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Range Rover Sport Conquers The Empty Quarter Desert – Official PR

New documentary film shows the new Range Rover Sport’s 800km dawn to dusk drive across the Empty Quarter desert – setting the fastest recorded time for the crossing of 10 hours and 22 minutes
Film live on Land Rover’s YouTube channel from today
Features behind-the-scenes footage with off-road racer Moi Torrallardona as he pilots the standard production vehicle to victory
Second installment of the Driven Challenges – follows the new Range Rover Sport setting the production SUV speed record at Pikes Peak back in June

Land Rover has today revealed an exclusive new documentary film charting the new Range Rover Sport’s challenge to complete the fastest recorded crossing of the Empty Quarter desert, which it achieved last month.

The video, which can be seen on Land Rover’s YouTube channel here, tracks the team’s 849km journey from Wadi Adda Wasir in Saudi Arabia to the border of the United Arab Emirates. The team completed the challenge on November 3^rd 2013, finishing in 10 hours and 22 minutes at an average speed of 51.87 mph (81.87 km/h), and the documentary charts the journey from beginning to end.

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Michael2014-02-17T18:48:13-05:00December 20, 2013|

New images of the Range Rover Autobiography Black LWB on location in London

Michael2013-12-18T20:33:56-05:00December 18, 2013|

Land Rover posts new how-to videos for the All-New Range Rover Sport

Land Rover UK posted 33 instructional videos for the various systems of the All-New Range Rover Sport.

This playlist has all 33 ready to watch, they average less then 3 minutes each

Here are a few examples:

I’m not sure I completely get the winter wiper feature – do you have to go through the menu every time? Why not give a shortcut of some kind?

And for my last example below, you’ve got to love how they still have that – “Switch on by touching the climate off softkey”. Wouldn’t you think the button text could just toggle Climate On or Climate Off?

What are the lyrics to that Prince song?

"So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1999 (for in car technology)”

Michael2013-12-04T02:10:52-05:00December 4, 2013|

Land Rover’s USA site has been updated for Range Rover LWB configuration and 2014.5MY, a few bugs remain

Range Rover: Build your vehicle

The pricing and options have been updated for the 2014.5MY, although not all vehicle base prices match the ones they announced the other day – only the LWB models line up with those.

It’s nice to see everything up there now. I noticed a slight positioning bug when choosing interior trim options. As seen below the trim is just slight off. I thought it may have to do with the LWB addition because the trim does look fine when configuring an LWB but it does affect both the front and rear seat.

front-seat-trim

rear-seat-trim

Michael2013-11-22T20:58:02-05:00November 22, 2013|

Long Wheelbase LA Intro brings 2014 Range Rover price rise and variants

While only expecting the limited edition Range Rover Autobiography Black, the LA Auto Show reveal brought us something extra. The Long Wheelbase version won’t just be limited to the top of the line variant It also will be available on the Supercharged and standard Autobiography’s, bringing along a $5000 premium. All other models increase for 2014 by $1000 or so.