It’s reported Land Rover are planning on making a performance version of the Range Rover Evoque – the Range Rover Evoque Sport? – with 300bhp. The new Range Rover Evoque is a proper success story for Land Rover. They seem to be right on the Zeitgeist with their good-looking little Range Rover – even at premium prices. […]
Range Rover Evoque heads for the Dakar Rally
The British Excite Rally Raid Team will run the new Range Rover Evoque in the world’s toughest car competition – the Dakar Rally. Land Rover are pretty chuffed with the way the new Range Rover Evoque has been received; feedback from the trade is hugely positive and buyers are queueing up to grab the Evoque […]
Jaguar Land Rover to build new £400m Engine Plant in Wolverhampton
Jaguar Land Rover are expected to announce a new £400 million Plant is to be built at the i54 Development in Wolverhampton. Ready in 2013, it will create 2,000 jobs. Update 19th September: Jaguar has now confirmed our story, although the cost is expected to be £335 million and the number of new jobs 750. […]
Land Rover DC100 Sport – it’s the Sporty new Defender
Land Rover has revealed a cool and sporty version of the new Land Rover Defender. The DC100 Sport is an open ‘Speedster’ Defender. It helps to have a good dose of ‘cool’ when you launch a new car. And Land Rover have a head start with the iconic Defender, which is ‘Cool’ by default. But they’ve gone […]
2013 Range Rover caught on video in Germany
Land Rover are continuing testing of the 2013 Range Rover, and we have video of the new Range Rover on and around the Nurburgring. Just last month we had spy shots of the new Range Rover – due as a 2013 car – as it ploughed round roads in the Midlands. And now we can […]
New Land Rover Defender previewed in DC100 Concept
Land Rover previews the next Generation Land Rover defender with the DC100 Concept which will debut at Frankfurt. What to do with the Land Rover Defender is something which has been taxing minds at LR for some time. And the Land Rover DC100 Concept – heading to Frankfurt – is the first stab at publicly […]
Land Rover Defender by Vilner: The Landie gets a touch of posh
Bulgarian tuner Vilner has taken the Land Rover Defender and added a few luxuries – like all new interior and high-end infotainment. Anyone who has ever driven a Land Rover Defender will know that home comforts are not exactly at the top of LR’s list of priorities; spartan necessity probably best describes the interior fittings. But not after […]
2012 Land Rover Defender gets new diesel
Land Rover has given the Defender a new engine for 2012. The new 2.2 litre engine is as powerful as the outgoing 2.4 litre, but much cleaner. It’s hard to decide what to do with a motoring icon icon like the Land Rover Defender. Do you keep on evolving it or do you have a radical re-think? All that’s up for […]
New Land Rover Concept at Frankfurt – Project Icon lives?
It’s being reported that Land Rover are taking a Concept of a future replacement Land Rover Defender to the Frankfurt Motor Show. Last week AE ran a report that suggested Land Rover were considering dumping the iconic Defender from their range as it was perhaps too difficult to find a cost-effective way to update it. […]
Tata & JLR to build their own engines. But you already knew that.
Tata has revealed in their annual statement that they are viewing a joint venture with Jaguar Land Rover to build engines. But you knew that already. The wires today seem to be full of the ‘news’ that Tata and Jaguar Land Rover are considering building their own engines. Really? The report of this ‘Breaking News’ […]