RE: Range Rover Velar teased
Discussion
So much speculation on so many different things in this thread.
I can't say much but I do think the Velar will be a huge success and I'm quite excited for the official release on Thursday! It looks fantastic from just about every angle and should fit well into the model line up.
Styling wise, yeah it's obvious its part of the Land Rover family, but I think the aforementioned phrase "Copy & Paste" really doesn't apply. Look at BMW, Audi & Merc... Their cars have always been very distinctive and easy to recognize which brand they are... Yet no one seems to mind that?
Roll on Thursday I say
I can't say much but I do think the Velar will be a huge success and I'm quite excited for the official release on Thursday! It looks fantastic from just about every angle and should fit well into the model line up.
Styling wise, yeah it's obvious its part of the Land Rover family, but I think the aforementioned phrase "Copy & Paste" really doesn't apply. Look at BMW, Audi & Merc... Their cars have always been very distinctive and easy to recognize which brand they are... Yet no one seems to mind that?
Roll on Thursday I say
RSK21 said:
PunterCam said:
It's been interesting watching the attitudes on Pistonheads change over the many years I've been reading it.
It's full of people who actually like cars like this now - I think it's rather sad.
Isn't it odd because if I wanted to be similarly small minded I could say it's full of people who share little or nothing about their own car and moan how nostalgia isn't like it used to be !It's full of people who actually like cars like this now - I think it's rather sad.
Your post would much better reflect my real view of PH if it just took the eight words from the start of paragraph two.
One-upmanship is still popular on Youtube, maybe try your put-downs there if it makes you feel better.
PunterCam said:
What are you on about? A 2 ton SUV - and we all have to whoop and say it's fantastic?! It's funny how quickly people lose perspective and start championing the pish we were all rightly disgusted by only 10 years ago.
Rightly disgusted by? I'm not sure I agree with that sentiment and can't understand why any reasonably level headed person would get so emotional about a car.To put weight in perspective the new 'leaner, lighter, carbon-cored' 7 series weighs in at 1,830kg to 2,230kg and the RRS 2,091kg to 2,434kg. I think that is impressively close considering what BMW are promoting about lightness vs the type of car an RRS is. The thoughts people seem to have of 2 ton SUV's somehow weighing twice the weight of a similar sized car seem a bit misinformed.
Turkish91 said:
Styling wise, yeah it's obvious its part of the Land Rover family,
The NEW Land Rover family. It's actually genetically part of the Evoque family.. the new DSport family of smaller SUVs. It doesn't look anything like a Land Rover, it looks like a copy and paste Victoria Beckham jobbie.PunterCam said:
What are you on about? A 2 ton SUV - and we all have to whoop and say it's fantastic?! It's funny how quickly people lose perspective and start championing the pish we were all rightly disgusted by only 10 years ago.
One-upmanship is still popular on Youtube, maybe try your put-downs there if it makes you feel better.
One-upmanship is still popular on Youtube, maybe try your put-downs there if it makes you feel better.
No - that's not what I said at all.
PH has grown and with growth comes change. It's not what it was but it has had to change through necessity, the small matter of being owned by one of the UK's publishing houses is a major driver for that. As a result it now reflects a much broader church. People within that broader church all like different things and different cars but the beauty of the broader church is that most people can find something they like. To decry and infer it is sad that people might like different things and that the growth which has contributed to the success and survival of what is still the UK's largest and best known online car community is similarly so, is, in my opinion, a rather insular and unrealistic view.
What any of that has to do with one-upmanship and You Tube I have no idea.
Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 28th February 16:22
bluemason said:
Will there be an autobiography project khan edition velar?
Almost certainly but if you can't wait then just hammer some random carbon fibre bits to the outside of yours, put an inflatable sex carrot in the passenger seat, don a tracksuit and drive around spitting out the window and shouting obscenities. Oh, and flush £50k of undeclared cash down your toilet.
Pintofbest said:
Hitch said:
I presume this is 90% RRS to the window line but given that that has the usual LR 'command' driving position will the seats in this one be positioned lower or will the taller driver need to stoop?
It's based on an F-Pace chassis, not the RRS, so seats will be lower.Hitch said:
I presume this is 90% RRS to the window line but given that that has the usual LR 'command' driving position will the seats in this one be positioned lower or will the taller driver need to stoop?
The RRS is built on the FFRR chassis, the Velar is built on the Jaguar F-pace chassis. So the Velar shares very little in both ability and physicals.DonkeyApple said:
Almost certainly but if you can't wait then just hammer some random carbon fibre bits to the outside of yours, put an inflatable sex carrot in the passenger seat, don a tracksuit and drive around spitting out the window and shouting obscenities.
Oh, and flush £50k of undeclared cash down your toilet.
Oh yes I would need a gear knob that has been dipped in carbon fibre and a bassy sound system to pump whatever is banging in the music charts.Oh, and flush £50k of undeclared cash down your toilet.
I would also need to get a 'VEL4R' numberplate to show my status
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