I’m sure a lot of thought went into the decision of what colors to announce the 2013 Range Rover with.  It could be some new marketing formula, Gerry McGovern’s preference or maybe just a color roulette wheel (Stornoway Gray was just one position off on the wheel).

Then I remembered, we actually did see the trim against a dark paint color.

First, a close up of the released photo(with highlights):

The paint color kind of hid the fact that, along with the trim strips running across the side and back of the 2013 Range Rover, there is also a strip that runs along the front of the new Range Rover face.  It’s similar to the strip we currently see on the L322 supercharged Range Rover.  The light paint colors really disguise it.

BUT, we were lucky enough to find this spy shot just days before the release.  And here on a black car, that trim strip really pops, along with something else that’s not clear on the released pictures…

Those new front horizontal vents are finished metallically too!

Go check out this great post by verydisco, he edited the 2013 Range Rover press photos, removing some of the more talked about cues.

I have to admit, the 2013 Range Rover is growing on me very quickly and seeing it here without the new trim makes it look too boring!

WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF DOING THIS??

Well done!!!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/motors/4492846/First-pictures-of-4×4-legends-new-Range-Rover.html

The actual news articles are starting to flow, this one embedded the video above, showing that the new 2013 Range Rover still has what it needs to be called a Range Rover

Seeing it with a person in front of it really shows how big those 22" wheels are.

Thanks Ian!

Disclaimer: everything I say in these OCD Range Rover minutia rants could be wrong, I just like guessing.

Going back to the first real interior spy shots taken in China:

I noticed there weren’t any door locks toward the back top of the door card(marked in red).  After seeing the released shots from the other day, we got the first glimpse of the controls(marked in blue).  I didn’t even notice the blue controls until I went back to these pictures after seeing the real ones.  Another thing to note in the final released interior shot, there is no central locking button near the main controls.  This differs from Jaguar, which does still have their central locking buttons on the center console.

I think this is neat and just adds to the cleaner look they seem to have achieved.  The door locks on the previous Range Rover were BMW circa 1997 and although you could press them down to lock the doors, you had to pull the door handle twice to unlock them.

That little lock control panel shows up on the passenger side too.  So what does it all mean?  There are more than a couple of buttons there, are there individual buttons for each door?

I like this picture, although it is a little jarring.