Land Rover: Experience the current Range in motion 🎥
FILM AB For over 50 years, the British icon has been the unrivaled template for all luxury SUVs. Now comes the fifth model generation - and it once again raises the bar in many areas. Take a seat.
The design of the new Range is spectacular. Sleek, no-frills and no corners.
With a length of 5.05 meters, or 5.25 meters in the long-wheelbase version, the Range Rover has grown by six centimeters on the outside, but it has really grown under the sheet metal.
Nevertheless, this sheet metal also deserves a few words, because the design of the new Range is spectacular - and that's because it is so reduced (video above). It is smooth, sleek, and without corners and edges, but so clean that even the moldings on the window line have been dispensed with.
Elaborate make of the new generation
Nothing has been changed in the typical proportions and little in the face, but the rear stands out with very narrow LED lights in portrait format, hidden in black elements and connected horizontally.
For this purpose, the LEDs are mounted so that they shine inwards and their light is then reflected outwards - just one detail of many that illustrates the elaborate design of the new generation.
The Range has been tested over one million test kilometers, with 125 patents pending.
Trial over one million test kilometers
And the effort was enormous: the new Range was developed by 7000 people over five years in more than seven million hours and tested on more than one million test kilometers, with 125 patents filed (center video).
A few examples? 35 speakers with up to 1,600 watts of music power provide the occupants with sound, with two speakers in each headrest with active noise cancellation to block out driving noise.
A filter system cleans the air of odors, allergens, bacteria and viruses, while in the rear you can lounge on feudal reclining seats with a full-length center console complete with integrated tablet and electrically extendable folding tables. For the first time, there is also a third row of seats (LWB only).
Compensation system against annoying movements
The air suspension acts with foresight and, together with the roll compensation system, irons out unwanted body movements, while the all-wheel drive measures the grip level at each wheel 100 times per second and distributes the power accordingly. Thanks to all-wheel steering, the turning circle shrinks to less than eleven meters - remarkable for this colossus (video below).
Air suspension and roll compensation system iron out unwanted body movements.
Electric range of up to 100 kilometers
There is a choice of a 3-liter diesel with 250, 300 or 350 hp, a 3-liter gasoline engine with 400 hp and a 4.4-liter V8 with 530 hp. Two plug-in hybrids with an electric range of up to 100 kilometers will follow somewhat later in the year.
"These variants will be particularly popular with us," says Damian Donnellan, head of Jaguar Land Rover Switzerland, who is also looking forward to the first all-electric Range Rover - it should be ready in 2024. Prices start at 138,200 Swiss francs, and the Swiss market launch is in April.
Text: Dave Schneider
