What is it?
Simple, it’s a stretched Range Rover. It may sound crazy to suggest that some owners find a five-metre SUV rather short, but to the (mainly) Chinese and American buyers — already queueing around the block to buy the new, stretched Range Rover revealed late last year — the standard model always lacked rear legroom. In those markets, well-heeled owners are inclined to travel in the rear and hate not being able to stretch their legs.
To accommodate these people, Range Rover engineers have let 200mm (7.9in) of extra length into the wheelbase — all of it visible in the extended rear door. They’ve taken care to reinforce the basic aluminium monocoque structure to concede very little in torsional rigidity. The result is a rear compartment with genuine sprawling space, and the bonus of commanding rear seating, which no Rolls or Bentley can currently provide. As a bonus, you can now recline a Range Rover L rear seat twice as far as in the short wheelbase model. It all costs, of course — around £7400 extra, model for model.
In Britain, you can only get the long wheelbase as a TDV8 (diesel) or the full-fat 5.0-litre supercharged V8, although the 3.0-litre diesel V6 is to be sold in some markets where tax breaks favour smaller engines.
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artill
Given how expensive the basic
I suspect the longer version will quickly become the more popular model.
Peter Cavellini
Yep!!!!
carnut
I Like it!!!
However, competitors, 7 series, A8 and S class even Lexus LS, all offer LWB versions on their saloons, and you cant tell the difference unless its 2 vehicles parked side by side, so its NOT new that both versions designed at the same time, and also NOT new that the LWB does not look different, Autocar please stop kissing JLR's A**.
Winston ChurchiIl
What a deathtrap! Looks as
bomb
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billybobthethird
@winston churchill are you a
You can see from the picture it's being spanked around a test track and certainly doesn't look like it's about to tople over.
Winston ChurchiIl
billybobthethird
Not as slow as this turd of a car, which appears unable to negotiate a gentle bend without almost falling on its side.
275not599
Relax, billybobthethird.
289
...looks what it is...
I am sure this wont bother the Asians and Chinese as this still looks a million times better than anything they have designed, they are only interested in the badge anyway (and of course the rear leg room.....I have often wondered what they do with all this extra room they so desire...considering they are hardly a tall race...karaoke perhaps).
I have seen these long wheel base versions when I have been at Whitley and they are absolutely enormous...no photo quite prepares you for the shock!
Overdrive
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