Why don't Land Rover build a..

Why don't they make a 4x4 with less ground clearance and better handling for on road use? I've just bought an 04 Subaru forester as I don't go off-road any more but still want the 4WD for winter roads especially here in the highlands. It's not a huge market right now I guess but with a land rover badge it would sell well?

landroverjack said:

Why don't they make a 4x4 with less ground clearance and better handling for on road use? I've just bought an 04 Subaru forester as I don't go off-road any more but still want the 4WD for winter roads especially here in the highlands. It's not a huge market right now I guess but with a land rover badge it would sell well?

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:doh: freelander/gaylander, evoque

Evoque?

A Freelander one would fit the bill wouldn't it?

Wouldnt that ave been rovers bag ? 4x4 rover 200 sorta wagon ?

think he means like a large 4x4 estate, 407 size but with a LR badge on it etc

Cos all the others on the market are basically jacked up cars. All subarus are 4x4 anyway.

Volvo allroad etc are just cars with add ons.

Land Rover were lucky Volvo never made the old estate into a 4 x 4. They would have lost all the market from the horsey folk

Could get more stuff in one of those than a Land Rover or a van

landroverjack said:

Why don't they make a 4x4 with less ground clearance and better handling for on road use? I've just bought an 04 Subaru forester as I don't go off-road any more but still want the 4WD for winter roads especially here in the highlands. It's not a huge market right now I guess but with a land rover badge it would sell well?

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I cant really see your point.
you want a lower riding 4X4
but dont want a landrover?
so you buy a scoobydoo.

surely you answered your own question.


maybe this will give you food for thought
Ten greenest small 4x4s | Parkers

whats the point in a green 4x4 :doh: I saw a new bluemotion toureg V6 tdi today….. wtf ?

Makes the owners feel bit better about their horrendous fuel economy

Dr_evil said:

whats the point in a green 4x4 :doh: I saw a new bluemotion toureg V6 tdi today….. wtf ?

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I think most series and Defenders are 'green' 4x4s.
Most of them are still running and if not their parts are recycled and most of those parts are made from recycled materials.

I doubt we'll see many 30 year old Touregs knocking about in the future, bluemotion or not.

Jack Lets be honest your 110 must have been handling like a boat when I last saw it it needed suspension bushes and whats that 2 or more years ago???? Anything compared to that should handle like its on rails LOL!

dodgyrob said:

I think most series and Defenders are 'green' 4x4s.
Most of them are still running and if not their parts are recycled and most of those parts are made from recycled materials.

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And half full of vegetable oil

Dr_evil said:

whats the point in a green 4x4 :doh: I saw a new bluemotion toureg V6 tdi today….. wtf ?

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food for thought comes in many versions.
the op wants a lowriding 4X4 but dont want a landrover.

the words green & car tax go hand in hand.

I believe you can get a 4X4 mini now ??

you could have got/maybe still get, an old style fiat panda sissley

sierra,
scorpio,
cavalier,
vectra
and,
and,
and.....

Land Rover can't afford to make a popular car/4x4. Since the destruction of the mass uk car industry (longbridge is going to be a housing estate with names like allegro drive etc) they must use their relatively small manufacturing capacity to make high price/profit vehicles like the RR and Evoques, they're flat out just satisfying that. A car type vehicle would just sell too well but need a new factory £bazillions.

I wouldn't object to a LR / Jag crossover again, seeing as they're the same company, with a Jag car. I had an x type which had 4 wheel drive developed off the back of the freelander system with ird and viscous coupling, it was awesome in the snow.

They deleted the viscous coupling after 3 years tho, just put a diff in it, too many warranty problems. Later x types could get stranded then if one wheel got on ice, trick was to dab brakes to get it moving. Very underrated car and not a Mondeo with a different body as popular lore would have you believe (they did share 18% of components but a lot of that was stuff like air con components, wiper motors, rear calipers etc, though the diesels used a whole mondeo front subframe and drivetrain and weren't 4wd).

That said LR have said there's new models coming so there you go.

why compete with a mass market when they have their own market to sell in...

The Ferkin BoB said:

why compete with a mass market when they have their own market to sell in...

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In a couple of years I won't be surprised to see a vehicle, that previously would have been badged as a Tata, sporting a Land Rover badge and being sold in the Indian market, at a premium.

. . . . . or have I just described the Evoque !!!

I'm disappointed I thought this was gonna be why don't land rover build a reliable car