I know this is a few weeks old, but here are the charts – again, nice to see Land Rover at the top of a JDP survery.

I still have huge backlog of old print ads, brochures and more that I just never posted.  I’ll start putting them up over the next few weeks.  To start with here are two new galleries:

Land Rover Series – Brochures & Sales Material

Range Rover Classic  – Brochures, Sales & Tech Material

Here are a bunch of links I’ve been collecting – it’s probably best to just post them all at once.

Tata Motors to assemble Land Rover Freelander at MB former facility

New Range Rovers, Jaguar XF On Aluminum Crash Diet Program

Jaguar/Land Rover: Premium Lightweight Architecture (PLA)

Q-VR Range Rover

Range Rover – old meets new

Ford teases Explorer in pic of new crossover’s chief engineer

Check out what these guys are doing to a Defender 110 – Warthog

Just created a Twitter account @OVALNEWS

It will just mirror the posts here and pull in tweets from other Land Rover Twitterers.

Just something I noticed – Land Rover has been using obviously blank space/uneven spacing in a few different places.

Here’s the updated Terrain Response controls for the the coming 2011 Range Rover – why didn’t they just center the icons – is the Range Rover getting the Sport’s Dynamic Response mode?  Just seems odd to be so off-center.

Then on the latest iteration of the Land Rover US Website – the home page also has a glaring blank spot.

I realize there isn’t a vehicle available here to fit in there just yet, but why not do a better redesign and spread the items across evenly?  All they did was take the UK layout and remove the Defender.  I don’t think it would really be that difficult/cost that much to do a slight redesign for one of their biggest markets.

I was sorry to hear about the death of Charles Spencer “Spen” King, he really was the father of the Range Rover and I’m not sure what we’d have today if it wasn’t for his insight & vision.

http://thestar.blogs.com/kenzie/2010/06/charles-spencer-spen-king-1925-2010-.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/business/04king.html?_r=1&src=busln

Here’s his namesake model, the Range Rover CSK – one of the coolest specials ever done, a very late model 2-door with all the bells & whistles.

It’s bit much for me as a whole, but there are some nice styling cues, gills are my favorite – there will only be 700 made – no pricing or availability info yet.

So it’s here at least in the UK – June 17th – the 40th Anniversary of the Range Rover and the day they lift the embargo on the 2011 Range Rover info.

New options, a Limited Edition model & more – I’ll try to get a bunch of info up shortly.

Here’s something to start with and along with that picture they state:

For 2011, paddle-shift is standard on 5.0-litre Supercharged and an option on 5.0-litre Naturally Aspirated vehicles

And in this shot you can see that down-shift paddle peaking through, is it just me or are there a ridiculous amount of buttons in this cropped shot:

From carmagazine.co.uk – the first shot of what they are calling the 40th Anniversary Special Edition.  These milestone special editions are nothing new, can’t wait to get some more details – maybe we’ll hear something on June 17th – the official 40th Anniversary date.

Check out those exhausts!!  And I hope the unique trimmings they mention are more then just new types of wood trim.

It’s great to see all these pics together.  I love the YVB153H, rough interior, no floating roof yet.  And that interior really is rough, rusty screws & cracking vinyl.  I hope someone really does drive around from time to time and it doesn’t just sit in the garage.

Enjoy: