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Range Rover features on UK GQ and The Floating Roof

Some nice coverage & history UK GQ for October:

Great stuff on that original Range Rover, just to correct something he wrote:

Its design signatures included a "floating roof" on top of black-painted pillars, and a castellated clam-shell bonnet; these remain in place today.

That full “floating roof” didn’t actually show up until, 1982, it wasn’t even until 1974 that they blacked out the d-pillar. And even in the picture they show in the article, that roof ain’t floating. So while it is a quintessential Range Rover design cue, they didn’t actually add it to the vehicle until it was almost a teenager.

You can see them here in time progression:

Pictures from: http://www.range-rover-classic.com

New top level gallery added – Range Rover LRX

Although we don’t know it’s exact model designation yet, I’m going to call it the RR LRX for now. I’m not crazy about it being a Range Rover model, but I guess they need to give it an up market feel and name so it’s not completely thought of as an LR2 Plus.

And as far as Range Rover cues, after looking back at the LRX concept pics, it’s always had the floating roof, a distinctive Range Rover feature since the early days, maybe that was an early cue to the naming.

There’s only one picture out there now:

Cross-posted to ROVERHAUL.com