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custom cars

$500,000 Range Stormer Replica For Sale, Perfect For When You Ain't Found Shit In The Desert

Range Rover Sport too dull for you? Too many doors? Not in line with your posh Dubai lifestyle? Need something to comb the desert in? Good news friend, West Coast Customs Dubai is reproducing the Range Stormer concept in street legal form. Better news is there's one on sale at Alwan's used cars for a cool $500,000. It seems a member of the Dubai royal family thought the concept was so fly he had West Coast Customs US build him one out of a regular old boring Range Rover Sport. WCC decided maybe there'd be a few more so why not task the Dubai branch to make a couple more. Head down to crazy Al's if you can't live without a two door Stormer of your own.


[AutoTrader Dubai (no, really) via LandRoverChronicles]

3:40 PM on Wed Jun 4 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
2,413 views, 30 comments

Latest by layabout: A chav would buy this after a lotto win,that or a footballer,they both have the same poor taste. more »

down on the street bonus edition

Down On The Oslo Street, Part 2: Britain, Italy, Detroit, And More!

Remember the Oslo Citröens that Warpig photographed for us? Just as the protagonist of Knut Hamsun's Hunger wandered Oslo looking for food, Warpig roams the same streets 120 years later- with eyes as sharp as two knife points- in search of interesting old street-parked vehicles to share with us. We've got Vauxhalls, a Fiat 500, a Land Rover, a Morgan, and plenty more in the huge gallery that awaits you after the jump!

3:00 PM on Thu May 29 2008
By Murilee Martin
933 views, 19 comments

Latest by FuzzyPlushroom: LOL super! more »

alternative energy

Electric Range Rover With Volt-Like Range Extender On The Way, Blind Children Weep

"The Liberty Electric Range Rover will drive cleanly and quietly around roads and cities, free of tax, congestion and parking charges, making less environmental impact than even the smallest, most fuel-efficient car, yet still offering the comfort and security of a luxury 4x4," claims Barry Shrier, the Liberty's founder. In addition to the batteries and electric motor — which purportedly give a 200-mile range and performance in line with the gasoline version — Shrier is planning to install a small generator as a range extender a lá the no-green-for-you-till-2011 Chevy Volt. More »

10:40 AM on Wed May 21 2008
By Wes Siler
1,123 views, 16 comments

Latest by LandofMinos, a p' p' piece from here and a p' p' piece from there: Sorry not Clint George, It was Chad Taylor's Landie. I always get those two guys mixed up. More embarrassingly I even mix their names up when talking to them. Here's a link to see the results of CHAD'S Landie off. Sorry Chad more »

spy photos

2009 Range Rover Sport Facelift?

At first glance, this may appear to be just another box-on-wheels Range Rover, but this is actually supposed to be the 2009 Range Rover Sport. Look closely and you'll notice the front end has been subtly reshaped to feel a bit more like the recent Land Rover LRX Concept. Yawn. So they re-drew a few lines, what's the big deal? According to the spies, the 2009 model will be available with a new 5.0-liter V8. More »

Spy Photos

8:30 AM on Tue May 6 2008
By Mark Arnold
7,349 views, 18 comments

sultan of brunei

A Garage Fit For a King: The Best Of The Sultan Of Brunei's Amazing Car Collection

Ferrari wagon-izations and hypercars bathed in magnetizing yellow are just a couple hints the Sultan of Brunei is perhaps the most Jalopnik head of state in the whole world. Like us, he seems to have a maddening obsession with odd cars. However, what sets him apart is his seemingly unending pot of money with which to manifest his wildest automotive fantasies. Although word on the streets of Bandar Seri Begawan is his fiscal fortunes have depleted as of late, before he sold off some of his assets, he and his family created what may be the most impressive car collection the world has ever seen. Although we already knew this, it wasn't until we were surfing the pages of our fave super car photo site that we realized the sheer height of awesome the collection truly achieved. Not only did they gather production cars, they commissioned the creation of entirely new models from manufacturers like Ferrari, Aston Martin, and Bentley. Hit the jump as we walk you through the crème de' le' crème of the massive collection of automotive exotica found in the garage of the Sultan of Brunei. More »

