2013 Range Rover Sport 7 seats spy pictures

[LiamO]

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[camel_landy]

Hahaha... Shows nicely the cruddy weather we've been having here lately. :angel:

M

[sniegy]

Our news reports have been showing the wonderful weather you guys have enduring, rain, sleet, snow oh & did I mention the RAIN?....

Hope your not effected mate.

Have a great new years.

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[Mike_S]

Mark will have grown webbed hands & feet by now ;)

[camel_landy]

Quack!

[Celtoid]

Doesn't the 8 speed remove the need for stick shifter? I thought it had some sort of pop-up dial thingy?

[gghaggis]

Doesn't the 8 speed remove the need for stick shifter? I thought it had some sort of pop-up dial thingy?

The New Sport is reverting to a gearstick, plus paddles.

Cheers,

Gordon

[Celtoid]

The New Sport is reverting to a gearstick, plus paddles.

Cheers,

Gordon

OK, thanks. That didn't seem to take long.....reaction to customer input I wonder?

Cheers,

Kev.

[camel_landy]

...reaction to customer input I wonder?

Sort of... ;)

M

[Celtoid]

Sort of... ;)

M

I've often wondered about the practicality or safety of the knob set up....I'm sure once you got used to it, it would be OK.

However, I keep remembering a beach water crossing that I did several years ago. The water from the creek wasn't too deep but was hooting along due to all the inclement weather at the time. I had seen other 4WDs cross so figured that it was easy enough to do but noted that they applied a bit more welly than you would normally. The concern of the water flow undercutting the wheels as you cross seemed the obvious reason for this approach.

I drove through at a constant but relatively quick pace, which pushed water over my bonnet. The D4 crossed with no issue.

The LC behind me decided to cross at more regular and sedate pace....well at least when he was in a fwd gear....LOL!!! I watched him high-tail it back out in reverse and then cross easily on the second attempt but at twice his original speed.

On his first attempt his wheels started getting dug in straight away and his quick thinking fixed the issue.

I wonder how things would have gone if he had to pop a knob up, select reverse and then push the selector back in...(maybe you can leave it up for sticky situations???).

I've been on the cusp of being bogged in muddy holes before and the rocking back and forth technique got me free.....how easy would that be without a stick shifter I wonder?

[gghaggis]

The "knob" doesn't retract whilst driving, so you can select Reverse, Sport whenever required. It only retracts in the Park position when the engine is switched off.

As you said, one gets used to it quite quickly.

Cheers,

Gordon

[camel_landy]

I wonder how things would have gone if he had to pop a knob up, select reverse and then push the selector back in...(maybe you can leave it up for sticky situations???).

I've been on the cusp of being bogged in muddy holes before and the rocking back and forth technique got me free.....how easy would that be without a stick shifter I wonder?

As has been mentioned, the rotary selector is always up, so this would not be an issue. The problems come when you're not used to the paddle-shifters and you have some amount of turn on the steering... This turn means that the shifters are not where you expect them to be and you have to think about which paddle is which!!

IMO - Paddle & stick give you the best of both worlds.

M

[SBD4]

As has been mentioned, the rotary selector is always up, so this would not be an issue. The problems come when you're not used to the paddle-shifters and you have some amount of turn on the steering... This turn means that the shifters are not where you expect them to be and you have to think about which paddle is which!!

IMO - Paddle & stick give you the best of both worlds.

M

I completely agree with that!

[Celtoid]

Almost fell over yesterday....my D4 was in getting the brakes serviced and Austral gave me a Metallic Black ZF Jaguar as a loner.....:D

Very nice car....

And now I know what the Pop-Up transmission selector and paddles feel like to use.

It was pretty easy to acclimatise but did hit the paddles a few times by accident....as well as finding myself reaching for a shifter that wasn't there.

Geez, that 8 speed is so smooth.....you couldn't feel the changes at all.

[Celtoid]

Make that XF, with an 8 speed ZF....:D