS, a multinational chemical company that has been linked with the rebirth of the Land Rover Defender, has admitted that it intends to build a new interpretation of the off-roader, rather than update the old one. It could rival the new Defender, due in 2018. The company has been the subject of intense speculation in … [Read more…]
Describing the Range Rover as the best car in the world is no exaggeration. The sheer breadth of the capabilities of the third-generation Rangie (as it is affectionately known) was truly awesome. Developed by BMW in the late ’90s, it set new SUV standards with air suspension, voice-activated satellite navigation, the heave of a hot … [Read more…]
If ever there was an accidental success story it’s that of the Range Rover Classic. It was introduced in 1970 for the English county set, in the belief that a robust four-wheel drive vehicle that was more comfortable than the utilitarian Land Rover would go down well with those who rode horses, shot birds, hunted, … [Read more…]