Land Rover is dead... Long live land rover!

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Originally Posted by gromit

The quality control comes down to Land Rover themselves so hopefully they recruit new staff and don't re-located any QC staff from the UK !


Colin

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i hear you Colin..

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Originally Posted by akovach

Gromit. You hit the nail on the head. Marketing determines the names used and that's why we have, for example, so many variants on the Range Rover. Everyone wants to be seen in a Range Rover. Land Rover have, in my opinion, stuffed the naming of models, to the point that people are confused. For example, why would you call the replacement of the Freelander 2 a Discovery Sport?? Crazy. People were saying that they wouldn't buy a Discovery because it's so small, not realizing that it's supposed to be a "sportier" (which is absolutely a disgrace to call such a car a sport) smaller version of the "normal" Discovery.
Factories market their cars in any way to sell cars. Most of JLR's customers are not on this forum as they aren't Land Rover enthusiasts. They buy a Land Rover, mostly, because it's seen as one of the brands to be in. If JLR relied on people like us on the forum, they would have been broke decades ago.

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Maybe it should have been the Range Rover Defender ...........

Colin

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Originally Posted by gromit

Maybe it should have been the Range Rover Defender ...........

Colin

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Probably,it has more in common with a RR,than a RR has in common with an Epoke.

It's going to be a range, not just one vehicle. We already know a Defender Sport is coming.

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Originally Posted by akovach

Gromit. You hit the nail on the head. Marketing determines the names used and that's why we have, for example, so many variants on the Range Rover. Everyone wants to be seen in a Range Rover. Land Rover have, in my opinion, stuffed the naming of models, to the point that people are confused. For example, why would you call the replacement of the Freelander 2 a Discovery Sport?? Crazy. People were saying that they wouldn't buy a Discovery because it's so small, not realizing that it's supposed to be a "sportier" (which is absolutely a disgrace to call such a car a sport) smaller version of the "normal" Discovery.
Factories market their cars in any way to sell cars. Most of JLR's customers are not on this forum as they aren't Land Rover enthusiasts. They buy a Land Rover, mostly, because it's seen as one of the brands to be in. If JLR relied on people like us on the forum, they would have been broke decades ago.

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Bit of a sweeping statement, that you are obviously not an enthusiast if you are not on this forum. Plenty of JLR owners (and enthusiasts) who have different priorities than expressing their opinions on the net. But I agree that JLR would be broke listening across forums. Glad they don't. m

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

It's going to be a range, not just one vehicle. We already know a Defender Sport is coming.

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Don’t reckon it’ll be a sport....I think everybody is referring the to 90 as a sport which is is wildly different to the RR Sport and Disco Sport.

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

It's going to be a range, not just one vehicle. We already know a Defender Sport is coming.

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which will probably be a ute version of the Disco Sport(or some other confabulated lunacy)!

[bigrolf]