UK Land Rover sales in September are expected to be close to 10,000 units, the highest ever recorded in a month and easily overtaking the 9,328 registrations in the previous best September 2005.

With year-to-date registrations in the UK and globally hitting new targets the company is on course for a record profit for parent Ford, which has been considering the 4×4 company’s sale along with Jaguar. The likelihood of a sale will be confirmed by the end of the year.

Paying a premium price for a sport utility gets you the beauty of a Range Rover, a powerful supercharged 400-horsepower V-8 engine and a luxuriously comfortable ride, whether on the highway or in the woods.

Twenty-inch wheels, a sparkling grille and an adjustable terrain-response system that tunes the four-wheel drive to what’s on the ground under the almost 11-inch clearance are also part of the package.

The Range Rover is not just a pretty face, however, because it has a maximum towing capacity of about 7,700 pounds.

Brookwells 25 year open Day was a great success. Thank you to all our customers who came along, it was a lovely atmosphere and the bacon butties went down very well!!

We had many vehicles on display spanning over 60 years of Landrover!, thankyou to all our customers who brought their vehicles along, it was much appreciated and a point of interest for many visitors on the day.Â

A BIG thank you to all our suppliers who donated for our Prize draw. Geoff Turner from Plymouth was the lucky winner of the Star prize the Britpart DB8000 winch.

Land Rover has announced the first steps in its programme to make its vehicles more sustainable.
From early 2009, a stop-start system will be fitted as standard to all Freelander 2 TD4 manual vehicles. The system turns off the engine when the vehicle is stationary and automatically restarts it when the driver is ready to move off, cutting CO2 emissions by 7% from 194 g/km to 179 g/km. Land Rover describes this system as “innovative”, but BMW already fits it to the four-cylinder 1 Series and 3 Series.

From the start, Land Rover’s littlest sport utility vehicle, the LR2 impressed us. The LR2 was co-developed alongside other Ford products from the EU-CD platform, which has been used in many vehicles, the majority of which are strictly for on-road driving. They range from the Ford Mondeo and S-Max family cars to the Volvo S80, and other forthcoming cars. Nevertheless, the LR2 has a look that’s distinctively Land Rover-ish, and has driving dynamics that make us smile. It might not be as quick as an Acura RDX, as stylish as Infiniti’s new EX crossover or as enjoyable to drive as BMW’s X3, but it’s an excellent blend of the aforementioned categories and can actually go off-road.