Hidden in plain sight since February 9: http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/topic156426.html
I wonder if these glossy new steering wheel controls are touch sensitive with haptics?
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All the same stuff will be written everywhere, and for consistency the full PR details will be at the bottom of the post.
Here’s what I found more interesting…
InControl Touch Pro has something new going on and the brightly lit controls below it also seem new and remind me of the touch controls in the new Panamera
Then there’s the door handles, have they gone Tesla and Aston Martin and made them flush with the body?
The gauges get a new more colorful middle display – maybe album art? Steering wheel also gets new glossy controls.
INTRODUCING RANGE ROVER VELAR
· A new addition to the Range Rover family, filling the white space between the Range Rover Evoque and the Range Rover Sport
· Land Rover reaffirms its position as the world’s leading SUV brand
· From a bloodline like no other, Velar name is derived from the original Range Rover prototypes of 1969
· World premiere on 1 March 2017
Whitley, UK, 22 February 2017 – The luxury SUV was created in 1970 when Land Rover launched the original Range Rover. Almost half a century later that spirit of innovation continues with the introduction of the fourth member of the Range Rover family, to be unveiled on 1 March 2017.
Elegant simplicity, a visually reductive approach and pioneering consumer technology are the hallmarks of the new Range Rover Velar.
Land Rover Chief Design Officer, Gerry McGovern, said: “We call the Velar the avant garde Range Rover. It brings a new dimension of glamour, modernity and elegance to the brand. The Range Rover Velar changes everything.”
Refined for every occasion, for every terrain, Velar uses unique sustainable materials and advanced engineering to continue Land Rover’s drive to go Above and Beyond.
The origin of the Velar name (pronounced vel-ar) dates back to the first Range Rover prototypes of the Sixties: the pioneers of the luxury SUV landscape.
When development engineers needed to hide the true identity of the 26 pre-production Range Rovers, they chose the name Velar, derived from the Latin velare meaning to veil or cover.
Full details of the Range Rover Velar will be announced on 1 March 2017.
Nothing too concrete but I wanted to get things posted here for reference.
With the first real spy shots of the forthcoming "coupe", it was time again to do some Linkedin searches. As we’ve seen before there are plenty of people posting about their connection to the 18MY L560 project.
Again just random bits from Linkedin:
** What does the VP stand for in the models listed below? X761 is the F-Pace.
Body-in-White (BIW) Tooling design for:
– Jaguar-Land Rover X761VP, L560, L560VP
– Support for JLR L560 @Steelweld Barford, United Kingdom (March 2015 – May 2015)
**
Another past employee adds:
** "Range Rover Evoque XL" (Grand Evoque is also mentioned in other places)
Contributing to the successful development of three iconic programmes: X761 Jaguar F-Pace, L462 Land rover Discovery 5, L560 Range Rover Evoque XL from concept phase through to launch. My main responsibilities have been to:
**
Finally there’s Gerry McGovern’s comments back in 2014 "It will be a distinct model, differentiated, not a derivative,”