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Post by grampa on Sept 20, 2017 16:23:35 GMT
Only online photo I can find is the Autocar front cover: www.autocar.co.uk/magazineI've often wondered how Land Rover's styling expertise would translate to a road car - very well it turns out, and I guess with all the road car manufacturers making off roaders it was inevitable that Land Rover would do the opposite. |
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Post by Blarno on Sept 20, 2017 17:53:59 GMT
Given where most Land/Range Rovers spend their time, they're already Road Rovers.
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Post by racingteatray on Sept 20, 2017 18:34:19 GMT
Land Rover's styling expertise I didn't know it had any these days.
Ghastly idea.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2017 8:36:46 GMT
They seem to be cutting the styling cake into ever-smaller slices. A 'no' from me.
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Post by michael on Sept 21, 2017 9:10:24 GMT
Good idea. Will be interesting to see what they come up with.
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Post by PG on Sept 21, 2017 10:06:55 GMT
The atticle states - "For this week's Autocar, we've peered into the Autocar crystal ball to reveal all about the Road Rover, a top-secret, street-biased Mercedes-Benz S-Class rival from Land Rover that's not due out for another two years."
This sounds like a god idea, but I always thought that the Land Rover S class rival was the Range Rover? Now that the Velar is treading on the RR Sport's shoes (price wise and market wise), then I expect this means that the Range Rover will move even further up the price tree into Bentgayer / Cullinan territory and the RR Sport will be moved to occupy the price point of the current Range Rover. Or you can have a road based Road Rover that in somewhere in the middle.
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Post by Blarno on Sept 21, 2017 12:11:26 GMT
It still looks like a tall posh roader though, so I see no real need for it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2017 12:20:28 GMT
You can picture those who will, though.
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Post by michael on Sept 21, 2017 12:24:13 GMT
You can picture those who will, though. Former S-class customers, presumably? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2017 12:26:22 GMT
If it looks like the image on the front of Autocar, that's not who I am picturing.
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Post by michael on Sept 21, 2017 12:29:13 GMT
I personally wouldn't judge anybody for buying the car they wanted.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2017 13:09:36 GMT
I'm quite happy to notice how frequently stereotype and reality tally.
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Post by grampa on Sept 21, 2017 13:49:13 GMT
Land Rover's styling expertise I didn't know it had any these days.
Ghastly idea.
All in the eye of the beholder I guess - to me, with the exception of Kia, they make the only good looking off roaders. It's a much less ghastly idea to me than Porsche, Bentley or Rolls Royce making an off roader - all of which has resulted in truly ugly looking vehicles. |
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Post by grampa on Sept 21, 2017 13:50:37 GMT
It still looks like a tall posh roader though, so I see no real need for it. Looks a lot less tall on the images inside the magazine - still tall compared to a normal car though. |
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Post by Tim on Sept 21, 2017 16:01:40 GMT
I'm quite happy to notice how frequently stereotype and reality tally. Same here, it's not always accurate but I reckon I have a decent hit-rate!  |
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Post by Blarno on Sept 22, 2017 9:36:29 GMT
It has ex-X6 owner written all over it.
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Post by Ben on Sept 22, 2017 12:28:15 GMT
Road Rover? Is it April Fool's already?
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Post by PG on Sept 22, 2017 16:45:25 GMT
Now I've read the article in the magazine, it says that the next Jag XJ will be based on a new aluminium platform that can support electric and ICE propulsion and that this Road Rover will be built on that platform. JLR sources are quoted as saying that a decision has been taken not to do an electric only Range Rover (as was muted before I seem to remember) as this would be to hard to make safe for full-on off road use (especially with regard to wading). Although I'm sure as non-ICE cars become more common, that will have to be reappraised at some point (when technology allows), or else that halo car and range will die in the future and I can't see JLR accepting that.
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Post by grampa on Sept 26, 2017 15:30:38 GMT
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Post by Roadrunner on Sept 26, 2017 22:07:04 GMT
Creaming my pants over that rear 3/4 view. Lots of want.
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Post by ChrisM on Sept 27, 2017 7:23:06 GMT
Creaming my pants over that rear 3/4 view. Lots of want. Really? Looks like an elephant has sat on the back of the roof to me. I hate rooflines that slope excessively downwards at the rear |
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Post by PG on Sept 27, 2017 9:45:13 GMT
Creaming my pants over that rear 3/4 view. Lots of want. That rendition is very Merc CLS estate at the back isn't it? Which is kind of ironic as the Merc CLS saloon design aped the Jag XJ saloon rear and now Land Rover are going to ape the CLS estate. |
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Post by LandieMark on Sept 27, 2017 9:57:22 GMT
I like it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2017 11:31:29 GMT
They seem to be cutting the styling cake into ever-smaller slices. A 'no' from me. That sounds like a good idea, as the current slices are massive!  |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Sept 27, 2017 16:10:46 GMT
It's an Autocar imagination of what a Road Rover might look like.
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