carblog888: First Test Range Rover 2013

First Test Range Rover 2013 front

The new king to travel

Land Rover is satisfied with the new Range Rover developed the "best car in the world" to have. This claim, we went on the first date on the driving reason.

It is not just a simple job, the Land Rover's chief designer Gerry McGovern. More than in most other brands he managed a remarkable cultural heritage car. This includes not only the Defender , but of course, the style icon of the house, the Range Rover . As of 1970 went to the start, it was only the second model in the still young brand. Today there are with the Evoque and the Range Rover Sport is already a small family that is expected to grow in the future quite yet.

The greatest appeal but still the head of the family. And he has a long life: the 2013 model year is only the fourth-generation Range Rover in 42 years, and that has to last for the next ten years. Fast moving product cycles are not the cause of the Lord under the SUV, the successor until 2023 hits the road.

If you invest as much in the future, must make more thorough work, because in the luxury SUV segment, the air will become even much thinner after brands such as Bentley and Maserati also want a piece of the pie.

The shape is unmistakably Range Rover

Formally, the path has been successful in the future, which, we recall the uninspired Range Rover P38 in 1994, does not come naturally. The new unmistakably Range Rover , although it shows some quite extravagant detailed solutions - from the narrow expiring in the pages up to the taillights mounted gills on the front doors, which are to visually conceal the body length. Externally, the new Range Rover has grown only slightly, but it seemed hardly necessary. After all, the previous instance was a remarkable phenomenon. With 4.99 meters in length, the new scratch now quite low in the six-yard-line, the wheelbase has been extended to 2.92 meters.

The greatest pride of the developers is of course the all-aluminum body, which brings down the weight drastically. In conjunction with other lightweight components - for example, the chassis is made of aluminum - the base model now weighs 420 pounds less than the previous version.

RANGE ROVER MY 2013 - SPECIFICATIONS

Model	Range Rover 3.0 TDV6	Range Rover 4.4 SDV8	Range Rover 5.0 S / C
Length / Width / Height	4.999/1.983/1.835 mm	4.999/1.983/1.835 mm	4.999/1.983/1.835 mm
Tare	from 2160 kg	from 2360 kg	from 2330 kg
Engine	V6 turbodiesel	V8 turbo diesel	V8 supercharged petrol engine
Capacity	2993 ccm	4367 ccm	4999 ccm
Performance	190 kW/258 hp	250 kW/339 hp	375 kW/510 hp
Torque	600 Nm	700 Nm	625 Nm
Transmission	8-speed automatic	8-speed automatic	8-speed automatic
Standard consumption	7.5 liter D	8.7-liter D	13.8 l S
Tank volume	85 l	105 l	105 l
Acceleration 0-100 km / h	7.9 s	6.9 s	5.4 s
vmax	209 km / h	217 km / h	225 (opt. 250) km / h
Price HSE	89,100, - EUR	-	-
Price Vogue	98,900, - EUR	107 100, - EUR	113 600, - EUR
Price Autobiography	112 400, - EUR	120 600, - EUR	127 100, - EUR

Thanks to its low weight, the V6 toxic properly

This weight saving is due to but also the engine. Because of the lightweight construction it is enough now, "only" build a six-cylinder engine in the base version, the heavier V8 engines cost extra. The TDV6 is the Land Rover Discovery known new generation of engines, from the three-liter six-cylinder engine produces 258 hp and 600 Nm. And accurately with this engine we went to our first test run, on-and off-road.

The current Range Rover TDV8 certainly was not a slow car, but he always clung to this sublime heaviness, if you wanted to move a little faster. Profane you could also say he was pretty cumbersome. No cops and no acceleration curve monster of large diesel-range left the always hectic SUV middle class. This situation has now changed but a little. With 2.16 tons, which promise the data sheet as empty weight, is the Range Rover although still far from ascetic elite athletes, but the drastic weight loss in the first meters tangible. Especially with the new base engine, which we already extensively as SDV6 the Discovery and Range Rover Sport (base weight about 2.7 tonnes each) were able to try.

First thought: Is this really the same engine? Amazing how fast, almost aggressively responded to the six-cylinder engine is the lightest twitch accelerator and immediately takes the bait. Finely managed by the eight-speed automatic are without shoulders thrust, without the three-liter cooling.

The 2013 Range Rover sport springs

Add to this the new chassis, which not only due to the reduction of fat Range Rover emphasizes footed comes along, the turf was also evident in a sporty direction. A piece of thick-soften suspension comfort was the Range Rover indeed already lost in his last technology-facelift 2010th The fourth generation shifts the priority again in the direction of serpentine glow: the active suspension reduces body roll significantly, the vote is more sporty, taut and almost feels a little German, although third-class roads with nasty holes and imperfections in the Range Rover MY 2013 possibly a bored rumbling in the distance are worth. The cushioning effect corresponds well with the vehicle price.

Every effort the developers put on the road noise. On all edges, transitions, and body parts has long been filed and fiddled, there was a double engine bulkhead and special sealed motor bearings for the new development. As a result, not only can see the aerodynamics, it's really quiet in the enclosure. At a speed of 100 the place to meet in the new Range Rover as relaxed chatting on a park bench.

The coolness factor has increased significantly with the new equipment line. Although the fixtures board with its multiple levels clearly follows the design language of its predecessor, but it has been properly cleansed. Many functions lost their separate switches and buttons, they will in future controlled by the central display with touch screen. Again significantly expanded the color and material combinations that you can paper their individual Range Rover.

The site continues to be a benchmark

Terrain he can still, which is its most important in today's times. Land Rover also know why and thus eliminated simultaneously with a silly prejudice: according to a customer survey, 85 percent of Range Rover owners gave to protocol to use their car and off road. So the Terrain Response system has been further adjusted and supplemented by an extended auto mode. Terrain Response 2 also informs the driver when it is time to go, for example, the landing gear up or insert the reduction. Synchronized in the new Range Rover, can thus be up to 60 km / h easily inserted while driving. For the V8 models is also still an automatically connecting-ready rear axle differential lock.

Real hardcore but the new wading depth 900 mm water height gives Land Rover for free passage. Thus, the new Range Rover MY 2013 is the official dive king, deep, no other series SUV. This performance is made possible by record a new, integrated into the fender tops intake. The height-adjustable air suspension remains in the system developed by Land Rover interconnected spring elements. Thus, the independent suspension reached yet ordinary entanglement values, even if those on our first test drive subjectively turned out worse than its predecessor. Here, only the measure it will show in the detailed test how effectively the new Range Rover still entangled.

Conclusion:

The Range Rover MY 2013, the details of exactly where its predecessor had shortcomings: it is easier, quicker, more economical. The new sportiness has indeed the refined ride comfort have to back off a bit, but are themselves the new Range Rover is still one of the most comfortable ways of moving, ever. Land Rover it does not compare with some of luxury cars instead of SUVs. It fits. The superior off-road capability, he has still managed to preserve.