RE: Range Rover Velar - full details

[AndrewNR]

Quickmoose said:

OK for the alledged dye'd in the wool car enthusuast...lets play spot the difference....




come on now I can see at least 2

Top one looks st, the bottom one doesn't.

[wildcat45]

craigjm said:

It's not fake leather. Pictures in the autocar article I linked

Is this it? Looks pretty good to me. I'm getting a bot bored with leather. It's in everything thes days.

[cayman-black]

SWoll said:

Indeed. The Evoque looks like a re-skinned Freelander with questionable styling decisions. The Velar looks like a shrunken FFRR, which to my eyes is already the best looking SUV by a country mile.

Right looking at it it could easily be the new FFRR.

[philmots]

So, will it get the V8?

[Jimmy Recard]

philmots said:

So, will it get the V8?

I hope so!

This could be quite a nice little rocket with the supercharged V8 in it

[craigjm]

wildcat45 said:

craigjm said:

It's not fake leather. Pictures in the autocar article I linked

Is this it? Looks pretty good to me. I'm getting a bot bored with leather. It's in everything thes days.

Yeah that's the stuff

[Crazy4557]

Crushed velour will be all the rage next.

[craigjm]

Crazy4557 said:

Crushed velour will be all the rage next.

I'm restoring a 1975 Jaguar XJ coupe and in the original literature crushed velour was an upgrade from leather

[jakesmith]

anonymous said:

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Luxury for most people doesn't equate to revving the nuts off an engine to get a car moving, and even less so on a 2 ton 4x4.
It may be more enjoyable to drive for an enthusiast but when I get in an S Class or 7 series taxi, one of the things that makes it so luxurious, is the effortless and quiet way it pulls thanks to a refined turbo diesel engine
In cars that weigh this much, you aren't going to get great throttle response anyway, turbo or not, without having serious power

[jakesmith]

Crazy4557 said:

Crushed velour will be all the rage next.

Crushed velour is actually a big thing in home decor at the moment, we've recently bought new carpet & sofas, and it's prominent in both types of retailer although we resisted ourselves

[cayman-black]

craigjm said:

I'm restoring a 1975 Jaguar XJ coupe and in the original literature crushed velour was an upgrade from leather

I remember going to look at a XJ-S back in the day that had the Velour option, the only one i had ever seen.

[FourWheelDrift]

You can't beat a bit of green velor.

[Granfondo]

anonymous said:

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What n/a 6 cylinder engines are available in luxury new cars these days?

[jakesmith]

anonymous said:

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Those days are over though aren't they. And wouldn't it be a bit of a shed to drive by today's standards? And even when new would the interior / build quality have been that luxurious? I'm happy to be wrong of course as I haven't driven one. Can you link to a nice one for sale to have a look at?

[FourWheelDrift]

jakesmith said:

Those days are over though aren't they. And wouldn't it be a bit of a shed to drive by today's standards? And even when new would the interior / build quality have been that luxurious? I'm happy to be wrong of course as I haven't driven one. Can you link to a nice one for sale to have a look at?

Leather interior - http://www.graemehunt.com/motorcar/364/1989-range-...

cloth interior - http://www.graemehunt.com/motorcar/334/1986-range-...

[jakesmith]

FourWheelDrift said:

Leather interior - http://www.graemehunt.com/motorcar/364/1989-range-...

cloth interior - http://www.graemehunt.com/motorcar/334/1986-range-...

Ruddy hell they're a bit strong aren't they?!

[mybrainhurts]

"showcasing Land Rover's "philosophy of stripping away complexity to reveal true quality."

Somebody needs to put those marketing bods in strait jackets. Give me strength...

[jakesmith]

mybrainhurts said:

"showcasing Land Rover's "philosophy of stripping away complexity to reveal true quality."

Somebody needs to put those marketing bods in strait jackets. Give me strength...

I'm not disagreeing but you also need to consider...
The marketeers & accountants wrestle product control from engineers and make companies viable (even if to the detriment of the product, see Porsche's foray into water cooled engine manufacture)
The products are not hugely differentiated from eachother in RR's lineup
It would be hard to create exciting colorful marketing language to describe all the hundreds of similar cars and brands out there, we don't live in 'Beans means Heinz' days any more. What could they put instead? 'Buy a British vehicle with improved reliability vs our older ones, that look a bit better than a German and drive about the same or slightly worse'

[mybrainhurts]

jakesmith said:

mybrainhurts said:

"showcasing Land Rover's "philosophy of stripping away complexity to reveal true quality."

Somebody needs to put those marketing bods in strait jackets. Give me strength...

I'm not disagreeing but you also need to consider...
The marketeers & accountants wrestle product control from engineers and make companies viable (even if to the detriment of the product, see Porsche's foray into water cooled engine manufacture)
The products are not hugely differentiated from eachother in RR's lineup
It would be hard to create exciting colorful marketing language to describe all the hundreds of similar cars and brands out there, we don't live in 'Beans means Heinz' days any more. What could they put instead? 'Buy a British vehicle with improved reliability vs our older ones, that look a bit better than a German and drive about the same or slightly worse'

Aye, I'm sure a million housewives every day will open a can of beans and lap it up...

[Wills2]

Looks lovely, but very expensive, I specced a D240 and D300 on the configurator and the D240 comes in at over 70k the D300 76k.

I have sneaking suspicion that it needs the bits and bobs optioning to be the car it wants to be as well.

Money sure has lost its value.