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2010 Land Rover Range Rover

All-new version excels with capability and luxury. edited by Jim McCraw

Walk Around

Careful examination of the 2010 Range Rover will reveal that, while it looks exactly like a Range Rover should, the entire front end, hood, grille, fenders, lamps, air intakes, side vents, mirrors, front and rear LED lamps and bumpers, have been made much sleeker and more modern.

The new grille has three bars of perforated aluminum instead of two. Both the side vents and taillamps use triple-stripe LED turn indicators as well. Fender flares are wider, and now integrated into the steel fenders rather than tacked on. The Range Rover has the shortest possible front and rear overhangs to maintain its awesome off-road clearances.

Interior

2010 Land Rover Range Rover

The interior design of the new 2010 Range Rover is a great leap forward over the black plastic utilitarian interiors that were a staple of the brand for years.

To start with, Range Rover has an industry-first 12-inch-wide TFT screen in place of the usual instrument cluster, a screen that displays the tach, speedo and other gauges virtually, and enables the gauges to be moved around on the screen for more convenient off-road operation. It's the brightest, clearest, most interesting and most versatile instrument and information display in the business, and will almost certainly be copied by others soon.

In addition to all the usual controls, the Terrain Response system, controlled by a click-wheel on the console, allows the driver to select among six chassis setups, depending on the terrain being traversed. New settings are available for sand driving and rock crawling. Height control allows the driver to lower the body of the Range Rover for easy entry of passengers or raise it for off-road clearance. A third control allows for locking the center and rear differentials for demanding off-road conditions or icy on-road driving. There is a separate switch for Hill Descent Control, the system that restricts downhill speed to 2 mph on any grade without touching the brakes. In any off-road mode, a set of icons is displayed on the new TFT screen showing the front tire steering angle and the locked/unlocked differential positions, so the driver always knows what's what when driving off-road.

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