RE: Range Rover gets a facelift
Friday 14th October 2005
Rangie with a Project Kahn makeoverProject Kahn is offering a facelift for the 2006 Range Rover TD6 Vogue.
Range Rover gets a facelift
Modded car is "chic and sophisticated"
Rangie with a Project Kahn makeover
The company said its Range Rover facelift involves a £16,000 conversion which will soon include a 14-piece styling pack. The company said it aims to be "chic and sophisticated", rather than a race-tuner.
There's a huge number of extras -- see the link below for details. However, the car pictured has had the following mods performed:
- Kahn RS-C 22-inch wheels
- Privacy tinted glass all round pentagon fitted
- Chrome bullet wing fenders
- Project Kahn leather programme
- Chrome foglamp bezels
- Chrome tubular sidebars
- Engine upgrade for an extra 30bhp and 37lb-ft of torque
- Stainless steel rear valance
- DVD with two 7-inch screens fitted into rear of front headrests
- Stainless steel exhaust system with twin 90mm tailpipes
- Interior colour code programme
Project Kahn said its philosophy is "for the individual who will not submit to a life of uniformity and who will only accept perfection and is dedicated to the creation of luxury bespoke vehicles. We redesign the ordered monotony of the mass produced vehicle and rebuild it into an individually tailored creation. Our cars offer tasteful exclusivity to those that enjoy the finer things in life."
Discussion
Looks more bling than chic to me. OK if you like that kind of thing (and more and more people seem to). Just reminds me of annoying rap videos and MTV cribs types who never go near a car wash sponge themselves.
Mobile jewelery. A medallion in this case.
P.S. Is is possible to specify a Rangie or an X5 in a colour other than black?
Mobile jewelery. A medallion in this case.
P.S. Is is possible to specify a Rangie or an X5 in a colour other than black?
That car's been lowered too. I have always wondered what the point of lowered SUVs is. Surely the ONLY real benefit of this type of vehicle over a shooting brake (decided not to call them estates any more!) is that it is high, for traversing rocks, seeing over traffic and avoiding minor knocks.
Why would anyone buy this RR when they can have an RS4 Avant (that's shooting brake) for the same money? And they are hardly ten a penny.
why do they insist on ruining the poor things?,when i see an RR like that i cringe,the only modded ones that i think look nice are the Overfinch ones and then at least you kno your money is going on performance,i would take a completly standard Vogue SE over that project Kahn rubbish any day of the week.
"chic and sophisticated"? Slamming a Rangie onto 22" blades doesn't suggest sophistication to me.
I do suppose there is an element of individuality to it; there can't be many people willing to lavish £16k on a £57k car and still have it belching black smoke out of the back each time you try (and fail) to race a Civic at the lights. The £73k price tag is, incidentally, the same as the Supercharged V8 Vogue SE Rangie. Which would you choose?
Having lived in the hometown of Project Kahn (Bradford) for three years, if I never see another slammed 4X4 it will be too soon.
I do suppose there is an element of individuality to it; there can't be many people willing to lavish £16k on a £57k car and still have it belching black smoke out of the back each time you try (and fail) to race a Civic at the lights. The £73k price tag is, incidentally, the same as the Supercharged V8 Vogue SE Rangie. Which would you choose?
Having lived in the hometown of Project Kahn (Bradford) for three years, if I never see another slammed 4X4 it will be too soon.
For the love of god people, these RR's aren't lowered, in the photos they are merely left on their lowest setting.
I have a chum with a Project Kahn RR, and it still goes off road as well as any other RR with road tyres.
You can't actually drive them like they are in the pictures, they have to raise up a little.
I have a chum with a Project Kahn RR, and it still goes off road as well as any other RR with road tyres.
You can't actually drive them like they are in the pictures, they have to raise up a little.
Hendry said:
That car's been lowered too. I have always wondered what the point of lowered SUVs is. Surely the ONLY real benefit of this type of vehicle over a shooting brake (decided not to call them estates any more!) is that it is high, for traversing rocks, seeing over traffic and avoiding minor knocks.
Why would anyone buy this RR when they can have an RS4 Avant (that's shooting brake) for the same money? And they are hardly ten a penny.
Surely the point in lowering SUVs is obvious, to lower the CofG and improve handling. The difference is that compared to the average car some SUVs such as the RR can be programmed to run at a lower setting in town and then raised on its air suspension to when off the tarmac.
