RANGE ROVER - Everything You Need to Know | Up to Speed

Range Rovers are elegant, brooding icons of luxury, just like your child, their style is timeless and they can go anywhere they want, but one thing I bet you may not have

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Easy, slow down honestly, I'm not even kidding. Hello yes this is my favorite sponsorship we have done this year the story of the Range Rover starts with the

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company in Silla ho Bostwick Shire England the company itself started in 1885 and there are many good stories between then and now but we I don't have all day, so let's start with one of the most famous models, the Land Rover, an imitation of the Willys Jeep. The Land Rover was a huge success in the agricultural and military markets, but engineers Maurice and Spenser Wilkes were emphasizing that 1950s Englund was slowly emerging from a post-war crisis.

Have you ever seen photos of Englund just after the World War II and the guys were worried that the Land Rover's basic amenities weren't enough, so they asked their friend Gordon Bashford to design a concept car that was larger and more refined than the Land Rover and, at the same time , was still just as utilitarian. The new project was called the Road Rover, also known as the 80-inch pickup truck. It was a car that would look at home in the city but could haul a lot of stuff and be easy. More work had to be done, so they kept pushing and pushing the development of the road

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before realizing that the car had been in limbo for almost ten years.

Cut to 1963. The road rover is not yet in production, but the jabroni zatt Rover still desperately wanted to make it. add a large utility city car to its lineup while another sedan car that Rover offered was making to Bank. The p6 was designed by Spencer and Maurice's nephew, Charles Spen Kings. It wasn't as practical or utilitarian as a road rover concept and it was a little underpowered, but it rolled and people with a p6 even won European Car of the Year the first year the award was given. Rover's line of cars was doing well, but they felt a twinge of temptation in their little earlobes.

Rover longed to break into the American market. Who could blame? Here was something more incredible, the new 1966 Ford Bronco, a rugged, tough nobody that would scale any sports car. A new market niche was emerging in the colonies. Cars like the Ford Bronco, the Jeep Wagoneer, were doing some crazy numbers and the market was Growing up, do you remember from before how the American Jeep inspired the Land Rover, well damn if it didn't happen against Fond du Lac Wisconsin 1965 Bill Martin Hearst is at Mercury Marine trying to sell Carl Keka Fur Rover diesel engines for use on friends, when he noticed an aluminum engine sitting on the ground oh what is that? oh, this guy here is a V8, I haven't gotten out of a Buick Skylark, don't you know?

I'm going to put it in a boat, don't you know? Bill Martin Hurst thought the engine might be a good solution for the underpowered P6, but he took out his tape measure and discovered that it was only an inch longer than the Rover's four-cylinder and only twelve pounds heavier than a V8 that weighs Just 12. pounds heavier than a four-cylinder bill nearly shit his pants, and not because the fried cheese he ate for lunch was an exciting bill, Carl had shipped the engine back to Anglin and contacted an international GM about licensing to which they responded, yes, yes, we.

We will investigate the matter if he had an engineer secretly put the v8 in the rover p6 after a board meeting in London, Bill handed King the keys to the p6 without telling him about the new engine. Mum's car, you've got a turbo in your car, now spend Rove, the B egg, go back to Solihull, I got out of the car and he said this is the first Rover, I'm Evan, I wasn't underpowered, huzzah, huzzah, huzzah , huzzah, this new aluminum v8 worked. great on the p6 but was perfect for the new rogue Rover. I'm talking about Elan Musk and Grimes, perfect, so they did what anyone would do.

They called a Buick engineer to come in and tune the V8 joke. He early he was about to go to bed. when he got the call I was so happy, you only have 18 more months working at Buick, then you can retire and one week, oh yeah, this is Joe, calling so late, Joe, it's Rover, they want me to come work for them , do not tell me. He said yes Joe, I'm going to England. I'm telling you Clarice. I'm getting too old for this, so Turley postponed his retirement and flew to England. There he used his intimate knowledge of the v8 to bring the horsepower to 160.

His Spurs 210. At 2,600 rpm with a sexy 10.5 to 1 compression ratio, the Buick v8 was reborn as the rover v8 with a powerful engine at its disposal. King and Gordon Bashford got to work engineering a practical 4x4 that improved on the Land Rover's design while maintaining the essence of the road rover: it had to work better, be more comfortable and, above all, more versatile. His first task was to bring a Land Rover series to the chassis. Note that this is still a decade before Land Rover had individual model names and I put some long travel Cool Springs on it straight away, Land Rover traditionalists got angry because they assumed the Ute would get stuck in the mud without any that joint of the Land Rover beam axles, but they turn and Bashford and Mr.

