Teaser #1:
Ahead of the Goodwood Festival of Speed, we get this teaser from Land Rover. Mike Cross, Jaguar Land Rover’s Chief Engineer for Vehicle Integrity does the narration for this 16 second video that does nothing but build anticipation.
Teaser #2:
Range Rover Sport Stealth Pack Makes Its Global Debut At Goodwood Festival Of Speed
A lot sooner than later we’re going to get a chance to see how Land Rover does when they finally bring their touch interface into 2014. It’s going to be an exciting change for Land Rover owners who are used to being a cycle or two behind other luxury brands. What was once overlooked in an eccentric British Land Rover way, has become a real anachronism.
Land Rover announced their integration of the Bosch SoftTech mySPIN system at CES in January 2014. That announcement and a post by Stevek1173 over on rangerovers.net got me on the trail to see what we could find.
The interface does look advanced and high-res, it seems to not have much lag but I’m sure all the demos are going to be as perfect as possible. I also can’t seem to find video of an actual app being used from a smartphone. All of that type of info is just animated.
One thing that shines through in all of their examples is that Land Rover is deeply involved. As seen in the first image above, that demo takes place in a new Range Rover Sport. In addition the video where that clip originates is in German but right at the end Land Rover InControl is clearly mentioned.
You can watch it here, sorry it’s not completely in English but oddly the parts in English are people talking about how they use mySPIN, I’m going to say they’re probably paid extras, ha.
Another still from the video, while this one isn’t exactly a Range Rover Sport (gas filler on wrong side), there’s no mistaking those Range Rover headlights and tail lights.
Another video, this one in English:
Another with practically all of the interior vehicle shots here are taken in a Range Rover Sport.
While we haven’t actually seen the InControl system “InAction”, these videos do give us an idea of what it will look like and how it will work. This final video has the user interface on show:
Hope you enjoyed this and hoping even more that we’ll see it in a Range Rover in the next six months or so.
Some links to check out:
Land Rover has today revealed an exclusive new documentary film charting the new Range Rover Sport’s challenge to complete the fastest recorded crossing of the Empty Quarter desert, which it achieved last month.
The video, which can be seen on Land Rover’s YouTube channel here, tracks the team’s 849km journey from Wadi Adda Wasir in Saudi Arabia to the border of the United Arab Emirates. The team completed the challenge on November 3rd 2013, finishing in 10 hours and 22 minutes at an average speed of 51.87 mph (81.87 km/h), and the documentary charts the journey from beginning to end.