Feature

12:30 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Mark Arnold
21,691 views, 92 comments

Latest by donkeyassman: The rolls has a backseat big enough to preform an abortion in more »

auto branding adventures

Range Rover Eyewear Is Flat, Boxy

Today's episode of Auto Branding Adventures sees a new challenger join the fray: Land Rover. Land Rover has gone and slapped its name on 40 different models of sunglasses and eye wear. Like traditional Land Rover design, the sunglasses are pretty flat and boxy. More »

5:15 PM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Travis Hudson
919 views, 6 comments

commenter of the day

Commenter Of The Day: Little Buddha Edition

Remember the great Bernardo Bertolucci's 1993 flick Little Buddha? It was way strange, like stranger even that the third reel of The Sheltering Sky and of course featured Keanu Reeves as Siddhartha well before he ascended to crypto-Jesus übermensch status in The Matrix. All of which is merely background for our mention of the Hindu/Buddhist concept of karma, which cropped up among the Jalopnik commenter today, and in fact distinguished COTD. Read on, to see how the wheel turns. More »

6:30 PM on Thu Mar 13 2008
By Matthew DeBord
1,039 views, 40 comments

Latest by dculberson: @1300ccsoffury: Except for those parts that aren't aluminum. And those rust with a passion. more »

offbeat news

Probably Not The Best Place To Park Your Range Rover

It wasn't until moving to the Great Lakes that we realized how horrible parking in the winter can be. Sure, there's the benefit of being able to parallel park in the ice by driving next to a spot and pushing it in manually. But those are the rare fun occasions. Snow is okay to deal with because you can sweep it away or flatten it. Ice is the real culprit. It's so hard to tell what's the curb and what's an ice mound, if you park on top of it you have to worry about sliding into someone else, and it gets black and disgusting. Oh, and as you'll see in the video, it conceals things.(h/t to Ω βгåғғ™) [Snotr]

2:30 PM on Thu Mar 13 2008
By Matt Hardigree
10,755 views, 53 comments

Latest by egojab: @Boter: It appears to be a very sharp drop off, and the street surface is slightly above the Range Rover's bumper, there is no way he could just get traction and drive out. There would need to be some more »

news

Forbes Autos Drops Top Ten Luxury Cars for the Ladies

Forbes Autos is up to the list-making again, giving us the top ten list of luxe cars with the primary driver being a woman. While not as sexy as the men's list, the vehicles are more practical and comfortable, and packed with a lot more Volvos. Interesting to note that our favorite Saturn designer, Miss Vicki Vlachakis is quoted in the story about quality, "I think women have such a good eye for detail, the attention to detail is really important on the interior; on all of the key driving interfaces such as the gauges, shifter area, steering wheel and seats." Yeah, what she said. We accidentally put Vicki's gallery below the fold, along with the Forbes list, cause after all, who the heck wants to sit through Forbes' boring traffic baiting when you can sit through ours? More »

10:15 AM on Mon Jan 28 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
3,083 views, 27 comments

Latest by superbmtsub: I've only seen guys drive the IS350 and 250s around this part of the world. Women usually stick to their gigantic "luxury" SUVs. more »

offbeat news

Another Google Street View Crash

It's darn near an epidemic. As unlikely as it may seem, we have captured pictures of another Google Street View accident. Not only is this one more dramatic, it features a much healthier dollop of schadenfreude. Where before we had a random car crash, here we have a double luxo-SUV smash-up featuring the fancy pants Audi Q7 and Landie's Range Rover outside of the Phoenix Country Club. Feel that? That's stereotype humor rocking your socks off. Take solice in that there is still an element of 'WTF?'. Somehow that Range Rover finished the action upside down, and considering the extent of the damage we're surprised to see the occupant dutifully taking down insurance info. This is making us wonder how many Street View accidents there are out there.[Google Maps]

2:00 PM on Tue Jan 8 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
39,886 views, 38 comments

