<![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> This delighted 1995 Land Rover owner loves the new look. Much sleeker, less boxy-ugly. Sweet interior. Nice mix of Land-Rover-typical we-don't-care-about-environment... attitude with new techno-geek look. If it runs with the reliability and comfort I've come to know and love about Land Rover, I'm its next buyer when I turn in my retiring creature...

smokes

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> Hate it. Although the interior is stylish, the car, the lines, the IFS/IRS is not typical Land Rover classlessness.
Land Rover died in 1999 with the introduction of the Discovery Series 2. Since that time Rover has gotten away from what it stood for over 60-years.
Although I think the newer Range Rovers are just pure sex, I really have hopes that the rugged Defender would walk the streets of the USA again. The Defender is just a simple, solid axle, coil sprung, classless automobile that reflects the roots of what Land Rover was.
This is Land Rover to a "T". [www.youtube.com]
and this is an example of classless [www.expeditionexchange.com]
Lets just hope Tata grabs the wheel here and pulls the Rover tradition back into alignment.

1hank1

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> Looks like a RRSport after an elephant sat on the front and somebody cut out the B to C pillar section. Consider how dilluted the XF was, I don't have high hope for what this will finally look like.

Interior looks high tech, but the words 'British' and 'electronics' give me enough hebigebies(?) that I shudder at the things that will go wrong with this. Just looking at LR's reliability ratings tell me this is not the company I will buy leading edge tech from.

Also, do that many people really want a British luxified Ford Kuga? Especially when the American Luxury, Zoom-Zoom and female-friendly versions come out. This seems like Ford's last kidney punch to LR on their way out the door.

Daga

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> It reminds me of the Range Rover Series I 3-Doors that we were never lucky enough to have here in the US. A modern take on a classic idea! I like it!

SethyT

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> I just hate it when concept cars never turn out to be production cars. I think the only car that came closest to its concept was Infinity FX 35/45 - a car I very much regret getting rid of....

cynep

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> I like it(then again I almost like every concept out there)

The-Simpsons-Rule!!

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> @Aaron Martin-Colby: It may be a little sci-fi, but it's still clearly Land Rover's take on sci-fi - think of a Range Rover filtered through "Search and Destroy" ("Look out honey, cause I'm using technology!").

I like this, but I'm not sure exactly what it is - a Sport version of the LR2?

Maymar is convinced M.C. Escher engineered his car

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> What EUROMOBILE said. The front overhang looks rad, but you can't offroad with it. And I don't know about the interior. Do you have to wear a Ster Fleet uniform to drive it?

DoctorNine makes tires squeal in terror

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> @al_beaton: That should have been COTD.

@bmoredlj: Aren't you forgetting the Defender?

Anyway, getting back to the point:

DO NOT WANT!

From overhead, this looked like a miniature version of the Range Stormer concept, but when you see the whole thing, it's nowhere near as impressive.

The front end isn't too bad, but it would have been better with a deeper grille and headlamps. It also wouldn't hurt it to have a bit more ground clearance and a deeper colour-coded chin spoiler.

The rest of it kind of loses the plot. The rising beltline is very un-Land Rover and in combination with the plunging roofline, it looks too heavily chopped. A slightly longer rear overhang in combination with a deep colour-coded rear valance and skirts would have made it look less tippy-toed and more planted; like the Range Stormer.

Also, if it doesn't have genuine off-road-ability then they've totally missed the mark.

The interior is extremely spiffy though.

Euromobile

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> The center console seems like a strange place to put the gas cap, or is that LR iDrive. If BMW can't do it, how is the Land Rover system going to work!@

CaffiendCA

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> Looks like the Lexus RX hybrid got it on with a Civic R

b33g33

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> @Rust-MyEnemy: I'll have a nice highland single malt neat, please.

NovaloadMissesPolar

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> I like the HUD style of the gages. FUN!

Dr.Danger, I run the Death Star

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> The purest, best-looking Land Rover on the market isn't even a Rover anymore; it's the timeless Merc Gelandewagen. The LRX just looks...Japanese.

bmoredlj

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> The current Range Rover has a lovely interior, but as far as the great unwashed majority on this septic isle are concerned, it's about as welcome as a radioactive paedophile in the basement of an orphans' home.

Please, Land Rover, spend a little dough on putting something under the hood that doesn't spew forth more CO2 than Drax power station, then maybe I can buy one again without every tree-hugging gimp for miles around pelting it with rocks.

al_beaton

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> I hope they soften the edges and ditch the Star Trek interior. Leave that to Acura. I don't think it fits Land Rover's personality of restrained British elegance with a transfer case.

Aaron Martin-Colby

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> @FLB: Yep. Premier Auto Group concept interiors are usually great, but I really think this one is moving things on a bit.

And ooooooh, a 2008 Lagonda. What would that be like? Oh dear. I may have to have a little lie down.

Rust-MyEnemy is stll out there!

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> great interior..

i like the huge LCD gauges

stevecmh

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> Cool integration of the iPhone into the dash.

Fitty7lax

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> Isn't that a Ford Edge? Doesn't matter, I want one.

Broncoskip

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> Somehow I think commonly affordable will never show up in any review.
I do wish sometimes that concept cars/interiors could make it to production.

GreatSunJester

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> @Rust-MyEnemy: It has an elegance about it, doesn't it? It's close to what I imagine a 2007-designed Aston Martin Lagonda's interior would be like.

FLB

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> If the interior of the production car looks anything like this, I'm buying every single Jalop commenter a drink.

Rust-MyEnemy is stll out there!

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Land Rover LRX Concept]]> I'm just looking at the driver's dash thinking, "Shields up, Captain?" The interior is gorgeous.

CARBOMB

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