Range Rover Fourth Model is Between Evoque and Sport

Range Rover has apparently discovered a hole in its lineup, namely between the baby Evoque and the larger Sport. Top brass are apparently looking at this gap as “white space” which can be pretty much filled with anything they can think of, just as long as it’s a certain size.

Motoring asked Land Rover design director Gerry McGovern if there was demand for such a vehicle. He said "Range Rover has a lot of equity because of product that's truly desirable, and you know with white space I think so.”

McGovern neither confirms nor denies the plan, choosing to simply smile and according to the source let us know there’s definitely more to the story.

Final bit of information he reportedly shared regarded the possible appearance of “something new from Land Rover” at the Frankfurt auto show in September.

The question that seems to go unanswered regards the possible body style it may adopt. Could it be a faux-coupe like the BMW X6 and Mercedes GLE-Coupe?

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2016 Range Rover Sport HST with 380PS

There's already a very hot version of the second-gen Range Rover Sport, the 550PS (542hp) SVR, but Land Rover wants to fill the gaps in its range (pun intended) with a warmer HST model. 

The 2016 Range Rover Sport HST comes with an uprated version of the 3.0-liter supercharged V6 engine (shared with the Jaguar F-Type S) delivering an additional 40PS (40hp) over the existing SE and HSE models at 380PS (375hp). 

We'll have to wait for next week's 2015 New York Auto Show where the new HST special edition will make its world premiere for information on acceleration and top speed figures. 

Land Rover says that it has also made changes to the suspension for "reduced body roll and enhanced agility", with the HST also gaining bigger brakes with 20-inch discs, a single-range transmission and a tweaked version of the Terrain Response set-up. 

Besides the mechanical updates, the HST gets a light makeover on the outside with 21-inch alloy wheels in an exclusive to this model dark sating grey finish, red brake calipers, smoked lights, a rear spoiler, a Santorini Black contrast roof, sculpted body-colored side skirts, additional vent detailing on the bumpers and gloss black trimmings. 

Interior upgrades are said to include two-tone "Oxford" leather seats, all-Ebony door and dash trims, and headliner, together with HST badging, aluminum pedals and Noble-plated paddle shift gear levers on the steering wheel. 

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Land Rover Defender Pick-Up by Kahn Design

Kahn Design’s latest Land Rover Defender project is a wide-body 90 Pick-Up that brings both styling and equipment upgrades compared to the standard model.

The Land Rover Defender 2.4 TDCI 90 Pick Up – Chelsea Wide Track is painted Keswick Green and features front and rear wide wheel arches with exposed bolt apertures, an X-Lander front grille, stainless steel hood and fender vent mesh, full front bumper replacement with integrated lights and shadow chrome headlights.

The truck also sports Chelsea Truck Company wheel covers and optional side steps. 

The Defender rides on a new set of 1939 Defend Retro Dish wheels shod with 275/55/20 tyres, with other exterior tweaks including the toughened mud flaps and a twin cross-hair exhaust system.

Inside, the cabin gets a luxurious ambiance thanks to Sports GTB seats in quilted and perforated leather, leather wrapped instrument binnacle and door cards, as well as trim detailing in soft Alcantara. 

The package is completed by a Kahn billet steering wheel, vented foot pedals in machined aluminum, a Churchill Time Clock and hard-wearing front and rear floor mats.

The Land Rover Defender 2.4 TDCI 90 Pick Up – Chelsea Wide Track is priced at £28,930.

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Range Rover Small Crossover

Picton envisioned the Range Rover Coupe concept as a sub-compact crossover for two passengers with more or less the same ride height as the Evoque but with a much lower roofline that drops at the rear and a shorter body.

Feel free to click the images that follow for a larger view and to share your thoughts on the design study.

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2013 Range Rover Mk4

The new Range Rover will be available in over 170 markets worldwide, with North American customer deliveries scheduled to start in December 2012.

In the UK, Land Rover opened the order books with prices starting at £71,295 for the Range Rover Vogue 3.0L TDV6 rising to £98,395 for the Range Rover Autobiography 5.0L Supercharged.

The lighter (up to 926lbs or 420kg, depending on the model) but also bigger, stronger and more refined fourth generation Range Rover, will be available in Europe with three engines at launch.

These include the 503hp (510PS) 5.0-liter V8 Supercharged petrol and two diesels, the 255hp (258PS) 3.0-litre TDV6 and the 334hp (339PS) 4.4-litre SDV8 engines, all of which are paired to an eight-speed automatic transmission.

With the smaller V6 diesel, the total weight savings over the previous model reach 926lbs / 420kg, while fuel consumption has been reduced by 22 percent to 7.5lt/100km (31.4mpg US or 37.7mpg UK) with CO2 emissions of 196g/km.

In North America, the 2013 Range Rover will be offered with two gasoline engines, a 375hp 5.0-liter naturally-aspirated V8 that offers a 0-60 mph (96km/h) time of 6.5 seconds (0.7-second quicker than the outgoing model), and a 503hp (510PS) 5.0-liter supercharged V8 with a 0-60 mph time of 5.1 seconds (0.8 seconds faster).

Again, both engines are coupled to LR's new eight-speed automatic transmission.

Land Rover also confirmed a new diesel-electric hybrid variant for 2013 in certain European and Asian markets, but not North America.

This model will use Jaguar Land Rover's new hybrid powerplant that links a 3.0-liter V6 turbo diesel to an eight-speed automatic transmission with an integrated electric motor and a lithium-ion battery package. The company claims that the hybrid will deliver CO2 emissions of 169g/km with more details to be released in due time.

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