Latest by KaiserM715: This is hilarious, especially considering to total dollar value of cars involved. (maybe they should be driving CARS instead....) more »

tuners

Arden Range Rover AR7: More Rover Less Ranger

The lads and ladies at Arden have taken expertise gained from years of tuning Jaguars and Land Rovers and put it to work on the latest Range Rover. The result is the Range Rover AR7, an SUV more at home on track than off road. Under the hood, the 4.4-liter supercharged V8 gets increased to 4.5 liters, good for 480 hp and 480 lb-ft of torque. This power increase results in a top speed of around 150 mph with a 0-62 mph time of 6.5 seconds. Though the press release says "elegance, discreet sportiness and understatement have always been the characteristics of British cars" the proper ride is easily differentiated from its stock counterparts by the modified skirts, new grille, revised bumpers and gigantic 23" Sportline wheels. To get all this mass to stop in time to avoid hitting a commoner, Arden has installed ventilated 6-piston and 4-piston brakes on the front and rear, respectively. Full press release below the jump.

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12:15 PM on Wed Dec 19 2007
By Matt Hardigree
1,056 views, 8 comments

Latest by Stoatmaster: @sirwebster: Ah - I was correcting my spelling, not urging you to spend your wages. Sorry for any misunderstanding. Anyway, they have cut-out paper Bowlers on the Bowler website. True. more »

off-road

Land Rover on the Range: Driving the Bowler Nemesis

What would happen if you took the running gear from a Range Rover Sport, crossed it with the running gear from a Land Rover Defender? You'd get the off-road rallying version of a Land Rover Sport. It's a vehicle that reminds us of the Range Stormer of 2004 concept, only with less pretense and more actual gruntability. It's the product of Bowler Off-Road, an off-road racing manufacturer from Derbyshire, best known for its Wildcat off-road rally car, which won the privateer category in the past two Dakar Rallies. The two-seater shares 40 percent of its parts with the Range Rover Sport, but is is shorter and lower, and rides on a purpose-built spaceframe chassis. The body is but a shell of glass-reinforced polyurethane. Under the bonnet (that's hood), there's the familiar 4.2-liter V8, converted to run on E85 bio-ethanol, computer-remapped to achieve 510 horsepower, instead of the stock 385. It's a Dakar bargain at £120,000, and the company says a roadgoing version is on the way. Lock up your cactuses. [Car]

11:15 AM on Mon Oct 8 2007
By Mike Spinelli
2,945 views, 13 comments

Latest by X-Zambian: I just love the wail of the blower when the beast is coming towards your, and the loud baritone roar as it departs. I suspect that the sound recording doesn't match real life, as there is no way in hell a more »

limited means not too many

Limited! Edition! 2008 Range Rover Sport LE!

For those who want their supercharged SUV with a few tablespoons more luuuuuxury, Range Rover says peep the LE. Only 250 of the tweaked models will make the rounds, each with "flush-fitting front and rear bumpers," an extended rear roof spoiler, body-colored lower side panels, a new rear exhaust treatment, tread strips and 20-inch Stormer wheels. Inside, there's a cold climate option, adaptive front lighting, premium leather, hand-polished oak wooden trim and a center console cooler box. Carpet mats, adaptive cruise control and an AV system for rear-seat passengers are also included. And you thought you had to buy all that stuff in the aftermarket. Psych.
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12:30 PM on Mon Aug 13 2007
By Mike Spinelli
3,445 views, 5 comments

Latest by skierpage: 374g/km CO2. FULR! more »

news

Aluminum Und... Command Seating Position? Range Rover to Get Light

Years ago, just hours before purchasing my first Cherokee, I strolled across the street to the Land Rover dealership. Not that it was within my price range, but the Defender 90 was definately worth thinking about. I read the specs. Then I spoke with the salesman, "Hey, how come this Land Rover weighs half a ton more than a Jeep?" He reached behind the counter. "Here," he said while handing me a 16-ounce lug nut. "This is why." His point? Land Rovers are beefy, heavy, over-engineered muthas. Soon, however, all that will change. Just-Auto is reporting that the next generation Range Rover – due in 2012, just in time for the Mayan Apocalypse – might rely on loads of Aluminum to make their flagship both lighter and greener. And they can borrow the chassis technology from fellow PAG relation Jaguar. How much weight are we talking? About 900 lbs, or under 20% of the ultra-lux SUV's curbage. Are we stoked? A tad, though we'd be much more out of breath if they just bit the bullet and went all carbon fiber. Maybe in 2013. &ndash Jonny Lieberman More »

