All New Range Rover 2013 Revealed

[Cliosaregay]

Saw this when i was coming back from CSS this year but it was covered in the concept car vinyl wrap! quite like it but i think range rovers are beginning to look a bit girly lol thoughts???

http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/news/new-range-rover-revealed-080845418.html

 

[aucky]

£98,395 for the range-topping supercharged petrol model.

First division players need not apply.

 

[Englebert]

Think they did a great job personally. Look modern, but still undoubtedly a Range Rover.

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Saw a 62 plate Range Rover yesterday so I assume it was this.
Personally I have no interest in these utterly pointless 'cars'.

 

[Sam@NP]

The king is dead. Long live the king

 

[Adam G]

Believe me it's lovely close up.
Great workforce.
Jag's better now though, bring on the F type. On XJ, which is actually the block where they used to build Spitfires in the war, the building still shows the camo.

 

[NoahRobinson07]

IMO it looks like a range rover was going really fast and its face just got pulled back.

Not quite as mean as the last model. But then again, more people are buying them for the road then the fields nowadays.

 

[Adam G]

Exactly, it's more of an exec limo than ever now.

 

[NoahRobinson07]

Exactly, it's more of an exec limo than ever now.

If I wanted a luxury car that could make it when it snows, then I'd buy one of these or the sports.

However if I wanted a proper off-roader like these use to be, now I'd go for something like a Landcruiser or if I really was mental A bowler of some description, theres no real rugged of roaders anymore.

 

[Adam G]

Yeah,the Defender Concept hardly looks like it wants to be driven by a farmer.

 

[ch!ppen]

Why bother... They spend more time broken than they do on the road. Terrible things.

 

[Jason_E]

Been watching this thing in testing for a month or two now. Seem's to go well! And off road too.

 

[ado]

Believe me it's lovely close up.
Great workforce.
Jag's better now though, bring on the F type. On XJ, which is actually the block where they used to build Spitfires in the war, the building still shows the camo.

New F type should be very nice. There should be quite a few round right now.

The old spitfire building is actually a warehouse and drivetrain assembly for XK and XJ.

 

[Adam G]

Nearly mate, it's F block which is where I work. It's XJ trim and final.

 

[Naith]

China approves.

 

[Jason_E]

I've been up at MIRA so I've been watching the Rangey and the F Type test. The Jag sounds so cool

 

[Englebert]

Saw a 62 plate Range Rover yesterday so I assume it was this.
Personally I have no interest in these utterly pointless 'cars'.

LOL! Wonder how many normal punters would say that about an Exige...

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Put an Exige has a point, an epic sports car.

Whats the point of a Range Rover? Why not buy a nice estate that is just as practical, and doesn't make you look like a penis owning it?

 

[Gally]

What's the point of a RR really? They have been the epitome of luxury 4x4 for years. If anything the Sports ruined the RR image a little.

A bit unreliable on the whole sometimes but simply fantastic machines.

 

[VeinAST]

I'll wait ten years until its £10k rather than £100k

 

[DaveDreads]

I've been seeing this thing on the road for the last year in it's camo/optical illusion wrap.

The A46 from Cov to Stratford was a test route for it, so almost every week i'd see it on the road,
even with the wrap I thought it looked gash, now I can see it in all it's glory I know I was right.

I've no doubt it's a lovely car to drive and very comfortable inside,
but I wouldn't have one, or any Range Rover for that matter, I've never liked them even when my best mate had a Vogue.

 

[Ash.]

Perfect in my eyes! In the next few years I really hope I'll be having one as my daily no rr sport I agree with gally on his point a proper one all the way!

 

[Bluebeard]

I love them and would have a brand new one in warranty, but I wouldn't touch a used one. Ticking time bombs!!

 

[Dan@M.A.D]

They are good when they work. Not really keen on this one to be honest and the evoque is starting o look dated or is it just me?

As Daniel says if they are in warranty you are ok. My dad's RRS was 1 month out of warranty and the cambelt tensioner sheared off writing the hole engine off. Wasn't even due a cambelt change. £7k for a new engine!

 

[Ash.]

Agreed got to be a new one my defended was a pain while it was in warranty it was always breaking touch would once it was three years old everything was ok or all new lol

 

[Ash.]

They are good when they work. Not really keen on this one to be honest and the evoque is starting o look dated or is it just me?

As Daniel says if they are in warranty you are ok. My dad's RRS was 1 month out of warranty and the cambelt tensioner sheared off writing the hole engine off. Wasn't even due a cambelt change. £7k for a new engine!

PDA friend of mine had that happen to there sport and land rover stood the bill!

 

[Dan@M.A.D]

PDA friend of mine had that happen to there sport and land rover stood the bill!

They offered 20% which was a complete piss take to be honest, He tried every root possible to get more but they wouldn't do anything which is bloody ridiculous considering it was a fault in the casting of the engine casing that caused the issue.

