Range Rover's Successful Second Act?

I enjoyed watching your video very much. My first Range Rover was a second-hand one in 1974 which I sold very quickly as it only did around 12mpg. I vowed never to buy another but relented in 1988 when I bought a new 2.4 VM diesel. Since then I've had a new 2.5 VM diesel, new 1994 and 1998 diesels, a 2002 L322 diesel and latest one a 2013 L405 diesel which has been the best one to date. It does around 30mpg and I've done over 50k miles so far. It might be my last one as I'm now in my 80s Since 1988 I've never regretted buying a Range Rover and have enjoyed every moment of the driving experience.

And the recent stable success of the Range Rover is why Tata was able to fund the development of the new Land Rover Defender.

Your multi-part history of the Range Rover has been exceptional! I had a Rover/Land Rover parts business in San Diego, California from 1974 to 1986. I got out of that business when I lost total respect for B.L.'s marketing. (A year or so before quitting the Rover business, I approached Chrysler and tried to first get Chrysler to market Land Rover's products in North America; after several months, I changed my tune to having Chrysler buy Land Rover from its then owner, British Aerospace. I was still pushing this in August 1986 when Lee Iacocca wrote to say that Chrysler had given up on buying Land Rover. Mr. Iacocca did not say they were then looking into AMC/Jeep.) It took a few years to realize that Iacocca and Chrysler did the smart thing. Jeep's became better over a period of several years (or more). AMC got the chop---as well it should have. Watching your videos would push me into looking into the purchase of a new Range Rover or possibly the latest generation Defender, if it weren't for the fact that I moved from where I was living in Utah to the small island of Molokai in Hawaii in March 2019. Every one of your videos I've seen on YouTube has been fabulous. You always do your homework! I very much appreciate your knowledge of the vehicles and corporations you "lecture" us on. It is a great pleasure listening to you talk. You'd be one hell of a great car salesman had you decided to go into sales! Well done! Andy McKane, Maunaloa, Molokai, 8 May 2022.

This one's up there with the 911, Capri and Interceptor. I went in one in 1970, brand new, must've been one of the first one's off the line. It belonged to an Uncle who ran a hotel in Torquay. Faulty took me and my Dad out in it to get some eggs from a farm in Dartmoor, it was beige of course. Showing it off, he drove up onto a grass verge at one point. When we reached the entrance to the farm Faulty let Dad have a go, expecting him to drive up the track. To Faulty's horror, Dad didn't, instead he drove it straight across a ploughed field much to the amusement of the farm hands. The car was plastered in mud.

On my 5th Range Rover and loved every one. Can't understand comments about reliability. Apart from servicing and parts, I've had 100% reliability: No.1 (P38) did 154,000 mls, No.2 (P38) did 127,000 mls, No. 3 (L322) did 184,000 mls, no 4 (L322) did 123,000 mls and No. 5 (L405) has done 87,000 mls and is halfway... No.3 was my favourite - BMW V8 running on LPG! Sad to see it go.

Jag/Range Rover is/was one of those car makers that I was curious about regarding their future in a post-real-Top-Gear world. Like them or hate them, but those three guys did more for the wider knowledge/interest in of British* car makers that anything/anyone else. It’s good to know that such an iconic brand is still going strong and has been one of the few success stories of the British car industry. *regardless of who owns them, some car makers will always be British.

As a Texan who drives nothing but full size pickup trucks, I love your channel. British cars fascinate me, and your videos are packed full of entertaining facts.

This was your best marque history yet! I really enjoyed how comprehensive it was as well as how well you explained the complicated owner and model aspects. Well done!

The new velar and f-pace is my favorite, velar is stunning and f-pace can handle way better than you think possible for a big suv.

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Love Range Rover since i was in the 6th grade ( 1982 ). I have finally , got me one back in 2013 and love it . Working on my 2nd one !

Owned a 2011 range rover sport excellent car fast supremely comfortable brilliant off road and luxurious far better built than the x6 I owned previously and far better to drive and it was totally reliable, the problems come when folk buy them third hand and can't afford to service and maintain them even older range rovers are reliable if come with full service history and they still look ace the rolex watch of the car world

So this is the reason that Apple doesn’t come with bold new designs for their iMac, MacBooks and iPhone, being afraid of pitchfork wielding mobs of Apple Fans.

I had a Range Rover for less than a year. Within those 6 months. I spent almost $10K in repairs. I was in my 20's at the time and didn't know much about car back then.

Ah, the story of my automotive life from 1990 to 2015. You forgot to mention that BMW stripped the company, they stripped out Solihull engineering blocks computer hard drives, kept the mini, as they didn’t know how to build either front wheel drive or 4x4, plus they took the plans for Rovers medium size montego/maestro replacement, the RDX60 which became BMWs 1 series. They only saw JLR as a development place they could poach the British designs

Good one. Enjoyed that and nice to see Tata is enjoying success where others have failed. Miss the fact that there is no Land Rover anymore tho. Worthy opponent to the Jeep CJ series

V enjoyable and informative as ever. Remember that Top Gear when the 3 presenters had to buy a cheap 4WD in Bolivia, and Clarksons Range Rover towed everyone else out of the mire.

JLR Products are not perfect, sure, But im so glad that they are both still around today, Not only that but after test driving them i understand why people live with them, They give so much emotion in driving unlike any other brand, and for most people who dont want to change their car every 3 years, any service costs are worth the little extra you generally pay, If you are in the UK they are not expensive to maintain, just average, meanwhile you will consistently get overcharged on smaller cars, And if you look on the used market the depreciation is high, and thats good if you find a nice one with all the extras and you want to save some cash, Thats how i own a XE S right now.

1:47 they cut the seen, but I'm sure that was an instant regret.