Land Rover Lrx Concept

[Devinda_Z]

Its Official, the LRX is to be known as the 'Baby' Range Rover

Posted: 7:10am, 25 September 2009

As we speculated back in August the LRX will be launched in 2010 as a small Range Rover and will start to appear in dealerships in 2011.

Despite being a similar size to the Freelander, carrying a number of similar design cues and being manufactured at the same Halewood plant as the Freelander, Land Rover have finally confirmed that the LRX will be sold as part of the Range Rover family.

Designed and engineered at Land Rover's state of the art Gaydon facility, the new Range Rover will be the smallest, lightest and most efficient vehicle the company has ever produced.

Phil Popham, managing director of Land Rover said: “The production of a small Range Rover model is excellent news for our employees, dealers and customers. It is a demonstration of our commitment to investing for the future, to continue to deliver relevant vehicles for our customers, with the outstanding breadth of capability for which we are world-renowned."

"Feedback from our customer research also fully supports our belief that a production version of the LRX Concept would further raise the desirability of our brand and absolutely meet their expectations." Phil added.

Gerry McGovern, Land Rover design director said: "The new vehicle will be a natural extension to the Range Rover line-up, complementing the existing models and helping to define a new segment. It will be true to the concept and have many recognisable Range Rover design cues including the signature clamshell bonnet, the floating roof and the solid 'wheel-at-each-corner' stance."

LINKS:

www.landrover.com/LRX

Source : http://www.lro.com/news.php?sid=349&page=1

[Devinda_Z]

Land Rover LRX mule spotted at the Nurburgring

Posted: 12:20pm, 23 September 2009

The MotorAuthority.com website has spotted the LRX prototype 'mule' being given a shakedown at Germany's infamous Nurburgring

The LRX cannot really be described as a 'secret' project having attended all the major car shows over the past year but seeing it being 'mule' tested is a good indication that the vehicle has progressed a fair way from its initial 'concept' stage.

Mule testing is nothing new for Land Rover, basically it involves utilising the running gear, engine and transmission from the project vehicle but hiding it in an existing shell (we all remember the Freelander Maestro vans).

Reporters from MotorAuthority.com spotted this particular mule at The Ring and judging by the five-point harnesses being worn by the occupants and the racing helmet on the driver they were not intending to test the low-speed agility.

Full details can and more photos can be found over at www.motorauthority.com

LINKS:

www.motorauthority.com

www.landrover.com/LRX

Words: Simon Ward-Hastelow

Pictures: MotorAuthority.com

Source : http://www.lro.com/news.php?sid=345

[MasterDon]

Land Rover LRX mule spotted at the Nurburgring

Posted: 12:20pm, 23 September 2009

Source : http://www.lro.com/news.php?sid=345

and more spy shots...seems smaller than i anticipated

Range Rover LRX mule (2011) scooped in UK

By Tim Pollard

Spyshots

04 December 2009 12:41

The baby Rangie, the LRX, has been out on test in the Midlands this week. Our spy photographer snapped this cut-and-shut and generally chopped about Freelander near Land Rover's Gaydon HQ.

These new spy photos give an interesting view of the dimensions of the LRX – it'll be a short, squat bulldog of a 4x4, judging by its stance in these scoop pictures.

Please don't say the LRX is going to look like a baby Freelander!

Fret not. Land Rover design types promise they're going to try and retain plenty of the LRX concept's cheeky chunky looks, shrunken down to a RAV4 size footprint.

Of course, Land Rover has previous here; they made a similar promise about the Range Stormer which begat the rather too-watered-down Range Rover Sport. But this time word is they're keeping more of the LRX show car pizzazz for production.

Range Rover LRX: the timeline

We won't see finished car for a while yet. It's slated for a 2011 production slot (it'll be built at Halewood in the north west of England, pending any dramatic U-turn as Jaguar Land Rover has pledged to streamline its excess capacity).

That means we should see the finished car in late 2010. Next year is a big year for Range Rover, as it celebrates the brand's 40th anniversary. Showing the LRX at the end of the year could be the perfect way to show that big SUVs still have a future in the next decade. - http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Secret-new-ca...-scooped-in-UK/

[madmax]

Thought of reviving an old thread. The LRX is now in production as the Land Rover Evouque. What is more amusing is that the Evouque is very much identical to the LRX conept vehicle. Not many concept vehicles go into production looking the same.

I went down to the landrover dealership yesterday to test drive the new Evouque. Pretty impressive. Even the critics seem to agree. It won the Motor Trend SUV of the year for 2012. I'm just waiting till I can afford one.

Edited November 8, 2011 by madmax

[Scooter]

Problem is, unless yer running the vehicle off a Company or outta a Govt Dept, a motorist can never really afford to buy this marque! Don't matter how well off financially the private motorist is, there's better ways of thrashing yer money once the wheels is outta warranty. Just my opinion, of course.

[Gummybr]

Expect the Sri Lankan launch in in the next 4 - 5 weeks. Doubt whether there will be a big event, but it will definitely be launched end November mid December time. The prices will comparatively cheaper than what third party car importers are quoting.

[fonfe]

nice baby 4x4, nice drive, good looks. not worth it money wise in my opinion.

your paying for the RR badge, very much freelander 2 in the same way as disco4 and sport are underneath.

Id buy a HSE freelander2 i6 with my money.