The all-new Range Rover is a very important vehicle for the Jaguar Land Rover brand and shortly after its online unveiling, a handful of journalists have had the opportunity to check it out up close.
These videos come from Carfection, Top Gear, and Harry’s Garage highlight some of the key technical upgrades that differentiate this new model from its predecessor. As a means of making a statement, the new Range Rover is even better than its forebears.
Underpinning the new Range Rover is Land Rover’s MLA-Flex architecture that will give the automaker the flexibility to offer it with ICE, plug-in hybrid, and all-electric powertrains. The new body structure is 50 percent more rigid than the old one and the new car is 2.9-inches (75 mm) longer than the outgoing model. A long-wheelbase variant is also on the horizon.
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U.S. customers will be offered six and eight-cylinder engines from launch. The entry-level model has JLR’s P400 mild-hybrid 3.0-liter Ingenium turbocharged inline-six with 395 hp and 406 lb-ft of torque. New to the engine line-up is the same 4.4-liter twin-turbocharged V8 as the BMW X7 M50i, complete with 523 hp and 553 lb-ft of torque, all of which is sent to the pavement through a ZF eight-speed automatic transmission.
In the Old Continent, the new Range Rover is also available with 296 hp D300 and 345 hp D350 3.0-liter six-cylinder oil burners.
Two plug-in hybrids are also available, both of which use an Ingenium inline-six with a 38.2 kWh battery and a 105 kW electric motor in the transmission. The base plug-in hybrid, dubbed the P440e, is good for 434 hp while the more powerful P510e has 503 hp. The all-electric version will launch for the 2024 model year.