Thinking of buying 4×4 this Winter?
Tweet The last couple of years have given rise to a huge debate over the merits of driving a 4×4 over winter. With the UK coming to a standstill for weeks on end during January and February, many motorists are wondering whether they should trade in their city run-around for a lean, mean, snow-crushing machine. [...]
Range Rover Evoque Review
Tweet At the moment we are having a love affair with 4×4’s. For many years now, the Land Rover/Range Rover brand has shown its brilliance by producing an off road vehicle that blends off road might with opulent luxury. Now we have a New Land Rover to feast our eyes over – the Land Rover [...]
Defender of The Faith
Tweet In 1947 one Maurice Wilks came up with the idea of a Land Rover and, in a nutshell, the Series 1 Landy was born. Swiftly, this robust workhorse became the favourite of farmers, equestrians and soldiers alike and it roamed for years across the billowing fields and sheltered valleys of the countryside. Over the [...]
Land Rover Defender Concepts DC100 & DC100 Sport
Tweet Land Rover today reveals two new concept vehicles at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The DC100 and DC100 Sport demonstrate the thinking behind the on-going development of the iconic and ever popular Defender, which is intended for production in 2015. Both the DC100 and DC100 sporty are based upon the same 100 inch wheelbase, and [...]
Range Rover Evoque – Managing Customer Expectations
Tweet Waiting. I’ve done a lot of that over the years. Waiting for my wife: ‘Yes, Darling, that one looks fab too. Can we go now before hell freezes over?’ Waiting for children at school gates, the school prom and sundry dubious places where the young congregate. Waiting for appointments, buses, trains - ARGHH! With [...]
Range Rover Evoque
Tweet Land Rover is expecting audacious things from its…well rather audacious looking Evoque. The car offers the fuel economy of a mid ranged Ford Focus in a chassis that is actually shorter – not very Land Rover – the company is expecting 90 per cent of Evoque sales to come from customers new to the [...]
New 4×4 Popularity Increased Despite High Fuel Prices
Tweet Despite record hikes in fuel prices over the last few months, more car buyers are looking to purchase a new SUV or 4×4 than six months ago, according to a new report by Motoring.co.uk, the UK’s leading motoring website for new car search. The report examines what online visitors searched for in March 2011 [...]
Land Rover – A 60 Year Journey
Tweet At the 1948 motor show in war-torn Amsterdam the British company Rover rolled out an austerity era vehicle aimed at the slowly recovering farming community. In reality it was the illegitimate child of the American Willys Jeep and the British knack for improvisation: locked in permanent four wheel drive, bolted together from aluminium alloy due to the [...]
Coventry; Leading the Way to Lower Carbon Footprint
Tweet The traditional home of the UK motor industry is now fast becoming one of the leaders in the new generation of automotive development and production The financial consequences for failing to meet CO2 emission levels – as well as the ethical incentives to producing greener vehicles – are helping to drive forward the development [...]
Jaguar Land Rover Top Technicians of The Year 2010
Tweet Jaguar Land Rover has announced the winner of their Technicians of the Year competition. A record 302 technicians from the UK took part in this year’s competition -of these, 123 were from Jaguar and 179 were from Land Rover. The final round of the competition was held at the Academy’s purpose built HQ in [...]
