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2011.5 Model Year Range Rover gets new leather headliner options #rangerover

This is interesting, well interesting to me at least…

Not sure how new this is to the UK Range Rover site, but while I was checking it, as I do from time to time, there was a new item listed – “Headlining”.  In the US, the only leather headliner option is for the Range Rover Autobiography package and with that I believe there are really only two colors.

For the UK listing it appears to be available across the entire range, from the lowly Vogue to the range topping Autobiography

Vogue:

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Autobiography:

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Price List:

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2011-07-26T09:50:00-04:00July 26, 2011|
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Land Rover video shows Range Rover LCD IP doing more then it currently does. #rangerover

When I did my first rant on the TFT-LCD Instrument Panel on the 2010+ Range Rover a few weeks back, my major complaint was the lack of additional functionality that we could get if they’d add in music and/or nav info in that center between the “gauges” area.  While checking out other videos from yesterday’s post on the Jaguar Land Rover Careers YouTube Channel, I found this Range Rover – Go Beyond video:

 

And right about 20 seconds in, we see this:

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Right there, between the gauges, in the normally completely blank area on my North American spec 2011 Range Rover – we see audio system info.

So I ask, Land Rover, Please!  Or at least, Why?

2011-03-08T22:55:15-05:00March 11, 2011|
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What a difference a bend makes… #rangerover

I’ve had what I thought was an odd and isolated issue with the Surround Camera System in my 2011 Range Rover – from time to time and mostly at night, the reverse camera will go completely blue.

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I’ve also seen it on the surround cameras too.  So I went to my favorite Range Rover Forums (http://rangerovers.net/forum/) and did a search.  Apparently it’s not as isolated as I thought and this post from a Range Rover Sport owner, aptly named it the Blue Screen of Death.  He even made a video:

 

In that post there is some great information and real Land Rover documentation on the issue.  The thing that really got me after reading everything is how much of an impact excessively tight cable bends can have on this system.  Here are some examples:

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I do completely realize that there are tolerances to everything and the cabling used here must not be the most resilient.  It’s just a little disappointing from a company that talks about the engineering that went into their iPod interface cable:

The dedicated iPod®/iPhone® point was designed with Apple, Inc. exclusively for Land Rover, to ensure the device won’t come loose from the socket, even in extreme driving conditions. iPod® and iPhone® are trademarks of Apple, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

http://www.landrover.com/us/en/rr/range-rover/explore/hse/

Sorry, just another rant and I will continue to say, my current Range Rover configuration has to literally be one of the best vehicles currently on the road – see even after all that I still love you Land Rover.

2011-03-10T09:14:00-05:00March 10, 2011|
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2011 Range Rover – Adaptive Cruise Control – Automated Deceleration #rangerover

Still going through and figuring out the various systems in the 2011 Range Rover – while testing the Adaptive Cruise Control last night, I noticed it did a lot more braking then I expected.  So tonight I rigged up my iPhone to record while hanging around my neck and gave the system another test.

There’s nothing quite like a vehicle braking itself, and braking quite hard at that.  My foot was just resting on the brake pedal the entire time, but don’t try this at home.

2011-03-03T09:39:00-05:00March 3, 2011|
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2011 Range Rover TPMS System in Action–indicates which tire is below pressure #rangerover

I was playing around with the Adaptive Cruise Control tonight on the 2011 Range Rover, I’ll try to post about that soon – anyway on one of the rapid automated decelerations, a Tire Pressure warning popped up.  The interesting thing here was that it actually indicated which tire was low, in my previous 2008 Range Rover, it was just a single indicator, it was up to you to find the tire at fault.  I hadn’t seen this mentioned in the owner’s manual so, here’s what it looks like – sorry for the shaky-cam picture.

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2011-03-01T23:15:38-05:00March 1, 2011|
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