New range rover looks disappointing

goochy

See one regularly near my job and can't believe how low down it is ( obviously to improve handling ) it lacks the presense of older models and looks too similar to sport mdl ! you also don't get a v8 dsl as std now I hear the v6 dsl is fast but it's still a v6 ! You can get a new Porsche cayenne v8 dsl for a simalar price !

Anan1

goochy wrote: »

you also don't get a v8 dsl as std now I hear the v6 dsl is fast but it's still a v6 !

So buy the V8.

ba_barabus

goochy wrote: »

can't believe how low down !

It rises up when it needs to.

Good looking 4x4. I'd still prefer a P38 though

Gumbo

goochy wrote: »

See one regularly near my job and can't believe how low down it is ( obviously to improve handling ) it lacks the presense of older models and looks too similar to sport mdl ! you also don't get a v8 dsl as std now I hear the v6 dsl is fast but it's still a v6 ! You can get a new Porsche cayenne v8 dsl for a simalar price !

you sure you are not mixing up the RR Vogue?

seriously though...142k for this?

Pique

kceire wrote: »

seriously though...142k for this?

As the saying goes, "Cheap to those who can afford it, very expensive to those who can't."

L-M

I'm not mad on the back lights.

A facelift of the previous model in silver would see me out.

Max Power1

goochy wrote: »

See one regularly near my job and can't believe how low down it is ( obviously to improve handling ) it lacks the presense of older models and looks too similar to sport mdl ! you also don't get a v8 dsl as std now I hear the v6 dsl is fast but it's still a v6 ! You can get a new Porsche cayenne v8 dsl for a simalar price !

Wasnt the previous gen standard a TDV6 with an optional TDV8?

Zubeneschamali

The new V8 model is 200 kgs lighter than the old.

goochy

From late 06 the tdv8 was launched as std in full size range rover , the sport had the option of both engines

Mr.David

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

The new V8 model is 200 kgs lighter than the old.

And the new V6 is almost 400kg lighter than the old V6.....

goochy

kceire wrote: »

you sure you are not mixing up the RR Vogue?

seriously though...142k for this?

The one I see is a proper range rover not sport seen pictures of new sport and it looks just as good as full size rr

wandatowell

Mr.David wrote: »

400kg lighter

:eek:

R.O.R

There is the 3.0 TDV6 Diesel in standard, Vogue and Autobiography trim, or the SDV8 4.4 in Vogue or Autobiography trim levels.

Feedback from my LR contact, while he was driving one in Morocco, was that it is a big leap from the old model, which was pretty impressive as it was.


One day, one day.........

Marcusm

Max Power1 wrote: »

Wasnt the previous gen standard a TDV6 with an optional TDV8?

V8 diesel was only introduced in 2007; guess Op's frame of reference is limited. Petrol v8s (like mine) are the longstanding style and the initial 3.6TDV8 was pretty quickly upped to a 4.4TDV8.

Also, when the OP says "new" has he seen the new full fat (launched a few months ago) or the new Sport which got Euro launch a few weeks ago? They're fairly different beasts.

101sean

The new RR and RRS are totally different beasts to the old ones, they are on the same aluminium chassis pan for starters hence the 400kg weight saving. The old RRS was on the Disco chassis which is pretty heavy in comparison.

Here's the two side by side at Dunsfold Land Rover show last weekend, I didn't like the old RRS but I prefer the new one over the full fat RR which looks bloated with too long a bonnet. The pressed in dummy door louvres are also wrong. I sat in it and it was very nice, they were part of the press fleet as senior management was at the event.



To give a contrast, this is a 60s Road Rover prototype under restoration

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L-M

goochy wrote: »

From late 06 the tdv8 was launched as std in full size range rover , the sport had the option of both engines

IIRC the RRS in the 3.6 wasnt far off the price of a RR. It was definitely near 100 k. I remember one in 08 it was a 3.6 RRS with adaptive lights, stormer wheels, sunroof etc. And it was definitely north of a 100k. The RR at the time was around 110 and when the new VRT came in that went up to 117 k iirc.

robertxxx

Can't see it selling in poor Ireland, less than 10.

But our friends in the uk are going crazy buying them, they are selling more than the previous model!

goochy

Marcusm wrote: »

V8 diesel was only introduced in 2007; guess Op's frame of reference is limited. Petrol v8s (like mine) are the longstanding style and the initial 3.6TDV8 was pretty quickly upped to a 4.4TDV8.

Also, when the OP says "new" has he seen the new full fat (launched a few months ago) or the new Sport which got Euro launch a few weeks ago? They're fairly different beasts.

Tdv8 was launched late 06 smart ass deer park motor co had 06mh reg one recently !

goochy

I am talking about the full fat one I know my cars !

Marcusm

goochy wrote: »

Tdv8 was launched late 06 smart ass deer park motor co had 06mh reg one recently !

Thanks for the gratuitous offence. I should have been more precise, it was the 2007 model year which would have been available at the end of 2006 although very few people in Ireland buy at that time.