Land Rover has built seven electric Defenders to act as research vehicles for EVs off-road. All seven Defender EVs will be at Geneva 2013. [nggallery id=1415 template=customlinks] No, this isn’t an electric version of the Land Rover Defender DC100 – Land Rover’s first stab at a replacement for the iconic Defender – and nor is it a […]
Range Rover Evoque gets 9-Speed auto ‘box
Land Rover are to fit a new 9-speed automatic gearbox from ZF to the 2014 Range Rover Evoque. Will show at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. There are some of us old enough to remember cars that had three-speed ‘boxes, and it only seems five minutes since five-speed manual ‘boxes became the norm. But now […]
New Range Rover Sport set to debut at New York Auto Show
It looks like the 2014 Range Rover Sport – the Sporty take on the new 2013 Range Rover – will debut in a month’s time at the New York Auto Show. The new Range Rover debuted at last year’s Paris Motor Show, and we had expected Land Rover to debut its sporty sibling – the new Range […]
New Range Rover to get 3.0 V6 Supercharged engine for 2014
The new Range Rover is to get the new 3.0 litre Supercharged engine in place of the naturally aspirated 5.0 litre in the U.S. for the 2014 model. [nggallery id=1178 template=customlinks] The new Range Rover is already sold out in the U.S. – for at least the next six months – so Land Rover dealers […]
Jaguar Land Rover sales up 32% in January 2013
Jaguar Land Rover sales continue to power ahead, with sales up 32 per cent in January 2013 – 31 per cent up for Land Rover and 40 per cent for Jaguar. We’ve got used to ever increasing sales from both Jaguar and Land Rover in recent years, and 2013 has started for JLR in the […]
New Range Rover SOLD OUT in U.S.
It seems the 2013 Range Rover is proving so popular that Range Rover customers in the U.S. will have to wait up to a year for their cars. [nggallery id=1178 template=customlinks] Shortly after the new Range Rover debuted officially in September, we reported that several UK Land Rover dealers were reporting their entire Range Rover […]
New 2014 Range Rover Sport testing in Mojave Desert (video)
We have video of the new 2014 Range Rover Sport out testing in the Mojave Desert ahead of a likely reveal at Frankfurt 2013. It’s been six months since we last had spy video of the 2014 Range Rover Sport out testing, and now it’s been caught again in the U.S. as Land Rover continue […]
2013 Range Rover deliveries start at JLR’s new Handover Centre
The first UK deliveries of the 2013 Range Rover have taken place at Jaguar Land Rover’s all new Handover Centre in Solihull. [nggallery id=1377 template=customlinks] The new Range Rover got its official reveal at last year’s Paris Motor Show and is finally finding its way in to the hands of UK customers, with the first 2013 Range […]
Jaguar XF CKD assembly starts in India
Jaguar Land Rover has started assembling the Jaguar XF at its plant in Pune, India, in a move to reduce XF retail prices in India. [nggallery id=963 template=customlinks] It’s over a year since we reported that Jaguar Land Rover were planning to assemble the Jaguar XF and Range Rover Evoque at their plant in Pune, India, in a move […]
Land Rover backed Race2Recovery team finishes Dakar Rally
The Race2Recovery Rally team – a group of disabled servicemen backed by Land Rover – has become the first disabled team to finish the Dakar Rally. Land Rover may have backed the Race2Recovery team in the Dakar Rally, but the real triumph is that of the team’s members as they become the first disabled team to complete the gruelling […]