End result was he cancelled the order for the evoque and bought a BMW so their loss really!

 

[Tomas]

What faults to range rovers get? I thought they where practically bomb proof lol

 

[Dan@M.A.D]

What faults to range rovers get? I thought they where practically bomb proof lol

Air suspension went twice,
Handbrake cable twice which is £1000!!!
Fuel pump packed up
Something went wrong with the steering wheel iirc!
The EGR valves are pretty dodgy aswell, There is always black smoke pooring out the back of them.

 

[Gally]

Pm Waitey. He laughs a lot at reliability.

 

[Bluebeard]

What faults to range rovers get? I thought they where practically bomb proof lol

The Amps pack up on the back of the head units.
Headgaskets are weak on the early ones.
Suspension bags are pretty fragile for a 2 tonne truck.
Central locking is a bit tempremental.
Expansion bottles go brittle and fracture.
Front and rear discs/pads are £900 fitted...

They're just not very good.

As this guy found out.

 

[Tomas]

Wow I'm surprised reading these! But isn't it the luck of the draw?

 

[Bluebeard]

Wow I'm surprised reading these! But isn't it the luck the draw?

No.

They are terrible for reliability. I've had 4 now and every single one has had loads of faults. The ones i've listed are (in my experience) the most common ones. EGR valves are another poorly designed issue.

Some of the time though, people buy them from the local used car dealer for £10,000 and drive it around like a £10,000 mondeo. They are thick. They seem to forget that this is a £60k+ car when it was new and needs the same deep pockets to maintain it properly. These retards then drive it into the ground until the garage fails its MOT and then they s**t their pants and sell it. Leaving some other unsuspecting moron to start with it all over again.

But i'm not trying to disguise the fact, they are NOT reliable cars.

 

[ant_r27]

Wow I'm surprised reading these! But isn't it the luck the draw?

Yes, except the odds are stacked very much against you!


Brother has owned 2 Range Rovers, and whilst nothing went catestrophically wrong engine/gearbox wise, it was the niggly things constantly going wrong that bordered on ridiculous.

The electrics were were particularly suspect; so many times his nav/stereo/climate/dash would fail and repeatedly fail after being fixed by the dealer.

Got to the point where I thought he'd actually bought a Freelander; except that was just his courtesy car he'd used to get.


Having said that; he still went on to buy another - which in turn was similarly unreliable. Fool.



On the looks of the new one, I just find some of the small details quite horrendous. Some of the light and grill details look so "chintzy" and nasty - even the recent facelifted current models are guilty of it.

It looks to me like the car is getting further and further away from it's understated classy looks to follow its new breed of customer where it's all about nasty and ostentation bling.

 

[mjogreen]

I definitely agree with someone above. New with warranty I'd jump at it, but used I'd rather drive a Dacia Duster.

 

[Bluebeard]

Yes, except the odds are stacked very much against you!


Brother has owned 2 Range Rovers, and whilst nothing went catestrophically wrong engine/gearbox wise, it was the niggly things constantly going wrong that bordered on ridiculous.

The electrics were were particularly suspect; so many times his nav/stereo/climate/dash would fail and repeatedly fail after being fixed by the dealer.

Got to the point where I thought he'd actually bought a Freelander; except that was just his courtesy car he'd used to get.


Having said that; he still went on to buy another - which in turn was similarly unreliable. Fool.



On the looks of the new one, I just find some of the small details quite horrendous. Some of the light and grill details look so "chintzy" and nasty - even the recent facelifted current models are guilty of it.

It looks to me like the car is getting further and further away from it's understated classy looks to follow its new breed of customer where it's all about nasty and ostentation bling.

I won't let my children travel in my sisters anymore because 50% of the time it will lock itself and refuse to unlock. My sisters been sat in if for hours at a time before!! Some days it locks, then go back to it 8 hours later and its all unlocked.

She's fcuked though because everytime she's tried to sell it/px it, something has gone wrong on the test drive or while the potential buyer has been looking at it. The last one saw the return of a common fault of hers, where by the car (when hot) and sat there idling will all of a sudden bellow out white smoke for 2-3 minutes. Its been to RR, to RR specialists, to BMW (3.0d bmw engine) and to bmw specialists... Nobody can fault it. They acknowledge there's a problem but its not losing oil/water or anything else and drives superb.

Avoid imo. Unless you've got one under 3years old.

 

[ch!ppen]

Lol'd at reading all the above. So true it's unreal. As i said, shocking things...

 

[Tomas]

Cannot believe what I'm reading, you wouldn't think a Range Rover would suffer from these faults, especially ones as serious as these!

 

[Sean.]

spent the last 4 weeks in the states testing the F-type, fell in love with it

 

[aterro]

I know loads of people with range rovers. 57-2012 age era. And ive not heard one complaint from any of them. they all love them.

the only time ive ever heard something bad about them, is in this thread.

they probably all have warrenty on them mind haha!