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Defender towing test I Max Out a New Land Rover Defender and Take It Up the World's Toughest Towing Test! TFLTruck

- Lift rods expose IS shortcomings - Video of TC struggling on broken down granite/marbles is no different than the DII demo I witnessed almost 20 years ago. Little new here. it's not "rock crawling". It's an everyday trail in Colorado.

UK to ban petrol, diesel and hybrids as early as 2032.

My point was that a V8 was standard production, not "specialized" with the associated SVX mark-up. In fact a V8 cost adder should be less than today's MHEV I6 cost adder which we have estimated to be in the $7K-$8K range.

D90 delayed Jaguar Land Rover’s cost-cutting target swells to $3.3 billion https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/foreign/2020/07/31/jaguar-land-rovers-cost-cutting-target-swells-billion/112621242/

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The most impressive aspect of the new Defender is the adoption of Blackberry QNX hypervisor.

Range Rover had ETC in 93'. ALL features are first intro'd on RR and moved into volume on Land Rover models. Edit add: In the grand scheme Discovery and Defender are lesser models compared to Range Rover.

A trail previously run by 60's / 70's era International Scouts ....... LR added ETC in 93'? (Reverse ABS)

Oh, and why tow ratings are so important in today's world ................... the "gig" economy ............. As Americans Ditch Airports And Hotels, RV Boom Saved GDP From Even Bigger Collapse "We didn't anticipate this turn being as strong as it has been," Craig Kirby, RVIA's president...

Wow. That's going to put a dent in everyone else's demand models.

Here is what I expect "base camp" (the travel trailer) AND the tow vehicle to support. Montana by Land Rover Paul J. Driscoll / June 19th, 2020 https://expeditionportal.com/montana-by-land-rover/ Yes, I'll be gone for weeks at a time and virtually living full time out of the camper. Stop at a...

What part of Class IV did you miss? Why class IV? Well here is one example, a Lance 2285 with a GVWR of 7,000 lbs (OK, that should work) and a hitch dry weight of 635 lbs. That is without ANY options and without provisions for dry camping. You are going to come in at close to 900lb tongue...

I'm a cheap bastard (I know, you run Land Rovers so ******) but I am not going to dedicate financial resources to multiple trucks for specific purposes. I have other toys to maintain. I expect, as a minimum, a candidate to be equal to or better than my HD 2011 LR4, 400hp/400lbft, Rhino hitch AND be...

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Pivi Pro is Blackberry QNX RTOS hypervisor running on Qualcom Snapdragon 820Am ASIC BRAINS AND BRAWN: RUGGED NEW LAND ROVER DEFENDER SHOWCASES WORLD-FIRST DUAL eSIM CONNECTIVITY AT CES 2020 "........Land Rover will showcase its advanced Pivi Pro technology at the Consumer Electronics Show...

JLR's primary issue is Jaguar but Land Rover has also not been profitable. Maybe select models but as a whole it hasn't. As Land Rover moved away from its roots, offering slick new SUV's, they actually overlapped with Jaguar. Jaguar was slow to offer SUV's. I'm thinking there is opportunity to...

Should be an interesting 4Q/1Q for JLR Who is Jaguar Land Rover’s new boss and what does he need to do? CoventryLive talks to Dr Charles Tennant on where the Coventry car maker might go from here "........CoventryLive spoke to automotive industry expert Charles Tennant about Mr Bolloré’s...

Hmm.................................... Tata Taps Former Renault Chief Bolloré To Put Out Jaguar Land Rover Bonfire Former Renault chief executive officer Thierry Bolloré will take over at the Tata-owned Jaguar Land Rover in September. Bolloré will replace JLR’s 10-year CEO, Sir Ralf Speth...

The travel trailer vendors spec dry tongue weight from which options add to it from there, either increasing or decreasing tongue weight. It would be prudent for tow vehicle candidates to spec without full payload and let the consumer close the gap between TV and trailer depending on personal...