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Geneva Motor Show 2013 : Land Rover Defender Electric

Keith Adams — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 09:25:31 +0000

Keith Adams, photography Andrew Elphick Land Rover unveiled its electric Defender at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. It’s currently a research project, but Land Rover says it could enter production if there’s sufficient demand. It’s a full-electric vehicle that sees its standard 2.2-litre turbodiesel engine and gearbox replaced by a 70kW (94bhp), 243lb ft electric [...]

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Blog : Why I hate the Land Rover Freelander

Mike Humble — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:42:11 +0000

Mike Humble Part of me feels guilty for writing this article on the Freelander, Land Rover’s baby 4×4. This is, after all, a site in which we cherish our fading British car companies and celebrate some of the great names that once pounded the highways and by-ways of England. But there again, we all differ [...]

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News : Land Rover unveils electric Defender for Geneva

Keith Adams — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:54:48 +0000

Keith Adams Land Rover is unveiling seven new electric Defender models at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. The research vehicle’s standard diesel engine and gearbox have been replaced by a 70kW (94bhp), 330Nm electric motor twinned with a 300-volt, lithium-ion battery with a capacity of 27kWh, giving a claimed range of more than 50 miles. [...]

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News : Range Rover L405 tows Airstream to Morocco

Keith Adams — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:20:46 +0000

In order to demonstrate the class-leading towing ability of the all-new Range Rover, Land Rover teamed up with an American icon to take part in the ultimate road-trip to one of the highest points in Africa. With a newly-launched Airstream 684 Series 2 aluminium travel trailer hitched to its electrically-deployable tow bar, a Range Rover [...]

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What the papers say : Range Rover L405

Keith Adams — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:04:13 +0000

Keith Adams The journalists are back from Morocco having sampled the fourth generation Range Rover on some of the world’s most demanding roads for the first time. The question is whether the new car, which has consumed hundreds of millions in development resources is the leap forward over the outgoing L322 – itself hardly shabby [...]

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Blog : Defending the legacy…

Keith Adams — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:58:49 +0000

Keith Adams I had a quick spin in a Land Rover XTech special edition today. Once again, it’s almost impossible to justify why such a antediluvian, beastly, bumpy, lumpy and unwieldy has a place on the new car price lists in 2012. You can’t get comfortable, you need the window open if you want meaningful [...]

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News : Winston’s Series 1 under the hammer

Keith Adams — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:22:47 +0000

The Land Rover given to Sir Winston Churchill on his 80th birthday is to be sold by auction house Cheffins in Cambridgeshire this weekend. By Daniel Harrison The early Series 1 Land Rover – with the registration UKE 80 was presented to Sir Winston Churchill on 30 November 1954. The original buff logbook shows that [...]

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News : Discovery 4 goes all-black

Keith Adams — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:24:20 +0000

Keith Adams The Land Rover Discovery 4 is continuing its slow move upmarket with the arrival of further high-end model derivatives. The HSE becomes available exclusively to the UK for the 2013 model year. It’s based upon the 3.0-litre 252bhp LR-SDV6 HSE, but the HSE Luxury derivative adds much needed comfort features, such as the [...]

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Blog : Reunited with the Beijing Disco V8

Keith Adams — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:04:38 +0000

Words: Keith Adams Photography: Richard Streeton Regular readers will be more than familiar with the Land Rover Journey of Discovery. The 10,000-plus epic journey that saw the millionth Discovery of the line (along with three others) drive from Gaydon to Beijng, and in the process, it raised £1million for the International Federation of Red Cross and [...]

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News : Range Rover built on £370m UK investment

Keith Adams — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 08:13:11 +0000

Jaguar Land Rover has invested £370 million to upgrade its UK manufacturing facilities and increase productivity as it prepares to launch the fourth generation Range Rover in 170 countries around the world. Sales of the L405 are to begin this month following a three-year engineering project, supporting 1000 jobs in design, product development and manufacturing [...]

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News : Range Rover details revealed

Keith Adams — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:58:05 +0000

Keith Adams So, the darling of the UK motor industry, Land Rover, has finally revealed full details of its flagship, the fourth generation Range Rover. As expected, the latest Rangie majors on luxury, now being thought of in terms as a credible all-round rival to the Mercedes-Benz S-Class and Audi A8. As well as, of [...]

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News : Defender spruced up for 2013

Keith Adams — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:48:51 +0000

Land Rover has revealed some minor changes to the Defender for the 2013 model year. Are we looking at the final spruce-up for the European market? The refresh includes a new colour pallet, with Barolo Black and Havana being added to the range. But also several options have been added for contrasting roofincluding Fuji White, [...]

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News : Freelander gets a nip ‘n’ tuck for 2013

Keith Adams — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:50:25 +0000

The Land Rover Freelander has received a package of updates for 2013, which its maker hopes will maintain the popularity of its core model range in the post-Evoque era. The facelift majors on the interior, which promises to be more upmarket with ‘premium’ feel. But with styling changes limited to a few minor ones that [...]

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Buy parts with AROnline and Rimmer Bros

Keith Adams — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:01:30 +0000

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Blog : Perkins – Breathing new life into old Land Rovers

Keith Adams — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:01:04 +0000

Keith Adams Had a lovely ride in a Series 1 Land Rover recently. My colleague Kev Mills, who works for Land Rover Monthly magazine is a real hard-core kind of fella. He drives into work regularly in his 60-year old car, often with no roof, no speedometer, and absolutely no creature comforts whatsoever. And do [...]

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News : Land Rover XTech arrives

Keith Adams — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:01:32 +0000

Land Rover has unveiled a new special edition Defender called the XTech. On sale now and priced from £27,995, the new model stands out thanks to a choice of either Orkney Grey or Nara Bronze paint with contrasting Santorini Black roof, wheel arches and black chequer plates along the bumpers and sills. Available as a [...]

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News : Journey of Discovery makes a million!

Keith Adams — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:25:58 +0000

The Land Rover ‘Journey of Discovery’ has raised £1million for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Mark Cameron, Land Rover Global Brand Experience Director, presented the cheque to Mark Astarita (Director of Fundraising, British Red Cross) at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where Land Rover are celebrating the ‘Journey of [...]

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News : Bowler and Land Rover join forces… finally!

admin — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:08:51 +0000

Land Rover and Bowler, the UK-based manufacturer of all-terrain performance cars and rally raid vehicles, have agreed to a brand partnership, formalising a relationship that has been in place for over a decade. Under the new agreement, ‘Powered by Land Rover’ badging on Bowler’s competition cars and across its marketing materials acknowledges the role that [...]

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Concepts and protoypes : Land Rover Discovery

Keith Adams — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:51:19 +0000

Project Jay was a vitally important programme for Land Rover – it was to create a intermediate model range that sat between the Range Rover and Defender, and fight the Mitsubishi Shogun and Isuzu Trooper in the market. Designing the car, which was so heavily based on the Range Rover was a difficult task. The [...]

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eBay Find of the Week : Discovery G_WAC

Keith Adams — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:10:03 +0000

Keith Adams Press launch cars tend to be the holy grail of cult classic cars – they’re appreciated by those who really know their cars. And as such can sometimes get missed by the more general enthusiast audience when examples come up for sale. That’s probably not the case with Discovery G-WAC launch cars – [...]

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