Land Rover is weighing offering even more options when it comes to adventure in its luxury SUVs.
Last December at the the 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show, Land Rover hinted it was considering offering 2-door SUV as a flagship vehicle, perhaps on a limited run for starters.
It’s no wonder our Land Rover technicians look forward to the Los Angeles Auto Show every year. California may be a long way from Cincinnati, but every year the show drops rumours that can be heard around the world.
Here’s the 2-door SUV rumour in a nutshell, as reported by Drive:
“Speaking to Australian media at the 2017 Los Angeles motor show, where Land Rover launched its revised family of Range Rover and Range Rover Sport models, the company’s Chief Creative Officer and head designer, Gerry McGovern, hinted that the company’s Special Vehicles Operations could be tasked to develop a limited-run of bespoke vehicles in the future, just as it done for sister brand Jaguar with models such as the F-Type-based Project 7 and the XE Project 8 super sedan that recently set a new four-door lap record around the famed Nurburgring circuit.”
Rumours, Rumours Everywhere
That doesn’t mean that the rumoured Road Rover sedan program is off the engineering drawing table.
“Don’t think for a minute we’re not going to do what you’re alluding to,” McGovern told Drive. “I can’t say when, but there are opportunities. We have proven that with Range Rover, with the ability to offer derivations of these established vehicles, and offer them in a way that resonates with people in a relevant way. At a certain price point everybody rationalises and asks why did I spend that much money on that thing – so it has to have integrity.
“The good thing about SVO, it is a self-funding business within a business, so there are opportunities to do things within that operation like that,” McGovern continued. “It doesn’t necessarily have to be in the mainstream. It could be a small volume run that lends itself to that.”
That’s plenty of juicy tidbits to leave the mechanics on the repair floor of our Cincinnati auto shop drooling in anticipation. We love Land Rovers, repairing them, driving them, and especially rocketing them into off road adventure. We like ‘em caked in mud on every inch of the axel.