9:00 AM on Thu May 10 2007
By Jonny Lieberman
911 views, 6 comments

Latest by dculberson: @Vega: Range Rovers have also always had aluminum bodywork. Many people held this up as a good thing, citing corrosion resistance, but ironically it was the use of aluminum that caused much of the Rangie's corrosion problems. The more »

novelties

No One Can Tell Clarkson He's Wrong, Top Gear Is A Battlefield

So what do you get when you mash together BattleField 2 and a segment from Top Gear, the world's most amazingest driving show? How about the most epic parody / homage we've ever seen for any show. The boys from Sir. Community have outdone themselves in this re-make of the smashing clip of the Range Rover Sport vs. Challenger 2 tank. And on that bombshell, get to watching the parody above and the original clip after the jump. [Hat tip to Stephen!]– Ray Wert More »

3:51 PM on Thu Oct 19 2006
By Ray Wert
624 views, 6 comments

Latest by BartMack: Well, you know the bad news is H2 sales will spiral with this out now... but on the up side all the suburbanites will clearly want tanks. Ford!-- paying attention? Another bold move option here-? The F-10,500 Suburban Coup Vehicle more »

news

The Lightness of Land Rover: 2010 Rangie Could See Drastic Weight Savings

If Land Rover's engineers and metallurgists get their way, the next generation Range Rover could shed 1,100 pounds of cold steel. That's the projected weight savings if the company moves to a new, rivet-bonded aluminium monocoque structure for its models, as Autocar reports, which could be likely by 2010. The implications for fuel economy and emissions would be significant, which would give Landie an edge over its competitors in the large-SUV range. Of course, the technology could trickle down to Ford's models if it retains ownership of the bulldogs. Likewise, it could also trickle sideways to Jaguar, which is on a similar path to enlightnessness. – Mike Spinelli More »

1:46 PM on Tue Oct 17 2006
By Mike Spinelli
2,730 views, Comment

custom cars/hot rods: tuners

Going One Better: Arden Further Tunes the Range Rover Sport

It seems like only last year that German tuning house Arden released a kit for the Range Rover Sport. Back then, the numbers were impressive (480hp and 472 lbs-ft). But nowadays we hit the snooze button for anything with less than 500 ponies. So Arden went back to Untergath and returned with the AR6, a Range Rover Sport tuner that produces 520 hp and 502 lbs-ft of torque via a blower kit and stainless-steel sport exhaust. It also comes with beefed-up brakes, a body kit only a footballer could love, 22" wheels and the stance of a sumo. We suppose that's more like it. More »

3:00 AM on Tue Sep 19 2006
By Mike Spinelli
769 views, 6 comments

Latest by SOAZtim: Ford, I mean Land Rover ruining its offroad heritage... more »

custom cars/hot rods: tuners

More Maximum Overfinch: 440hp Range Rover Sport

When one becomes a footballer, some acquisitions are mandatory. On the official checklist, just below "trophy wife with a rhymey stripper name and IQ just under Pi" is a juiced-up Range Rover Sport. And the UK's Overfinch has become the more-or-less official supplier of the latter. The company's Rangies have become somewhat legendary in their home country, and the shop has tooled up to meet the widening demand. Classic Driver recently showed up at Overfinch's Solihull plant to check out one of its tweakers, a custom-blue Sport model with 440 hp. Practice those corner kicks, kids; you too might become a prowd owner (and husband of someone named Chynna St. Claire) someday. More »

8:00 AM on Mon Sep 11 2006
By Mike Spinelli
4,469 views, 3 comments

Latest by Neil Block: Daniel: Probably one of the funniest Clarkson lines on Top Gear, ever. more »

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