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Land Rover Completes World’s First Hybrid Expedition Along Silk Trail From Solihull To Mumbai

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  • Three Range Rover Diesel Hybrid prototypes complete 10,472 miles along the Silk Trail from Solihull, home of Land Rover, to Mumbai, home of Jaguar Land Rover’s owners, TATA
  • Journey covered 53 days, 13 countries and two continents putting the Range Rover Hybrid prototypes through their final extreme engineering sign-off test
  • Tested to the limits in temperatures from -10 degrees to 43 degrees Celsius at altitudes of 5500 metres and over every type of terrain
  • First foreign-registered cars to drive China’s Xinjiang-Tibet highway
  • Land Rover’s first ever production hybrid to go on sale in first quarter 2014 (selected markets only)

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2013-10-20T11:15:14-04:00October 20, 2013|
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Lots of Range Rover Hybrid Silk Trail Images

 

Land Rover is doing a great job documenting their Silk Trail journey; putting the Range Rover Hybrid through its final engineering sign-off drive. 

Along with the updates Land Rover has been regularly providing, you can follow along through the tweet of a Land Rover UK PR person: https://twitter.com/woowoopops  She posts some behind the scenes images and notes.

The gallery is almost at 100 pictures and growing, here are a few, click through for the rest:

http://www.roverhaul.com/g3t/therangerover/l405-rangerover/Range-Rover-Hybrid/Silk-Trail-2013

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Land Rover Official Press Release:

First Range Rover Hybrid Models Take On Epic ‘Silk Trail’ To India

 

  • Range Rover Hybrid capabilities to be demonstrated on epic ‘Silk Trail 2013’ expedition
  • Trio of prototype hybrids to tackle marathon 9,950 mile (16,000km) endurance drive
  • 53 days final development test drive will cross 12 countries en route to India
  • 1885 miles (3,034km) completed so far.

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2013-09-21T12:15:29-04:00September 21, 2013|
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International version of Build Your Own Range Rover has the new MY2014.5 options, shows Hybrid & mentions LWB

 

The International version of landrover.com usually has interesting options that you don’t see everywhere else.  This time it’s scooped the UK site with 2014.5 details, including the Range Rover Hybrid and mention of the Long Wheel Base (LWB).

In no particular order:

I immediately went to interior options of an Autobiography to see if there was any mention of the new front seat design and there it was:

Semi Aniline Leather Seat Style 24

• 18 Way Drivers / 18 Way Passenger Front Seats
• Front and Rear Climate Seats
• Massage Front Seats with Adjustable Seat Bolsters
• Driver and Passenger Memory
• Rear Bench Seat with Load Through Facility with Rear Power Recline
• 4 Way Rear Seat Power Lumbar
• Passenger Seat Away
• Driver and Front Passenger Upper Seat Articulation
Driver and Front Passenger Upper Seat Articulation is a new feature that allows the driver and front passenger to adjust the upper part of their seats, providing an extra level of comfort and functionality.

The Upper Seat Articulation isn’t available on the non-Autobiography models shown there – hopefully it won’t be Autobiography only.

The next find was within the same section, just incremented to the Style 25 seats, they include the Executive Seating but add this note:

• Rear Executive Class Seating with Rear Power Recline (Long Wheelbase is Extended power recline)

First official mention of the LWB I think!?

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Another option that I haven’t seen before but it could be an international quirk, there are now two types of wood trim packages, the standard one and one labeled as “Extended Veneer Pack”  As the car was for 2013, there was wood on the doors, serving as the outside of the small build in cubby.  On this site, if you choose a non-Autobiography and don’t choose the Extended Veneer Pack, you don’t get that slab of horizontal wood.  It’s similar to how the new Range Rover Sport is.  I really hope this is a quirk.  They should add more wood for the Autobiography, not remove it from the lesser models.

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We also learn that the Range Rover Hybrid gets the 21 inch Six Spoke ‘Style 10’ wheels, described as such:

Designed specifically for a Hybrid engine. These directional wheels enhance the exterior of the vehicle and provide improved performance.

They come in Diamond Turned too, known as Style 11.

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So that’s it for now, go explore and see what else we can find:

http://allnewrangerover.landrover.com/int/en/

2013-09-19T23:56:14-04:00September 20, 2013|
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