Land Rover’s New 4.4-Liter Diesel V-8 Still Not Cleared For U.S. Sale, Could Come in 2014.

Passenger-vehicle-grade diesel engines continue to be at a stalemate in the United States, with the ever-stringent emissions limits mandated by our Environmental Protection Agency snuffing the life out of globally available diesel engines before they even make it to our shores. Land Rover’s new 4.4-liter diesel V-8, which can be found in the British firm’s 2011 Range Rover, meets Euro5 emissions standards but is unable to pass the requisite tests in the U.S. Our current 2010 standards are reportedly the equivalent of Europe’s Euro6 standards, which don’t go into effect until 2014 on the Old Continent. Barring any significant alterations to future EPA standards, Land Rover insiders have told Autocar the oil-burning 4.4-liter V-8 could cross the Atlantic then.

The Baskerville Challenge 2010 is coming soon! Organised by the Wye And Welsh Land Rover Club and taking place in Powys from the 28th to 30th of August, this is definitely one to attend.

The camp site opens on Friday at noon. The event will include:

Saturday – CCVT, TYRO and Entertainment
Sunday – RTV, TYRO and Entertainment
Monday – TYRO, TIME TRIAL.
Prize givings in the bar.

There will be a possibility to use the swimming pool as it will be available at all times.

You can stay at the caravan or camping site, or in the Baskerville Hall Hotel Clyro. Click here http://www.baskervillehall.co.uk/ for info about the hotel.

The new Range Rover Evoque has entered its final phase of testing, with hundreds of prototype models dispatched around the globe for trial in the toughest climates and conditions.

And Land Rover is making no secret of the operation - its design team has fitted ten of the prototypes with funky camouflage wraps, meant to introduce the new car to ten key cities worldwide.

These unmissable vehicles will be spotted in London, New York, Sao Paulo, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Berlin, Sydney, Shanghai and Moscow. But they are just a small proportion of the hundreds of pre-production cars that will be rigorously tested over millions of miles to ensure the Evoque surpasses the highest standards of quality and reliability when it goes on sale in summer 2011.

Land Rover has sort of introduced the sixth vehicle in its range, the small Evoque, by releasing some details, only one photograph and saying we’ll have to wait for the Paris Motor Show late September for more.

But the single picture shows that, as expected, the two-door vehicle closely follows the lines of the 2008 LRX concept.

“After a positive reception worldwide, the natural step for the business was to turn the LRX concept car into reality,” said Gerry McGovern, Land Rover’s design director. “We have stayed true to our word and delivered a car that completely represents the spirit of the LRX.”

Land Rover has unveiled its most fuel-efficient Range Rover ever, a new 4.4-litre 8-speed auto diesel.

On sale from late September, the ‘super diesel’ will see Range Rover delivering over 30mpg for the first time said managing director Phil Popham. Its Range Rover Sport 3.0 V6 model already delivers 30.7mpg.

Replacing a 3.6-litre model, the new engine reduces CO2 emissions by 14% from 294g/km to 253g/km. The 5.0-litre supercharged LR-V8 stays as part of the range.

The carmaker has tweaked styling on the Range Rover and introduced an exterior design pack in a choice of eight colours and five new alloy wheel designs.

Land Rover has undertaken a far-reaching update of the Range Rover. The two most significant changes are the adoption of a much more powerful diesel engine and a new eight-speed automatic gearbox.

Top car for Towing award
All the winners revealed
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Kia recalls Cee’d and PicantoStability control gets cheaperFifteen million cars low on oilLive lunchtime Q&A sessionThe UK-made Land Rover Discovery has been named the best towcar 2010 in the annual Towcar Awards, a coalition between experts from Practical Caravan, The Camping and Caravanning Club and What Car?.

Practical Caravan, in association with The Camping and Caravanning Club and What Car?, hitched up 41 cars with caravans in their quest to find the best towing cars for 2010 to help holidaymakers make the right choice this year.

Now so ubiquitous as to merit scarcely a second glance, the Range Rover firmly enters middle-age next week when it celebrates its 40th birthday.

Launched on June 17, 1970 the Range Rover was revolutionary in its day; the first luxury 4×4 as good off the road as on it.

Relatively spartan by today’s standards - with vinyl seat trim and moulded rubber flooring - it is now seen as a key milestone in the development of the SUV (Sports Utility Vehicle) and today’s versions are packed with leather upholstery, wood veneer, thick carpets and a host of high-tech driver aids.

Until June, 1970, there were several brands of 4×4 that delivered serious off-road capability. There were also many luxurious sedans capable of ferrying passengers across continents in style. But Land Rover’s Range Rover was the first to marry the two ideas into a vehicle that could do both equally well. That simple, and, in retrospect, somewhat obvious idea has led the Range Rover on to 40 years of production as of June 17, and spawned a whole field of luxury SUVs.

Auto Express bags spy shots of the baby Range Rover in public for the first time

Land Rover’s family album for 2010 is complete!

autoexpress.co.uk has got the first undisguised images of the eagerly anticipated Compact Range Rover and the first pictures of the new, facelifted Land Rover Freelander.

Lightly disguised with a psychedelic paint job, these world first shots of the Range Rover reveal just how faithful to the design of the original Land Rover LRX concept car the new Range Rover will be.