Comments on: 2012 Range Rover L405 might go all-aluminium

By: Renato

Renato — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:35:17 +0000

Range Rover 2012

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:45:19 +0000

Better late than never on this subject.

Unfortunately Land Rover is trying to satisfy everyone. They satisfy the wealthier client by making it luxurious; the urban drag racer by making it faster and more powerful, and the style queens by making it look like all the other cars on the road. Of course today, there are few individuals who know what a true off-road vehicle is, or even know how to handle one. Land Rover now makes their vehicles capable of going off-road for the mentally impaired when they have to maneuver through the shopping mall parking lot. Heaven forbid if they were actually forced to deal with a situation that might ruffle their ever widening behinds.

Believe it or not, Land Rover made the earlier models with aluminum bodies, so this is nothing new. Of course nobody in this crowd bought them then. I’ve owned three Land Rovers (one I drive daily today), starting with a 1969 which only had a 4 cylinder. It was a kidney killer, but man what an experience through New Mexico and Arizona.

You bought one when you wanted, or needed to get yourself out of the mud, or sand, or go through the brush, where it didn’t matter if the sides got scratched. They were all manual shift, and having to actually handle the vehicle made the experience even more meaningful. When you were through at the end of the day, you felt like you wrestled a bear, but the experience was exhilarating. Of course the well heeled crowd would never understand that kind of mentality; it might actually jostle their martini. The best Land Rover is the 110, but of course they don’t import them here anymore; only to other countries where people actually use them for what they were intended.

By: joseph

joseph — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:58:13 +0000

one thing isdriving a 4×4 in the city from monday to friday, where the range rover smothness and luxury is really appreciated, and another is a really off-road terrain, where a regular one is excellent and 500 kilograms do make difference, even when it would be still 2TN, heavier than many other SUV…
so I think that a hybrid (without prius problems) would be demanded, it would be liek having two different cars…

By: hlayseka

hlayseka — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:53:33 +0000

range rover has gone babanananaas

By: dnm_m7

dnm_m7 — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:35:59 +0000

Ugly! most likely won’t be purchasing a Range Rover after 2011 – if this is really what the 2012 model is set to look like.

By: mothersuperior

mothersuperior — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:02:47 +0000

Alu can be light, strong and TOUGH. There's more to it than pots and pans!

When alloyed by Mg,Ti, etc it can be as strong as "steel", and that is why it has been used for umpteen years on airplanes, armoured vehicles, sports ind. etc. Alu/alloys are used in the automotive industry for wide ranging parts, power, structural, panels etc. and in order to fulfil new legislation it can make cars even lighter and stronger. Even the GM Hummer uses an armour grade alu. The Range Rover is a superb car. Most popular vehicle with soccer stars in Britain.

By: kei9

kei9 — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:48:21 +0000

nice……sloping rooofline…go for the carbon fibre laa! just like the merc mclaren f1

By: albagmane

albagmane — Wed, 30 May 2007 21:46:17 +0000

wow wow wow… when talking bout this high end luxury 4wd, i only manage to wow only lar… not tat lucky to have a chance to own this masterpiece…

By: BanyakMasukWorkshop

BanyakMasukWorkshop — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:25:07 +0000

acbc, aluminum by itself is soft and weak. but with the proper engineering, it can can create a car chassis thats light, as well as very strong and stiff.

Paul, any idea if Jaguar's alloy chassis was developed by lotus? i believe the allow chassis in the aston martin is by lotus. so i'm guessing it must be.

but aluminium use is nothing new for land rover. even the old landrover series1 from 40 years ago uses aluminium body panels and continues with the landrover defender today.

By: aesthari

aesthari — Wed, 30 May 2007 13:57:39 +0000

15 years? Won't that make it 2021?? It'll be cool if they make the whole body unpainted aluminium, just like how DMC built Deloreans with a stainless steel body!

By: tokmoh

tokmoh — Wed, 30 May 2007 13:54:17 +0000

It'll be extremely expensive if they use carbon fibre……T.T

By: motherker

motherker — Wed, 30 May 2007 10:33:15 +0000

why not got for carbon fibre then? its lighter and proven to be more stronger than steel

By: McQueen_CARz

McQueen_CARz — Tue, 29 May 2007 23:15:24 +0000

Our old Proton Saga much better, using the "Milo Tin" material… Muahahaha…

By: acbc

acbc — Tue, 29 May 2007 23:11:29 +0000

Aluminum is light and strong but not tough. Quite ok for Range Rover (it has become a luxury brand) because people tend to drive around town and city areas.

By: mystvearn

mystvearn — Tue, 29 May 2007 23:09:35 +0000

will it still be strong?

By: xg9

xg9 — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:27:30 +0000

all aluminium…. just like my LG handphone.. hahaha..

By: mmcwei

mmcwei — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:06:55 +0000

OMG…this is truly a beauty new range rover…land rover is the best off-roaders in the world!!! i love land rover…but still a long way to go before it launched…PAUL, can you provide more pic of the front, interior and others? will this new model using the previous range rover's engines-4.2 SC, TDV8, TDV6, 4.4 V8?

By: ab

ab — Tue, 29 May 2007 20:41:47 +0000

itell u, even with all the weight savings plan, come 2012 they will still manage to load it up to over 2 tonnes

By: transformer

transformer — Tue, 29 May 2007 20:34:56 +0000

Cool!

this would help it to sprint faster!

By: Capt Shopalot

Capt Shopalot — Tue, 29 May 2007 20:03:37 +0000

Much friendly to environment

By: szw

szw — Tue, 29 May 2007 19:48:31 +0000

light 4×4 ?

hmm…

does it make much difference ?