This week, Land Rover has introduced a new high end version of the Range Rover Sport SVR, with the Ultimate edition. The upgraded car comes with a hefty premium on top of the standard SVR and adds a number of new styling details, but the engine remains the same supercharged 5.0-litre V8, with 567bhp and 516lb ft torque – giving the car the ability to hit 0-60mph in 4.3 seconds. […]
Land Rover has announced a new limited edition version of the Defender, called the Trophy Edition which pays tribute to the famous Camel Trophy expedition vehicles used in off road challenges between 1980 and 2000. The new limited edition Defender is only available in the US, with only 220 being produced. Each car features a yellow paint job, with black bonnet, roof and side skirts. Land Rover’s retro logo is […]
Today, JLR has introduced a new V8 version of the Land Rover Defender, with the same engine as the Jaguar F-Type, Range Rover Sport with 518bhp and 461lb ft torque. The V8 Defender is on sale from today with pricing at £98,505 for the 90 and £101,150 for the five-door 110. Thanks to the much more powerful engine, it can now do 0-60mph in 5.2 seconds with a top speed […]
Back when the Defender went on sale earlier this year and the prices were announced, there was promise of a plug-in hybrid variant to join the range and now this week, Land Rover has revealed it, the P400e will have 398bhp in total, with 296bhp coming from a 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol engine and 139bhp coming from the electric motor. In pure electric mode, the Defender P400e will be able to […]
This week, Land Rover has updated the Range Rover Evoque and the Land Rover Discovery Sport with a new hybrid engine choice as well as improved infotainment to bring it up to date with the new Defender. The new engine is a 2.0-litre four cylinder diesel with a mild-hybrid add on, which is 48V. The new engine comes in two versions, the D165 with 161bhp and the D200 with 201bhp, […]
Back at the end of March, Jaguar Land Rover announced that it would have to close its three factories here in the UK due to the coronavirus and the need for social distancing and less vital companies is less important. Jaguar Land Rover has a number of factories here in the UK, Castle Bromwich, Halewood and Solihull and today the company announced that its hoping to open the Solihull plant […]
To help the NHS and also the British Red Cross provide supplies, food and physical help for those unfortunately affected by the ongoing coronavirus – Jaguar Land Rover is temporarily lending one hundred and sixty brand new vehicles for deployment world-wide. JLR has lent fifty-seven vehicles to the British Red Cross so far, which will be used here in the UK for food and medicine to be distributed to those […]
So far this week, a few car companies who have factories here in the UK have stopped production temporarily, due to the ongoing outbreak and issues with coronavirus. This week, Nissan announced that its Sunderland factory would be closed for a while and now Jaguar Land Rover is the latest company to do the same. Jaguar Land Rover has a number of factories in the UK and production will stop […]
Land Rover pulled the iconic original Defender from sale back in 2016 for a variety of reasons, mostly for safety and emissions. During that time, the company has teased few concepts and then in September last year at the Frankfurt Motor Show, Land Rover unveiled the brand new Defender and today, the pricing for the entry level versions have been announced. Land Rover New Defender 90 officially goes on sale from today […]
Bowler, who you may have heard of if you watched the old incarnation of Top Gear at all as a yellow Bowler actually appeared in the first season of the 2002 Top Gear series. Where Richard Hammond said “I am a driving god!” Anyway, back to Bowler who have long been a name in modifying mainly Land Rover Defenders, but they have tinkered with a few Range Rovers too. Bowler have been […]
