Slava from Moscow was kind enough to let me post the pictures he put up on the RangeRovers.net board. Great shots showing the little things we haven’t seen before.
Trunk controls for electrically folding rear seats.
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Rear sear door lock controls.
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Rear seat 4-Zone controls in the Bench Seat configuration
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Front door window control:
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And the big reveal, that chrome handle that’s been a mystery, is used to open a small storage cubby.
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From all we’re reading the new Range Rover doesn’t let us down in off-road capabilities, one of the surprises was the increase in wading depth over its predecessor, up 200mm to 900mm or almost 35 inches.
Back in the 2013 Range Rover media dark ages, I posted these pictures showing some interesting vents along the edges of the hood. I had thought they may have had something to do with a functional yet decorative hood vent.
They are functional and were known as the “Queen Mary funnels”
As we learned from the PistonHeads.com:
Ingesting intake air via the gap between bonnet and wing permits this, circulating it within the clamshell bonnet before entering intake funnels dubbed ‘Queen Marys’ after their resemblance to ship funnels. The earlier QE2 nickname was dismissed when it was discovered only one of the ship’s funnels functioned, trivia fans!
And a few more shots from the cut away:
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:
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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?