A September post on fullfatrr.com, outed the Holland & Holland Range Rover well in advance of yesterdays official reveal.  Within that post was some info from a JLR contractor’s LinkedIn page.  LinkedIn has been a great source of this type of info for a long time.  I’ve posted a few times in the past using info from those pages – specifically about the InControl system designers.

And now we get some new confirmed model numbers and info that (Jaguar) Land Rover nerds will love – nothing secret just interesting and one search leads to another…  And this info is all out there, so it’s obviously not news in the urgent sense but this post lets me put it all in one place.

L462 is the next Discovery / L663 is the next Defender

From that post:

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BAK Automotive Development Limited

May 2014 – Present (7 months)Jaguar Land Rover – Gaydon

Working specifically within the Engineered to Order Department (ETO), which has recently been renamed SVO department, or Special Vehicle Operations.
I will be working on the design, development and project management of special vehicle models, concentrating on, exterior and interior trim parts, across all special variants of the Jaguar and Land Rover models, which will include parts such as unique front and rear bumpers and valances, sculptured rocker panels, sports trims, side rails, mud flaps and boot lid spoilers.
I am currently working on the following vehicle line ups:-
L494 – Range Rover Sport SVR 15.5MY
Wheel Arch Extensions – SPATS
Bumper / Fender Bracket
L405 – Range Rover Holland and Holland 16MY
Bespoke Front Grille
L462 – Discovery 17MY
Door Rubbing Strips
L663 – Defender 17MY
RMDV2 Input
Project 7 – 16MY
Water Management – Drain Bag
"B" Pillar Seals
Modified Door Window Regulators
I also work closely with the supply chain to deliver the above items efficiently and to build schedule.

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Then another search leads to a document that should sit behind a secure webpage but lucky for us it doesn’t.

The Jaguar and Land Rover STA Guideline: Programme What to Where submission requirements, that lists all of the upcoming models for suppliers submissions to JLR.  The document is from May 2014.  While it is publicly accessible I’m not going to link to it directly nor post all of the contents of the document, but here’s the interesting bits:

I’ll close this out with a few more interesting random LinkedIn Experience posts, my italics are for emphasis:

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PMST Leader Discovery 3 & Range Rover Sport

Land Rover

January 2000 – December 2002 (3 years)gaydon, england

Bonnet and fender PMST leader for the T5 platform that included a Defender replacement which didn’t continue and the Discovery 3 and the original Range Rover Sport.

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On the item below it’s the “C” at the end of the L538 that makes it interesting.  The L538 is the Range Rover Evoque and the C indicates the convertible model.  They first showed it back in 2012 but from the various L538C posts, it appears the engineers are still working on it.

Lead DM Engineer

Jaguar Land Rover

April 2013 – Present (1 year 8 months)

D8 Platform:
L550
L538C

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This one was dated July 2013 – Present and adds even more model numbers and model years.  The X761 is the Jaguar SUV.  The L560 may be the all new Range Rover model that Gerry McGovern dropped hints about a few weeks ago.  And except for the X760, the other Jaguar models are all future products.

Programmes involved:
X760 16MY/17MY
X260 16MY/17MY
X261 17MY
X761 17MY
L560 18MY
X360 18MY

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Way too much text, done.