The fuel price increases have people looking for ways to save money, including reports recently of high-end vehicle users resorting to regular gas in their cars (not always with a great success rate) in order to save their increasing fuel bills.

But some specialist companies are offering another solution. For around £100,000 companies such as Liberty Electric will give you a Range Rover with a completely converted battery-driven engine. Zero emissions and a readily available form of fuel for the life of the vehicle - for those with the cash it may be worth the initial expense. However, as has always been the case with this form of engine, the availability of charging stations in your area will make or break the deal.

Besides, this deal with Liberty Electric is sold out for 2008 - so it appears that enough people to justify this expensive conversion have already ordered their emission-free Range Rover.

Land Rover will celebrate its 60th anniversary this year. The company reached a high point of over 200,000 vehicles sold in 2007, over 17% more than the year before.

Range Rover Sport, the pride of the company, has proved to be a luxurious and well equipped vehicle. The impressive interior covers a 4,2 litre powerful engine. It also has leather seats for passengers’ comfort, a rear-view camera and DVD players, a 14-speaker sound system, a heated steering wheel and lots more features.

Not only does the vehicle look impressive, it’s also safe with its electronic pressure distribution, gradient descent control and a four channel ABS.

What more could you want? Even though the Range Rover Sport is a big vehicle, it’s incredibly easy to drive and manoeuvre. It drives smoothly and is very spacious, accommodating not only the weekly shop, but much more besides.

The Range Rover Sport TDV8 has won 4×4 Australia Magazine’s prestigious 4WD of the Year Award for 2008. Land Rover dominated this year’s awards with 3 vehicles in the top 4 positions.

Land Rover has now won the 4WD of the Year award three out of the last four years, further cementing Land Rover’s reputation as the world’s leading manufacturer of 4WDs.

Dean Mellor, editor of 4×4 Australia Magazine, praised the Range Rover Sport for its breadth of capability and technology, “It’s the whole package this vehicle, it’s absolutely amazing both on road and off road. The technology in this vehicle is like nothing else…it drives like a car on the road but it’s still very economical”.

The big surprise was the Land Rover Defender, a highly specialised 4WD, finishing a close second. The Range Rover Vogue TDV8 completed Land Rover’s dominance in the awards with 4th place.

2007 really has been a busy and exciting year for the Land Rover brand, with record sales globally. The Range Rover Sport, and in particular the new TDV8 diesel engine, has been a major part of this success. (more…)

The year starts with a new Range Rover for sale, the TDV8. The new model features, among other things, four-zone aircon, climate control windscreen and automatic rain and headlight sensing.
What’s more, extra leather upholstery, more stowage space and wood trim have been added to the new model, along with improvements to the graphics on the touch screen and instruments.

To suit more tastes, a new interior color (Storm) and two exteriors colors (Alaska White and Lucerne Green) are available.

Last year brought a 20% bigger sale than 2006. John Edwards, Managing Director of Land Rover UK, thinks it is due to introduction of TDV8 diesel engine. The new model, apart from the mentioned changes and improvements, will also feature fuel economy.
“Most Range Rover customers who would previously have bought a V8 petrol now choose a TDV8 instead, which offers petrol-like refinement but with 32% better fuel economy.” Edwards adds.
A carbon offsetting programme of 45,000 miles is included in on-the road price.

Prices of the new models vary from £55,100 for TDV8 HSE to £74,900 for V8 Vogue Supercharged SE.