In part 2 of our review and Road Test of the 2011 MY 4.4 litre Diesel Range Rover, we look at the improvements Land Rover has made to their range topper. As we said when we reviewed the 3.6 Range Rover recently, you really can’t compare the Range Rover to anything else, and certainly not […]
Millionth Range Rover presented to Jezza for Help for Heroes
Land Rover’s MD Phil Popham has presented the millionth Range Rover to Jeremy Clarkson to auction for the Help for Heroes Charity. It’s a very large number of Range Rovers, 1,000,000. Although you do have to remember that is a production number over a forty year period. Still, long time or not it’s a milestone […]
Range Rover 3.6 TDV8 Review & Road Test (2010) Part 2
In part 2 of our review and road test of the Range Rover TDV8 Autobiography, we examine why the Range Rover is much greater than the sum of its parts. After 40 years of Range Rover, buyers know that the Range Rover stands alone. There is no other car that can do Grouse Moor and […]
Range Rover 3.6 TDV8 Review & Road Test (2010)
We have the Range Rover 3.6 TDV8 Autobiography for a week to review and road test. Is it still the best, or is the Range Rover past its best? The Range Rover – as most of you already know from the celebrations Land Rover had in June – is forty years old this year. Which […]
Range Rover at 40 press release
ICONIC RANGE ROVER TURNS 40 The Range Rover celebrates its 40th birthday on 17 June 2010 The Range Rover was the world’s first fully capable luxury 4×4 There have been three generations of Range Rover: the original (Classic) in 1970, second-generation (P38a) in 1994 and third-generation (L322) in 2001 Second model line – Range Rover […]
Range Rover turns 40 +video
Land Rover are celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Range Rover and have sent us a ’40 Years of Range Rover’ video and a lengthy press release. Whatever you may think of the Range Rover, it is a motoring icon. Iconic is bandied around at the drop of a hat these days, but the original […]
Land Rover sales success means more jobs
Land Rover are recruiting 275 new workers at Solihull – an increase of 5.5% in the workforce – to cope with a bulging order book. It’s less than a year since we were busy reporting that Jaguar Land Rover were expecting to have to make some pretty severe job cuts. Tata had seen losses of […]
Range Rover Sport TDV8 – Kahn RS300
The Kahn RS300 is a Cosworth fettled Range Rover Sport with added bling and more horses for an extra £21k. Worth the price? Land Rover have made some very good changes to the 2010 versions of their cars. Across the range – especially the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport – the changes have made […]
Land Rover sales up 89 per cent
Land Rover has posted impressive sales figures for October with sales up by 89% in comparison to October 2008. Land Rover has suffered really badly from both the current economic meltdown and the world’s obsession with all things ‘Eco’. The big 4x4s produced by Land Rover seem to have been the main target of the […]
Range Rover Sport by Prestige – No, thanks.
UK tuner Prestige has launched a tarted Range Rover Sport with new bumpers, louvres and wheel arch extensions. The ultimate overkill body kit for the RRS. When I bought a Cayenne a few years ago I weighed it up against the other options. Eventually I was left with a short-list of just two cars – […]