Your second point; RR or Audi RS4 it's the same as asking why does someone bother with a 5-bed house when they could have a 1 bed flat. Personally the RR is too big for my liking and far too restricted when parking but the RS4 isn't even large enough to comfortably hold a family of 4 adults so it's a mute comparison.
DoctorD said:
That car's been lowered too. I have always wondered what the point of lowered SUVs is. Surely the ONLY real benefit of this type of vehicle over a shooting brake (decided not to call them estates any more!) is that it is high, for traversing rocks, seeing over traffic and avoiding minor knocks.
Why would anyone buy this RR when they can have an RS4 Avant (that's shooting brake) for the same money? And they are hardly ten a penny.
Surely the point in lowering SUVs is obvious, to lower the CofG and improve handling. The difference is that compared to the average car some SUVs such as the RR can be programmed to run at a lower setting in town and then raised on its air suspension to when off the tarmac.
I'm sure the range rover hasn't been lowered. If it's like mine, it sits on air suspension so it's the driver that dictates what the ride height will be (or you can let the computer take control).
Accordingly, at a touch of a button you can drop the range rover down to hug the floor to go gangsta style or raise it up to look down imperiously.
bonedaddy said:
Waste of time, money & energy IMO. As someone else said, leave stuff like that to Overfinch.
Who'd want to pay all that to look like a drug dealer or a footballers wife?
A drug dealer or a footballers wife of course. Who else do you think they sell 'em too? Donk know, maybe it's a Bradford thing.
Not just a Bradford thing, but there indeed all too many of these bling machines driving around the streets of my home City, with windows lowered, 800 watts of gangsta rap blaring through said open windows (in which case I always wonder why they specify privacy glass when the windows are constantly lowered ?), with what can only be described as chavvy, baseball capped, shell suited, gold encrusted gits glaring at you.
Makes you wonder where these young lads get there money from, it really does............but then anyone who knows Bradford realises its entire economy is based upon the privision of mans more chemically enhanced substances.
Makes you wonder where these young lads get there money from, it really does............but then anyone who knows Bradford realises its entire economy is based upon the privision of mans more chemically enhanced substances.
Yeah, if there is one thing i CAN"T STAND, its low profile tyres on a 4x4. People who are putting 20 inch + rims on RRs need educating! 4x4's look better with loads of rubber and you can be safe in the knowledge you'll hardly ever curb your alloys. And I'm sure the ride will be somewhat improved too ...
If you want a sports car, BUY A SPORTS CAR. Fools!
>> Edited by Merefield on Friday 14th October 20:09
If you want a sports car, BUY A SPORTS CAR. Fools!
>> Edited by Merefield on Friday 14th October 20:09
What about an RS6 then??
DoctorD said:
That car's been lowered too. I have always wondered what the point of lowered SUVs is. Surely the ONLY real benefit of this type of vehicle over a shooting brake (decided not to call them estates any more!) is that it is high, for traversing rocks, seeing over traffic and avoiding minor knocks.
Why would anyone buy this RR when they can have an RS4 Avant (that's shooting brake) for the same money? And they are hardly ten a penny.
Surely the point in lowering SUVs is obvious, to lower the CofG and improve handling. The difference is that compared to the average car some SUVs such as the RR can be programmed to run at a lower setting in town and then raised on its air suspension to when off the tarmac.
Your second point; RR or Audi RS4 it's the same as asking why does someone bother with a 5-bed house when they could have a 1 bed flat. Personally the RR is too big for my liking and far too restricted when parking but the RS4 isn't even large enough to comfortably hold a family of 4 adults so it's a mute comparison.
MILF said:
Not just a Bradford thing, but there indeed all too many of these bling machines driving around the streets of my home City, with windows lowered, 800 watts of gangsta rap blaring through said open windows (in which case I always wonder why they specify privacy glass when the windows are constantly lowered ?), with what can only be described as chavvy, baseball capped, shell suited, gold encrusted gits glaring at you.
Makes you wonder where these young lads get there money from, it really does............but then anyone who knows Bradford realises its entire economy is based upon the privision of mans more chemically enhanced substances.
i dont think privacy glass is always a bad thing,but to me an RR with the normal mullispoke Vogue alloys,black with black glass,or silver or oslo blue looks far nicer than a butchered bling mobile and those silly exhausts they change, as someone said earlier, £72k for a butchered TD6 or the same amount for a supercharged Vogue SE, i know what my choice would be.
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