2009 July

2010 Range Rover Wood Trim Options

The three new wood trim options below are new to the U.S. Autobiography Model, the UK and ROW have had them for a while, now if we could just get the “Colourway” options here for the two tone leathers.

2010 Range Rover – No Complimentary Scheduled Maintenance after 15K Miles

Just looking over the press release on the 2010 Range Rover and noticed this note:

Complimentary Scheduled Maintenance on the first service at 15,000 miles

With nothing beyond that, it looks like the belt tightening is starting to show.

2010 Range Rover – 0-60’s

PERFORMANCE

NATURALLY ASPIRATED

0-60 mph: 7.2 sec

0-100 kph (0-62 mph): 7.6 sec

Maximum speed: 130 mph (210 km/h)

EPA: TBD mpg city/highway

SUPERCHARGED

0-60 mph: 5.9 sec

0-100 kph (0-62 mph): 6.2 sec

Maximum speed: 140 mph (225 km/h)

EPA: TBD mpg city/highway

2010 Range Rover Pricing Revealed in Reviews

Both Motortrend & Automobile have their 2010 Range Rover reviews up with pricing:

HSE: $79,275

Supercharged: $95,125

And they quote the Autobiography package as: $14,500

Motortrend Review

Automobile Review

2010 Range Rover – Updated interior pictures

Just some shots from the LR UK Range Rover site:

2010 Range Rover – Why only 6 Sirius-XM presets per page?

What I am describing is purely from what I’ve found looking at the 2010 owner’s manual, so I can’t say I am 100% correct until I actually try the system personally.

This is more of a nit-pick then anything else, but it’s an obvious one that also affects the 2006-2009 Range Rover.  Under the FM Radio screen, there are 9 station presets, and I understand screen real estate is at a premium, but take a look at this FM radio screen shot:

You can see the 9 presets along with the other necessary functions keys for FM radio.

Now here’s the Sirius-XM Satellite radio screen(disregard that arrow):

By adding in the Category button, we lose an entire row of presets, why couldn’t they just move the Category button to where the Autostore button is on the FM Radio.  The button looks like it would be the same exact size and would return that row to preset use.  This all seems very obvious since there’s a lot of white space on the SAT radio screen.

I had hoped with this higher res screen, they would put more thought into the design.  I wonder if this new 2010 screen also completely locks out the screen to display that it’s lost satellite signal, but don’t get me started on that one.

2010 Range Rover – Advanced Emergency Brake Assist and Forward Alert

Here’s a real description of the new Advanced Emergency Brake Assist and Forward Alert – sounds cool:

Advanced Emergency Brake Assist and Forward Alert

Active safety features in the new 2010 Range Rover include a number of advanced braking aids, working in combination, for that familiar sense of wellbeing, security and composure.

The new Advanced Emergency Brake Assist (AEBA) available with Adaptive Cruise Control technology provides outstanding control when sudden braking is needed. The new Forward Alert system detects if the vehicle in front is decelerating and provides a visual and audible warning to the driver if they fail to take appropriate action.

Should an impact become unavoidable, Forward Alert will trigger the AEBA function. Forward Alert feeds advanced information to the AEBA, enabling full ABS braking to be achieved at typically half to two-thirds of the time of normal emergency brake assist system.

The system provides three-stage assistance to help mitigate the effects of an impending collision:
1. Sufficient pressure is applied between the brake pads and the discs, meaning any driver intervention has a more immediate impact
2. Light braking pressure is automatically applied if no braking has commenced
3. If the system senses driver emergency braking, pressure is immediately increased to achieve full ABS braking.

2010 Range Rover – TFT Instrument Panel Videos

Here are a couple of vids of the new virtual instrument cluster – I never thought it would actually be so animated:

2010 Range Rover – Virtual Instrument Panel’s ‘torchlight’

In this shot you can better see the “torchlight” feature around the ends of the needles in the speedo & tach – as Land Rover writes; “highlights only the essential information”

It will be interesting to see how this evolves and we get to see how great that TFT can be.

New Range Rover Autobiography shots from LR-UK

Here are a few more interesting shots from the Land Rover UK Site, I recommend anyone interested checking out the site, which has been updated for the 2010 Range Rover.

Cool headrests, like an airplane seat.

A further look at the leather headliner in the Autobiography package along with the rear seat mirrors.