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’ […]
2013 Range Rover Spied
We have a spy photo of the 2013 Range Rover, giving us a good idea of the changes Land Rover are making to their range-topping vehicle for the next generation. There’s been no real shortage of Range Rovers with camouflage paint jobs and bits of plastic bolted on running around the Midlands. But until now […]
2012 Range Rover Sport tweaks. But where’s the quicker TDV6?
Land Rover has given the 2012 Range Rover Sport similar updates for 2012 to those the Discovery 4 received. But where’s the quicker TDV6? Yesterday we has raft of itsy-bitsy little changes to the 2012 Disco to make it just that little bit better than it already is. And make you question the sanity of forking out […]
2012 Land Rover Discovery 4 tweaks revealed
Land Rover has revealed a raft of changes for the 2012 Discovery 4, with more power, new gearbox and better economy. Available from October 2011 You’ve got to go forward, or you’re already going back. Or so the saying goes. Which is no doubt why Land Rover has managed to send us a 2,750 word press release to […]
Range Rover Evoque production starts
The first production Range Rover Evoque has rolled off the Land Rover line at Halewood. Land Rover already has 18,000 advance orders for the Evoque. You could be forgiven for thinking that the Range Rover Evoque was already in production. But you’d be wrong. The apparent plethora of Evoques which have turned up at every car event […]
Land Rover start Freelander assembly in India – Engine Plant to follow?
JLR has opened an assembly plant in Pune, India to assemble UK produced Freelander 2 CKD kits. And it seems this could be followed by a new engine plant in Pune We reported last year that Land Rover were going to start building Freelanders in India this year. Well, bolting them together from CKD (Complete Knock Down) imported […]
Jaguar Land Rover made £1 billion last year
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has posted profits of £1 billion on sales of £10 billion, with record monthly sales in March 2011. Who’d have believed it just a year or two ago? Jaguar Land Rover has reported a turnover for the year to the end of March 2011 of £9.9 billion and has made a […]