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)
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
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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.
