Review: Land Rover 2011 LR4 - Wired News
Like a racehorse or private plane, requires time and money to properly exercise. Now imagine that you are doing all this in a Land Rover. Landies are used to venture into the world’s dingy parts, often (but not always) with people who smell like money at the helm. If the LR4 looks familiar, that’s because it is. This is what Land Rovers have looked like since the first Bush administration. The LR4 looks like the 2005–2010 LR3 that came before it, which looks like the Land Rover Discovery that came before that (In the rest of the world, the LR4 is simply badged Discovery 4). The LR4, in turn, looks nothing like the Land Rover... The Discovery and LR4 can mostly accomplish the same thing, but with heated seats and adjustable air suspension coddling your tuchus. In bone-stock form, a ‘12 LR4 can drive from Telluride to the top of the world or down Woodward Avenue without breaking a sweat. Land Rovers have long been the mountain goats of the SUV world, and the 2012 LR4 is no different. Although its looks ape those of the LR3, its guts are fresh: A 5. 0-liter, direct-injection, 375-hp V-8 sits under that big clamshell hood, and a new interior has been paired with a revised chassis and updated suspension. Source: www.wired.com
