While other makers are counting on on the internet video streams or little personal events to expose their newest models, it was refreshing to see Land Rover choose an old-school, celebrity-studded, champagne-soaked extravaganza. From what I’ve seen the new variety Rover is completely capable of taking the hype, as well as whatever else, in its stride.

The place – the royal Ballet institution in London’s sprawling Richmond Park – couldn’t have been a lot more apt. originally commissioned as a hunting lodge by George I in 1727, it was occupied by the Queen mom for lots of years as well as house to Queen Elizabeth II as a baby. In short it’s a British organization – just like the cars and truck introduced there last night.
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It was fitting that a handful of our triumphant British Olympic team were in attendance, including Zara Philips, Victoria Pendleton as well as Greg Rutherford, in addition to a choice of models, pop stars as well as England rugby players, to lend the event a extremely variety Rover-esque balance between sophistication as well as tough charm.
Any partygoers under the perception that the variety Rover is a gin palace on four wheels, or developed mostly for the institution run in Chelsea, were put firmly in their location when it made its spectacular entrance. Appearing unexpectedly at the back of a man-made lake, it plunged into the water as much as its bonnet, waded across as well as clambered over a series of rocks before rolling onto the stage.
At very first glance, it’s all as well simple to reject this new variety Rover as a lightly fettled version of the present car, however provided the possibility to see it in the metal as well as speak to the engineers, it was remove the phrase ‘all-new’ barely does it justice.
At the heart of all the new model’s gains is an aluminium body-shell that evaluates 180kg less than the previous generation’s steel structure. In truth it’s lighter than a BMW 3 Series’ shell as well as evaluates just a few kilos a lot more than the tiny Countryman.
By stripping 420kg out in total, the knock-on gains include higher fuel economy, improved security as well as much better handling. OK, so we’ll have to wait up until we drive it to verify the latter, however I’d bet my home that it feels substantially a lot more agile from behind the wheel.

It’s not commonly a new design take such a gigantic leap ahead as well as takes such a significant chunk out of the competition. as well as it’s even rarer when the outgoing cars and truck is already ahead of the pack. Make no mistake, the new variety Rover has rewritten the policy book, as well as ranks firmly as yet one more British success story this summer.