Land Rover himself Roger Kray Thorne we are I'm going to prove them wrong: the first Range Rover prototype called Villar was built in 1967 and for the next two years 40 pre-production vehicles would be built and tested and in 1970 the production Range Rover finally debuted and let me tell you, it exceeded expectations. they are surprised to write a word it looks like a decent family car but it could also destroy your ass off-road and no other car versatility of Kentuckians the Range Rover was so popular that it was sold out immediately and customers had to be on a waiting list at the price of 1998 pounds, which today is equivalent to about forty thousand US dollars, was not exactly within a farmer's budget.

The posh people of the city who had never driven trucks were surprised at how high the seats were and were finally able to look at all the poor people immediately. That Rover realized that the people who were buying their cars were not the people they had originally mined. It wasn't a utility box that could carry a bale of hay in the back. It was a status symbol. The car won all kinds of awards. It even appeared in the Louvre as an exemplary work of industrial design. This thing was then a damn museum with the Mona Lisa leaving town.

A company called British Leyland had bought Rover a few years earlier and saw the demand and started raising the price. but despite the walk, people continued to collect it and the demand only grew. The Range Rover was so unique that they didn't feel the

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to update the design for a long time. One of the reasons it wasn't updated was because the British Leyland was horrible at running the company, that all changed when in 1979 Land Rover Limited became its own entity. The original Range Rover had a very basic vinyl and plastic interior, so you could hose it down after transporting your pigs or air in the back once.

They saw what kind of people really bought them. Bujji, London folks, started adapting the interior to suit the lifestyle, so they started experimenting with special editions and outsourcing coach builds. The Monteverde conversion burst onto the scene at the 1980 Geneva Motor Show, built by a Swiss racer. Car driver and coach builder Peter Monteverde, this special edition came in five different colors, had leather interior and air conditioning and, most importantly, had two more doors for passengers. This was significant because for 10 years the Range Rover was a two-door Range Rover and decided to keep the limit configuration, which remains a key feature to this day, other than the car remained basically the same apart from minor tweaks. , the first generation Range Rover was in production from 1969 to 1994 with very few changes, if you think about it, that's crazy.

On the 370z, BMW bought the company in 1994 and debuted the second-generation Range Rover shortly after. The new Range Rover, called the p38 a or Pegasus, had the previous generation's 3.9-litre v8, but later got an updated longitudinally mounted 4.6-litre Rover. v8 capable of producing 225 Jack Buff horsepower, this engine was standard on the HSE or high-spec trim level. A notable feature of the second generation Range Rover was this electronic air suspension that offered automatic height adjustment depending on the

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of the car of this generation. It lasted until 2001, when Post Malone turned six. The third-generation Range Rover debuted in 2002 and initially offered a 4.4-liter BMW engine or a 2.6-liter turbodiesel, also from BMW.

This generation is when the body style started to look more like the Range. The Rovers we know today have cleaner lines and more rounded corners, but still maintain the spirit of the classic Range Rover. 2005 marked the first time Land Rover offered a second Ranger of our model. Coincidentally, it was when Jaguar merged with Land Rover. Coincidence, there is no coincidence. Something of a coincidence, the Range Rover Sport started out as the Range Rover Stormer concept with a shorter wheelbase and a new supercharged aluminum Jaguar V8. This Gungan produced 390 truly amateur horses. The Range Rover Evoque debuted in 2011.

This subcompact SUV was a first. The Range Rover returned to the two-door body. It was also the first convertible Range Rover. The VOC convertible was and still is the ugliest car ever built. It looks like a bathtub that Donald Duck would drive. Why don't you take your Evoque convertible? go meet a Murano convertible, get a horse and live in the mountains and don't bother anyone. The President Gen Range Rover came out in 2012. The new all-aluminum monocoque chassis shaved some weight, while the new Jaguar-derived LR v8 engine hit. Well, honey, Powell, this supercharged v8 makes 495 horsepower. Sure, most of these Range Rovers are probably driven around the Macy's parking lot, but it's fun to know you can go off-road if you want.

The Range Rover Velar was launched in 2017. It was the first time since the pre-production of the Range Rover Classic that the Velar name was used, only the design of the new velor couldn't be more different than the classic. The Valar's smoother lines and road-focused capabilities are meant to usher in. a new design language that started earlier by evoking the 2-liter four-cylinder won't take you off-road, but it will take you to hmm, hopefully Range Rover will continue to make more cars in the future that make you poop. of excitement and not because you had fried cheese in curds for lunch thanks for watching the tonal means.

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