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2013 Land Rover LR2 / Freelander 2, A Family Resemblance

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More visual and technical updates that bring the entire family closer together.  I’ve never minded the LR2, I’ve only driven them as loaner cars.  And they were clearly old school plastic interior Land Rover.  This latest round of updates is great, but unfortunately just makes me realize how close it is to the Evoque and how much better it could be.  But either way, it’s all coming together, great job LR!!

I secretly kind of wish they’d “float the roof”, just sayin’

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LAND ROVER DELIVERS A PREMIUM NEW LOOK AND FEEL

TO THE FREELANDER 2

 

– New lightweight, 240PS Si4 2.0-litre GTDi petrol engine

—-14% reduction in CO2 to 224 g/km

—-7% increase in torque to 340Nm

– New exterior design features give a sportier & purposeful look

– Range Rover Evoque equipment now available in Freelander 2

– Fresh interior equipment and colourways includes new centre console

– New 7-inch colour touch-screen

– 825W Meridian surround sound system with 17-speakers for concert-like experience

– Say What You See prompted voice commands

– 7-Day Timed Climate system

– Rear View Camera with ‘Hitch Assist’

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2012-09-05T22:56:24-04:00September 6, 2012|
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2013 Land Rover Defender, Still perfect, now better #landrover

Clearing out some posts before the Range Rover stuff goes crazy.

Some nice tweaking of the Defender for 2013, still perfect, now better.

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STRENGTHENING THE APPEAL OF THE ICONIC LAND ROVER DEFENDER

 

– Two new body colours – Barolo Black and Havana

– Four new contrast roof colours

– Option of new premium seat design increases driving comfort

– Upgraded Alpine sound system

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2012-09-05T22:33:50-04:00September 6, 2012|
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2013 Range Rover Pre-reveal, what we know so far #newrangerover

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Tomorrow should be a deluge of actual 2013 Range Rover information, more than just the three page press release and five pictures.

Here’s some of the stuff we know so far, most of it culled from the Car Magazine article(Thanks Ian!!), nothing secret or all that new, just all the points that seemed important to me.

Three roof color choices – Black, silver or body color(i.e. traditional floating roof)

Three vents pieces in front doors are a purely visual element and can be either body color or Silver, matching the horizontal trim piece.  Gerry McGovern calls them a tribute to the DNA, which actually makes some sense.  If you think about it, all of the cues that make a Range Rover a Range Rover are the ones from the earliest designs.  This allows the L322 to contribute some traits to the new Range Rover.

It’s the most aerodynamic Range Rover ever.

Expect trim tweaks with every new model year.

50% reduction in switch gear.

Massage seats as an option

8-speed automatic & start/stop will be standard on all models

Naturally aspirated petrol V8 will be phased out for the new Supercharged V6 used in the XJ in the near future

MacPherson front struts will be replaced with aluminum double wishbones all around.

Overall the message is that we’re going to see customization options never seen before in a Range Rover. 

McGovern quoted as saying, “give people the ability to personalize their vehicles, but in a way that protects the integrity.  We know tuners take our cars and quite frankly, they erode their image” 

I can’t agree more with this, I feel the actual designers have the best eye for what should and shouldn’t go on a Range Rover.  Hopefully the new options will make people think twice before ruining theirs.

It’s refreshing to hear Gerry McGovern talk about real Range Rovers and not have to convince people that the Evoque is one too.

Can’t wait for tomorrow, we’ll meet again at 3:45PM EST.

2012-09-05T18:19:47-04:00September 5, 2012|
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2013 Range Rover, the little things, part three, badges & armrests #newrangerover

Hopefully there will be a new deluge of information after the reveal tomorrow.  Before that here’s a last “little things”, before we start posting all the big things.

Starting with the 2010 Range Rover refresh, the Land Rover badge, was removed from the rear of the vehicle, but remained in the front grill.  Starting for the 2012MY, the badges on the wheel centers switched from Land Rover to the new Range Rover logo that the Evoque received.

In those first five official pictures we saw of the next Range Rover, the rear Land Rover badge has returned and the wheels centers are Land Rover in some pictures and Range Rover in others.

I think this return to Land Rover badging could be a fluke or could be something more in line with their new advertising campaign, where they back to reminding us where they came from.  I like it.

Yes, those are 22” wheels, an option for the new Range Rover.

And the rear badging:

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Finally, there were questions from the various spy shots about whether or not we’d see the armrests like the previous Range Rovers, in the new Range Rover.  While we won’t actually know until we get more details, this shot is encouraging.

2012-09-04T23:15:11-04:00September 5, 2012|
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