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The Drive » Land Rover
6M ago
Heritage Customs
Time is a flat circle, what’s old is always new again. Wheels aren’t quite flat, but bygone styles always come back into vogue. This time, what’s rolled back around is the three-spoke wheel, which is being revived for Range Rovers in impeccable, 23-inch style.
Designed by Heritage Customs, a Dutch coachbuilder known for customizing Land Rovers and turning them into convertibles, these “Canned Heat” wheels are a modernized take on the triangular tri-spokes from the original Range Rover “Classic.” They’re forged from 6061-T6 aluminum, diamond-cut, and then given a satin finish ..read more
The Drive » Land Rover
6M ago
Ford
The world hasn’t been shy with its desire to move towards electric cars. Governments from around the globe have even put a clock on the changeover—one of the most notable being the United Kingdom’s, which has committed to banning the sale of combustion-powered passenger cars by 2030.
Following a string of aggressive timeline planning over the past five years that sped up the transition by a full decade, the Brits are now looking to ease up on their proposed timeline. Now, according to Automotive News, manufacturers who were originally skeptical of the demanding deadline are warning tha ..read more
The Drive » Land Rover
9M ago
Goodwood Festival of Speed Facebook
The 2023 Goodwood Festival of Speed has been running all week long, and almost all chapters and subheadings of motorsports history have made an appearance. There’s been plenty of unique, odd-ball stuff thrown into the mix for good measure, too. That’s where the real entertainment lies. As such, The Drive’s Goodwood Odd-Ball Best In Show (I’m creating this award this very second) shall go to this BMW M-powered Land Rover Discovery 2.
Mercy, I can already hear the snarlings. “Two of the most unreliable automakers in history,” “what a dumb car,” and so on. B ..read more
The Drive » Land Rover
10M ago
Land Rover / oneightynyc
It’s no secret that life in New York City is expensive. From food to housing to parking your car, the high cost of living affects pretty much every good and service sold in the United States’ most-populated city. However, Land Rover Brooklyn’s service department has taken things to the eye-popping extreme by charging owners $499.99 per hour for labor—and nearly $500 for a standard oil change.
An Instagram Reel posted by oneightynyc, a car customization shop located in Coney Island, alerted me to this are-you-serious labor rate. I reached out to Land Rover Brooklyn v ..read more
The Drive » Land Rover
10M ago
JLR
Jaguar Land Rover, now known as JLR, is restructuring the way its brands work. As a part of that restructuring, it just got a new logo. I typically hesitate to quote a press release directly, but the automaker claims its new branding “embodies elegance, modernity and the company’s forward-thinking essence.” Big words for a logo that looks like it belongs on the door of a local contractor.
Maybe that’s a little harsh, but as numerous automakers move toward logos that try to say more with less, JLR’s could’ve used a hair more effort. It’s unlikely this branding will actually end up on any ..read more
The Drive » Land Rover
11M ago
Heritage Customs
No matter how much you spend on it, a Jeep Wrangler never becomes … nice. You need to start with something nicer, such as the Land Rover Defender 90, which Dutch coachbuilder Heritage Customs can remove the roof from and redo its interior for an open-top SUV that’s as comfortable crawling as it is cruising.
Heritage calls the off-roader the Valiance Convertible, and it starts with the smallest in the lineup, the two-door Defender 90, as its donor vehicle. (We’d make sure it has the supercharged 518-horsepower V8.) It excises the SUV’s roof to install a power-retracting conv ..read more
The Drive » Land Rover
1y ago
Land Rover
The Land Rover Defender 130 is awfully long and heavy despite not having a 130-inch wheelbase as its name suggests. Although massive, it has yet to be offered with the range-topping supercharged V8 found in the two-row Defender 110, and even the smaller two-door Defender 90. That changes now. Along with 493 horsepower, it also gets a new Outbound trim which offers a handful of other changes to differentiate it from the more pedestrian specs of the longest-wheelbase Defender.
The regular 130 V8 is the three-row eight-cylinder family hauler that most LR enthusiasts with families wi ..read more
The Drive » Land Rover
1y ago
Land Rover
The historic Land Rover brand will take a back seat as Jaguar Land Rover tries to reinvent itself in transition toward a fully electric lineup. Instead, Land Rover’s bestselling product lines will have their identities strengthened so they can be treated as their own brands.
The shift was confirmed to Motortrend, and explained by Gerry McGovern, chief creative officer at JLR. He said that because customers already refer to their Land Rovers by nameplate, and not as Land Rovers, the automaker itself might as well follow those naming conventions.
“People tell us they drive a Range ..read more
The Drive » Land Rover
1y ago
Lego
As an avid Lego fan (and much to my wife’s dismay, collector), it feels like Lego is pushing way too hard on the product licensing end. From Disney to Harry Potter, Adidas, and, of course, a ton of car brands, the Danish toy company has been cranking out kits for every customer demographic under the sun—and sometimes those products don’t look too great. But just as I was thinking it’s all a bit much, Lego redeems itself with a truly fantastic Land Rover Classic Defender 90 set.
Lego
Revealed Thursday morning, the new/old Defender is 2,336 pieces of old-school, off-roady goodness wrappe ..read more
The Drive » Land Rover
1y ago
Range Rover
For all intents and purposes, the new 2023 Land Rover Range Rover seems like a very fine luxury SUV that does much of what it has always done: deliver on a very opulent ride for a lot of money. But if the regular $100,000-plus starting price isn’t high enough for Your Supreme Majesty Highness, the 2023 Range Rover SV Carmel Edition is here as a limited edition of the SUV that’ll start at $346,475. Yes, that’s with the $1,475 destination fee included.
With a price tag that’s easily triple that of a regular Range Rover and nearly double of a Range Rover SV, you’d naturally believe ..read more