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Range Rover Autobiography Ultimate Edition

Wondering who makes the ultimate luxury sport-utility vehicle? Wonder no longer, because it's here. Called the Range Rover Autobiography Ultimate Edition, it's essentially a Rolls-Royce in SUV form.

The biggest upgrade comes inside the first-class cabin, where the individual rear seats are separated by a console with integrated drinks cooler and aluminum tray tables, with iPads mounted to the front seatbacks. The cargo bay has been trimmed with a teak deck like a megayacht's, and of course the leather and wood trim is all top-choice.

Outside is a dark grille, door handles color-keyed to the body (which is available with a couple of new paint options), along with the requisite special badging and unique 20-inch alloys, and buyers can choose from either the 4.4-liter V8 turbodiesel or the 5.0-liter supercharged V8. Pricing has yet to be announced, but the Autobiography Ultimate Edition is set to be unveiled at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show.

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Range Rover Evoque: Now with 5-Door Versatility

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Land Rover unveiled the new Range Rover Evoque just a couple of months ago. But while it cuts a sleek profile, its three-door body-style won't be everyone's cup of tea. And so the British purveyor of luxury sport-utility vehicles has augmented the range with a more conventional five-door version as well.

The more versatile Evoque is otherwise essentially unchanged from the three-door version. 150 and 240-horsepower engines are available, in either economic front-wheel drive – a Land Rover first – or the company's go-anywhere all-wheel drive, complete with Land Rover Terrain Response. Only in the five-door version offers easier access to the rear seats for better passenger and cargo carrying capabilities. The Evoque hits 160 markets around the world beginning summer 2011.

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Millionth Range Rover Donated to Charity

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After forty years of production, Land Rover has produced their landmark millionth Range Rover, and is donating it for a charity auction in London. The milestone luxury SUV in question – a top-of-the-line Range Rover Vogue Autobiography edition in black – has a retail value in excess of £85,000.

Celebrity automotive journalist Jeremy Clarkson will take possession on the charity's behalf during the Top Gear Live show at Earls Court, after which the vehicle will be put up for auction to benefit wounded soldiers through the Help for Heroes foundation which Clarkson represents and for whom the vehicle is expected to raise in excess of £100,000.

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Luxist Drives the 2010 Range Rover, Feeling of Royalty Still Hasn't Worn Off

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When the winds of model-year change blew on Land Rover's 2010 lineup, they hit the LR3 at hurricane speeds forceful enough to turn it into the LR4. A shade of velocity lost, they still rocked enough impact to reshape the Range Rover Sport into the faster and highly finessed luxo-beast we'd been pining for since we drove it in 2007.

By the time those gales rushed over the clamshell bonnet of the Range Rover they had slowed considerably, leaving a mild-by-comparison alteration of the top-tier landscape. That doesn't mean it wasn't a potent alteration, though: heightened sensations from innovations like the TFT dashboard and vastly increased motivation from the new Jaguar-derived 5.0-liter V8 helped make the total package a little bit better everywhere. And when you're already standing on the peak, every little bit counts for a lot.

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Range Rover Updated for 2011

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The letters RR are intimately familiar to connoisseurs of British luxury automobiles. But while they may correlate to two different vehicles, they both share a great deal. Luxury, status, heritage and fine craftsmanship define both. We're talking, of course, about Rolls-Royce and Range Rover. Each tops its respective class, but only the Range Rover has that go-anywhere capability. And for the upcoming model year, the latter has undergone a series of noteworthy revisions.

At the top of the list is a new 4.4-liter V8 turbo-diesel replacing the old 3.6-liter unit. Along with the supercharged V8 model, it is now coupled to a new 8-speed automatic transmission. Land Rover has also carried out a series of cosmetic updates, upgrades to the Terrain Response system and has released a new Autobiography Black edition to commemorate the Range Rover's 40th anniversary. The diesel engine remains excluded from the North American line-up, but the other upgrades are expected to make their way across the Atlantic in short order.

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Land Rover Announces First-Ever Front-Wheel Drive and Hybrid Models

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Production 2011 Land Rover LRX rendering – Click above to enlarge

When you think of Land Rover, it's likely that scenes of bushwacking and overland travels spring to mind, and perhaps more recently, some of the most luxurious sport utility vehicles in the world. But the times, they are a'changing, and Land Rover needs to improve the efficiency of its brand of vehicles just the same as every other automaker the world over.

Hence, it should probably come as little surprise that the famous British marque has announced both its first-ever front-wheel drive model and its first-ever production hybrid. It remains to be seen whether or not the automaker is able to bake any off-road capabilities into its upcoming small Range Rover, which most of the world knows as the LRX.

Land Rover says the front-wheel-drive compact Range Rover will go on sale in 2011 and claims it will be the lightest and most fuel efficient vehicle the company has ever offered. Following two years later will be a hybrid version of the same vehicle that will pair a 3.0-liter diesel engine with an eight-speed automatic transmission and a large electric motor capable of powering the vehicle for 20 miles using no fossil fuels at all.

[Source: Land Rover]

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Land Rover Confirms Small Range Rover for Production

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Production Land Rover LRX rendering - Click above to enlarge

Land Rover has today confirmed what we've long expected – that the popular LRX Concept from the 2008 edition of the Detroit Auto Show is headed for production. The British-born automaker doesn't actually say the new 'ute will be called the LRX when it hits the market in 2011, but it definitely will be wearing the Range Rover moniker and will therefore likely be marketed as a premium vehicle.

No details are given about the coupelike SUV's powertrain, but Land Rover does say the new vehicle "will be the smallest, lightest and most efficient vehicle the company has ever produced." Previous reports have suggested the production LRX will share underpinnings with the LR2 (a.k.a. the Freelander) and will be offered with an optional all-wheel drive hybrid powertrain that may use an electric motor to power the rear wheels and a transverse engine underhood driving the front wheels.

Judging from the lone rendering released with this announcement, the basic shape from the LRX Concept should survive mostly intact, perhaps gaining a slightly more pronounced front fascia to go along with the production-necessary external door handles. Expect more details to filter out at the beginning of 2010, but in the meantime, click past the break for the press release.

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